This month I took a real walkabout, driving out west for several reasons, including booksignings, a master writers’ class and some research/picture gathering for the Elf Clan series. The first week, I gloried in the Adventure of the Road. For the first time in a long while, I had time alone. Miles and miles of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘travel’
11 Jul
Bygones
In the past few months, I’ve come to realize that some phases of my life are past. For good. Up until then, it always seemed like every option was open, like back when I was 10, or 18, or 21, or even 25. One day I’d travel the world. One day I’d be President. One [...]
2 May
A rainy spring day at Niagara Falls
One of “our” Chinese students will be returning home in a few weeks, and we wanted to make sure they got to see Niagara Falls before they went home. We’d cancelled one day earlier in the year for freezing temperatures and really hoped this weekend would be better. Although we had some rain, the sun [...]
12 Jul
The road goes ever on and on
I’m not a person for living in big cities. I often regret missing the opportunities and options for activities and cultural events, especially where the children are concerned. But we can go visit those if we choose, like our visit to Roboworld in Pittsburgh just before we went west. (Being able to touch the Lost [...]
30 Jun
Why o Why Wyoming?
After the stunning day at Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, we continued the magic, as we pressed east into Wyoming’s Bighorn National Forest. The land was every bit as diverse as the website says: Then we also saw this interesting pyramid-looking rock called Copman’s Tomb: No wonder the guy wanted to be buried there–it stands [...]
24 Jun
Letting go
Today I had a plan. We were going to get up, get to point A, continue to point B, and be ready for several other events at yet a third location. But I’ve taken on two other adults for this trip, and I’ve decided I must let go of my Nazi tactics gentle plans. As [...]
23 Jun
Wildlife conservation
Our California mini-visit was so special I’ll be adding a page above, probably after we get home later this week. But this couple of days has been on environmental education, as we’ve come to the Lake Tahoe/Reno area to see B. We finally get a tour of the camp where Sierra Nevada Journeys provides its [...]
20 Jun
California, here I come!
The last push west brought some interesting scenery and some personal revelations. I’d particularly wanted to make some time to travel US 50, the Nevada portion dubbed by Life magazine, “The Loneliest Road in America.” They’re not kidding. More on this in a subsequent post. Part of a story I wrote a few years ago [...]
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