Life looks a little different these days. The kids grew up. The nest emptied. I’m still writing about things that happen in between the road, Alaska, family, grief, adventure and figuring out what comes next. REWRITE THIS INTO MY OWN WORDS.
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Just Another Scenic Sunday 12-15-2013
This week we traveled over to Reno, spent two nights at Circus Circus in their mid-week absurdly cheap rooms, then we headed down the 395, eager to get out of the city. We camped two nights and spent three days between Reno and Mohave, landing tonight in a hotel because seriously….we were filthy and tired.…
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Just Another Scenic Sunday 12-18-13
Cousin, Mary….”I dare you to take me out of this sink…” I can’t stop taking pictures of Mary… COUSINS!!!! Bagel and Beezie are SO happy to be be out of the truck!! Booboo…FREE AT LAST! Enjoying the beach, despite the snow! “Put me back in that truck and see what happens…” Mya and her babies……
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Bison Of British Columbia
I’ve actually got nothing funny to say about today…which is good news since that means nothing bad happened. Good for us, bad for entertainment value. It’s late, we drove about 13 hours today through windy, mountainous, freezing, roads and we’re tired. We drove, we ate, we watched me cower behind the truck while a buffalo…
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South of the Border (Canadian That Is…)
We bedded down last night in Tok, Alaska in a highway frontage hotel. If I have learned anything on this trip so far it’s that there is no need for an alarm clock with five kids, three dogs, and two cats who are all used to the silence of the backwoods. Nobody sleeps through hotel…
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Fragments Of Sanity
It was just before noon on a Monday morning, sometime in the fall of 1988, in Phoenix, Arizona. I stood in my pale blue polo shirt behind the counter at Dairy Queen, my breast milk dampening the front of my uniform. My baby girl was somewhere across town in a basement apartment with some sitter…