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Many Happy Returns
So. We drove 10,439 miles from my driveway and back to my driveway. I made it home Sunday night, about midnight. Sunday morning, I tried to help mom with some computer stuff, got her a ticket for a flight to Boston (as if five weeks on the road isn’t enough!), which took a while cuz…
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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.…
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Last stop
We are cozy in our little log cabin, with a fire going, and some wine. About 14 stops ago mom asked for a Chunky candy bar, and I haven’t seen one anywhere. Until tonight, when I went into the cannabis shop for some Christmas presents, and there it was, sitting among some other obscure candies.…
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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…
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Good Choices
We’ve been trying to eat up the miles, but have had a few nice interludes. We left Elk City without exploring it, hoping to get to Little Rock quickly. The miles flew by until lunch time, when I pulled into Checotah, OK. There was a place called June’s, staffed by teenagers or twenty somethings, I…
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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…
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High Plains Drifting
We made it to Elk City, Oklahoma. The last three hours of driving were in the dark. We left the Earthship to go to the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, stopping at the Gorge on the way. There were many vendors in the parking lot, and I found a great, super soft, double sided Navaho…
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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…
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Back on Mars
We thought we were leaving the Grand Canyon, but it didnt end. We were going east, towards the Four Corners, on rte 64. We kept seeing turnouts for views, and like moths to a flame, pulled over to take yet more pictures of the layered, colored rocks. There were a few, Lipan point, Moran point,…
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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…