Tag: United States
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Week #9 ~ Recap
1106 miles, 2 countries, 2 provinces, 1 state, 1 national park, 12.3 miles on the bike, and 3 lobsters consumed. OVER $599.72. Week 9 was the week we blew up our budget. Oops! It wasn’t total irresponsibility—although I would be lying if I didn’t admit some of it was. It was also the time…
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Early morning hours
It’s the early morning hours when I miss home the most. I wake up for what seems like the fourth or fifth time because I’m hot again or my back aches from another strange bed. What I miss is not necessarily my own physical bed—that mattress certainly had it’s own issues—but the familiarity of my…
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Week # 8 ~ Recap
678 miles, 10 family members, 6 more oysters, 2 great lakes, 2 major cities, 2 states, 2 countries, 1 Province, 1 BIRTHDAY, 1 state park, 1 more city that hosted a Winter Olympics, and we were $321 UNDER budget. How do you fall in love with the week you just had ~ some of which…
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City of Big shoulders, Windy City, 2nd City, Chi-town…. whatever you wanna call it, it’s a fabulous place to visit!
When we talk about this trip folks say things like “You HAVE to go to…”, or “I loved……. and you don’t want to miss it!” and other proclamations about places to travel. We diligently write them down knowing that everyone can’t love the same place, so maybe we’ll like it but maybe we won’t necessarily…
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Oh give me a home….or….the road as therapist….
When you’re travelling like we are you have a lot of time to think. Time that would otherwise be spent on chores at home or socializing or preparing for rehearsal or working or just avoiding your every day anxieties in general. Who could have predicted that I would be a total crankster when I get…
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Week #7 ~ Recap
1728 miles (no, that is not a typo). 5 states, 2 air b&bs, 1 friend and her sister, 1 National Park, 1 state park, 40+ shooting stars, 1 bar with karaoke, currently $380 over budget for the month. Driving, driving, driving, driving…..and more driving. Getting across the plains from Montana to Chicago is far but…
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In Search of Big Skies
Montana is the first place I had ever heard the term “Big Sky”. Growing up on the East Coast, the horizon was usually blocked by so many trees, it never occurred to me to consider it as anything more than a strip above the tree tops. When I moved to Denver, Colorado over 20 years…
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Week #6 ~ Recap
650 miles, 3 states, 2 days with old friends in Spokane, 2 days with Erin’s cousin in Missoula and 1 state park, $389.66 UNDER budget. I don’t know if you can tell, but our mileage total was a little lower this week. After spending so many nights in Banff we realised a slower pace for…
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Summer Fruit and Miss Oolala
Days 36 – 41 This past week we got to visit dear friends Cathy and Lizzy Beachland and their adorable boys Fynn (a.k.a. Fynnlandia) and Camryn (a.k.a. Camzilla, Camburger, and O Camada) at their home in Spokane. The Beachlands took us out to dinner and to Green Bluff where we picked peaches and nectarines and…
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Packing pains
I’m pretty sure Marla and I are not divergent in our views on packing. She is 100% accurate that not a day passes where both of us realize at some point that the one thing that we need is definitely packed at the bottom of a box on the bottom of boxes. That alone is…