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From the Passenger Seat
Views from last week’s road trip… Heading east on I-90. Montana. My drivin’ man. State capitol building. Jefferson City, Missouri. Springtime in the Ozarks.(No doubt the picture would be better had the photographer bothered to roll her window down.) (But it was raining! What can I say?) See the “QT” on the road sign to the right?We like to stop…
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Travel Stats for Tuesday/Wednesday
Continuing this week’s whirlwind travelogue… Time in Missouri with family for Dad Cook’s funeral: not quite 21 hours. Departed Missouri Military Cemetery at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri: 1:45 p.m. CDT on Tuesday. Hours driven: 27.5 Hours slept: 3.5 Miles driven: 1,783 miles [I drove twice coming home for a total of about 200 miles while Lyle slept a little more.…
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Travel Stats for Monday
Departed Sioux Falls, South Dakota: 7:30 a.m. CDT Hours driven: 9.5 Miles driven: 592 Average speed: 62.3 mph Fuel mileage: 35.2 mpg States: South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri (also within spitting distance of Nebraska and Kansas) Time zones: 1 Wildlife spotted: rabbit… cows, horses… oh, wait! Those aren’t wildlife. Never mind. Weather: rain, sunshine Audio book: continuing The Racketeer until the battery…
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Travel Stats for Sunday
Here’s a map of our route for the first part of this week. And because these are the kinds of stats Lyle likes to have a record of… Departed Post Falls, Idaho: 9:00 p.m. PDT Hours driven: 18 Hours slept: 4 Miles driven: 1,200 Average speed (not counting sleep time): 66.7 mph Fuel (not gas) mileage: 34.8 mpg States: Idaho,…
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It’s Snowing…
…near Livingston, Montana. Just flurries. The road is clear and dry. Making good time.
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On the Road Again
My travel season is getting ready to ramp up with several homeschool convention trips in the next two months. Additionally, we have an extra, unexpected trip this week. My father-in-law passed away, so we are getting ready to make a very fast trip to Missouri for the funeral. As usual, I’ll be blogging about our travels along the way, but…
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Just another shade of greige…
Ask me to describe a vehicle and I’m likely to say something like “the blue car” or “the red pickup.” Lyle, on the other hand, can identify at a glance the make and model of practically anything on the road, and often the year. Our girls are pretty good at it, too, having picked it up from their dad. I…
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Travel Fragments
It’s been a busy, productive week. No time on Friday to post fragments… but who says they have to be posted on a Friday, right? I mean, it’s not like I get around to posting fragments every Friday anyway. Today’s fragments are related to travel. Mostly because I doubt you’d be very interested in the nitty-gritty of the workshops I…
