It’s Monday afternoon, and as I write this we are flying down route Rt. 66 (now called I-15) with the air conditioner pushed to its very limit. It’s 108 degrees just outside of Baker, CA and we’re on our way to L.A., passing through the edge of Death Valley. Death as in nothing grows here. …
As I write, it’s Friday afternoon 7/20/2007 and we’re driving through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, heading toward Utah.It’s difficult to write, though, not only because the views are stunning up here at 10,000 feet, but also because the narrow roads are snaking back and forth through the valleys and are making me queasy.More about …
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I’m sitting in a hotel room in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We arrived a couple hours ago and just came back from eating tacos and hot green and red chili. But I’ll blog about that once we’ve finished our time here. Over the past few days we were in Oklahoma and Amarillo, TX, so I’ll …
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What is it about Texas?Sure, it’s big.Hot too.So hot and humid that sometimes I can barely stand it.Still, there’s something about this state that sets it apart.Wide, wide highways, state flags flown just as high as old glory (Aren’t state flags usually flown a little lower than the U.S. flags?Is it just me?), and enormous …
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MARK: Today I had help from Lucy, age 8, with today’s update. I asked her to talk about our stays in Bryan and Austin, TX while I typed what she said. Full disclosure – I took what she said and changed the order of some sentences so that it goes in chronological order. Otherwise, though, …
Today I share the blogging with my son, Evan, age nine, who earlier today wrote an update of our time in the deep south (see below). Evan’s comments will be in a bigger font. We just arrived in Bryan, Texas a moment ago, so I don’t have much to say about Texas yet except that …
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I’m typing in the air conditioned comfort of an old, high-ceilinged, civil-war-style house in downtown Atlanta, GA — have you ever seen Gone With the Wind? It’s like that, only instead of Rhett Butler, it’s just us inside. The house belongs to our friends Ayesha and Dave, but they’re not here either–coincidentally, their already-planned vacation …
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