Category: Joan

  • Thanksgiving

    We missed a post yesterday. Don’t want to admit it, but I was tired. Can’t imagine why. Left Asheville just after 9 am. That area is so very beautiful. Got into Cleveburg / Mayfield Heights after 6 pm. Still, Chris did all the driving and the unloading. Roads not as crowded as we had feared.…

  • Asheville

    This is the city that we came to first on our way to begin our road trip. Now after almost five weeks, we are here today on our way Wednesday to Thanksgiving at Janet’s. I love it because Paul and I would drive to Venice, FL, and stop here, half way, and have dinner with…

  • Four weeks down. One to Go

    We left Cleveburg October 23. It’s now November 23. How did that happen? So many places, experiences, views. Old “Blue ‘Lightening“ has put on 8,000 miles! We are in Little Rock, AR. Passed the Chisholm Trail and The Sante Fe Trail as well. We aim for Nashville, TN. Tomorrow. It’s been a feast for the…

  • The Taos Earth Ship

    I didn’t know what an earth ship was either. Now I do. It’s fantastic building made whatever way you want to but with materials that won’t harm the earth. Sounds boring. No. Even though solar panels are used, south facing passive solar windows collect heat from the sun and distribute it through the house. A…

  • Grand Canyon

    So aptly named. What other adjective for a canyon bigger than the state of Delaware and the depth of a mile. We started out right by taking a shuttle bus that stops at several places along the rim for knockout views. You could catch a bus every ten or fifteen minutes. We stop at four…

  • Arrived!

    At the Grand Canyon. Can’t see it though. ‘Too dark. Came at five thirty. So we will wait to see it in The morning. We have three days. Left Phoenix this morning after hugs with Janet, Chris’s good friend. Had dinner last night with her and her son who treated us to good food and…

  • I Have no Words

    Or enough, or the right ones. I didn’t want to repeat the WOW. But I think I must . I was going on and on about Mesa Verde. And it was spectacular. Then Yesterday we saw Arches National Park and Christine told you about those wonders. And they were. Amazing. Who could believe what we…

  • Another Wow

    Yesteday was Cortez, Colorado. Now we are in Moab, Utah. But before we got here, We went to Mesa Verde National Park. WOW. I am so glad that Judy Z suggested it. Amazing, incredible, astounding. There is a good web of roads that take you to very interesting archeological Pueblo dwellings as well as museums…

  • Marfa to Santa Fe

    Wow and wow! For all kinds of reasons. One, we’re halfway through our road trip. Two, we keep seeing wonderful things including magnificent desert scenery. Three. We went to Carlsbad Caverns, which we may not have done except that Jim texted, “Hey why don’t you go. It’s on the way.” So there. We left the…

  • Texas

    We are now in our second week of travel. It’s November 6 and we are trying to understand what in the heck happened. Did the USA have a memory lapse? Have voters not been paying attention? Ahh. In Houston we went to the Menil Collection and saw Frank Stella, Clifford Still, Andy Warhol, Max Ernst,…