We’re within days of reaching home so I was waxing philosophic about our year. Specifically, I’ve been having fun reliving the challenges we’ve had. We had engine trouble (that time when the alternator died and I thought we were going to, too, in Houston), brake trouble (when they caught on fire in Vermont), overheating issues (in...
What did I not get to see that’s still on the list? Oh, I have A LOT answers to that (I’ll start with all of Washington, Oregon and Idaho) but here’s one – the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY. If we hadn’t arrived so late, I would have insisted we pop over to see...
I like old: old places, old music, old movies…. which is probably why I haven’t been able to hear anything in my head but “Oklahoma is the place to be…. Farm life is the life for me…” since we entered the Sooner State. We won’t be here long. Just passing through. I expected prairie and...
In order to see Antelope Canyon, I routed us through Denver thinking that surely the weather would be good by mid-May. As we were heading in that direction, they got 3 feet of snow. Fluke. I wasn’t worried. One of the unexpected benefits of this route was a trip through Monument Valley, AZ and/or UT...
We have now arrived at that part of the movie where morale is in a nosedive. Normally we’re fairly immune to small disasters. In fact, I generally find mishaps charming and funny. However… we’ve taken one too many broadsides and we’re taking on water. Three days ago we were those people… the ones on the side...