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Winter Road Trip: In Arkansas
After two-and-a-half days on the road, we arrived at my parents’ home in northwestern Arkansas early in the afternoon on December 28. We only got to be there two-and-a-half days before heading home again, but we sure packed a lot in. My parents live in the house my grandparents and their younger children built some 40-odd years ago, way back…
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Winter Road Trip: Idaho to Arkansas
Living half-way across the country from my parents makes it hard to get together for holidays. This year we decided it might work. The week between Christmas and New Year’s was a convenient time to close the print shop and it gave us two holidays, one on each end of the trip. We had hoped to leave on Christmas Eve,…
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Flathead Valley
Since we had a long weekend last week Lyle planned a 2-day getaway to Flathead Valley, Montana as my birthday gift. We celebrated Thanksgiving Day (my actual birthday) with family and friends, and then left on Friday for our little trip. As is typical for November, the skies were gray as we drove but the northwestern Montana scenery is still spectacular.…
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A Wyoming Story
Day 22 of our virtual road trip takes us north from Colorado to Wyoming. We have driven across Wyoming many times and spent the night as we passed through several times as well. The main things that are distinctive about Wyoming to me are the wind and the antelope. It seems like it is always windy as we drive across the Wyoming plains……
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A Colorado Story
Day 21 of our virtual road trip takes us southwest from South Dakota to Colorado. We lived in Colorado from January 2014 to May 2016, and we have also visited it several times. For today’s post I’m going to re-share a few of previous posts I’ve written about some of my favorite experiences in Colorado: Pikes Peak The John Wayne Room…
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One Sentence a Day – August
A recap of August in one sentence a day… and a few pictures. Monday, August 1. Porch-sittin’ in the evening has become one of my favorite summer [in]activities. Tuesday, August 2. Played around a little bit with graphic design. Wednesday, August 3. Celebrated Lyle’s birthday with take-out pizza and an evening at home. Thursday, August 4. Sometimes it’s just good…
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Weekend on the Oregon Coast
Something Lyle and I have been looking forward to ever since we moved back to Idaho this spring is our traditional* trip to the Oregon Coast for his birthday. I always have Friday afternoons off, so Lyle took last Friday afternoon off as well and we headed out about 1:00. We live in the panhandle of Idaho, just a few minutes…
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Along the Way
This past weekend Lyle and I made a quick trip to Kansas. And while I consider that drive (between Denver and Wichita) to be one of the most unscenic areas of the country, we did manage to find a few interesting things along the way.On Saturday afternoon my niece, Kendra, and two of her children went for a walk down Main…
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Recent Road Trip #2
When we were in Kansas in December Lyle’s brother and niece told him they wished he was available to help with a building project they are working on for their print shop. They have purchased a new building and plan to move their business later this year. They were needing help with planning the layout, which is something Lyle is…
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Recent Road Trip #1
While our holidays were quiet and simple, we did manage to fit in two weekend road-trips that we thoroughly enjoyed. The first one was the weekend before Christmas. Our destination was my parents’ house in Arkansas to pick up our daughter who had gone home with them after Thanksgiving. It’s a 12-hour drive one-way, so we originally planned to drive…
