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South Dakota
It’s been a long day– 14.5 hours on the road. Needless to say, our stops have been short. We have enjoyed talking, reading, listening to audio books, working puzzles and watching the scenery as we drove. Since it’s still technically winter, the landscape is mostly gray and brown and bare. But the sky was beautiful in western South Dakota late…
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Road Trip
It’s been over two years since we’ve been on a cross-country road trip, so we’ve been looking forward to this one for awhile, even though it’s going to be a lot of miles in a short time. We got off to a later start than we had hoped yesterday evening. We planned to drive for several hours after we all…
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Celebrating
The day of our anniversary last week was too full of scheduled activities for much celebrating. That’s the way it happens sometimes, so Lyle and I were tentatively planning to “do something” together on Saturday if he didn’t have to work. On Thursday morning he IMed me: “I don’t suppose you want to go to the Seattle car show?” The…
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Labor Day Camping Trip
We camped at beautiful Priest Lake for the Labor Day weekend. We didn’t actually end up staying at the campsite much this time. Lyle had planned out a full itinerary of Geocaches in the area, so we did a lot of exploring. It’s such a gorgeous area, so that was a perfect plan– and the weather cooperated nicely. Here’s the…
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Holiday Getaway
We enjoyed a camping trip over the long weekend. Our friends, the B family, joined us for part of the time. They had never been camping before… nor had they been geocaching. We were happy to introduce them to the fun! One of the geocaches took us up a very long, bumpy road to the top of a mountain. It…
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There and Back Again
And so I guess you’re probably waiting to hear how my trip home was, aren’t you? After my oh-so-colorful experience of taking the Greyhound bus to Seattle (and then on to Tacoma) on Thursday, I can’t say I was especially looking forward to repeating the experience on Sunday. I was to catch the bus at 8:00 a.m. in Tacoma and…
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The Wheels on the Bus
Even though I am quite well-traveled, I had never taken a bus trip before. You see, Lyle had traveled across the country to college, from California to Indiana, back in the 1980s and he said it wouldn’t be safe for a woman to travel that way for a long distance. He’s always been willing to drive me anywhere I have…
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A Man and His Truck
It’s a nice sunny day (for mid-February) and I heard Lyle putzing around out in the garage, so I decided to go out and snap a few pictures of whatever he was doing. He grinned at me. “Are you going to blog about me again?” he said. “Why, I hadn’t thought about it. I guess I could. I haven’t blogged…
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Anniversary Trip Wrap-Up
We are home from our 25th anniversary trip. It was truly a “second honeymoon” in that we didn’t do a thing we didn’t feel like doing… just relaxing, sight-seeing, and enjoying being together. It was so wonderful to be able to get away for a few days. Above is a picture of the lane leading to the bed-and-breakfast where we…
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Cape Flattery Trail
We hiked to the “most northwest corner of the continental United States” today. (Does that count as an “uttermost part” of the earth? If not, what is an uttermost part?) The hike was about 3 miles round trip, and the views were spectacular. It was an absolutely beautiful day for November. I fully expected the coast to be fogged in,…
