Category Archives: Family

Why did we take the trouble to drive more than 6,000 miles and across at least 14 states during three weeks? I suppose, like Mr. Simon says, we were looking for America, or at least bits of it we don’t normally encounter in our mid-Atlantic lives. We found it in the ever-changing landscape; even in […]

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This has been a blah travel day after a time of glory yesterday. Today: We left Tusayon, AZ just outside Grand Canyon to see Monument Valley and The Four Corners. Kevin felt badly from the time we left – don’t know if he has a stomach bug or what, but it is worse than the […]

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We are in Yellowstone with all of my side of the family for eight days of celebrating my parents’ fifty years of marriage. The only hard part of doing this post is narrowing down the choices of all that has been pretty, happy, funny, and real this week. Pretty The mineral springs and geysers are […]

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Driving across South Dakota is a revelation over and over of unexpected landscape. Just when one is  thinking, “Uh-huh: grass, grass, grass. Dotted cows, dotted cows, dotted cows,” one tops a little rise and finds spread out in all directions these incredible swirl-y, mound-y hills that layer and flatten out and rise again. Then it […]

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Pennsylvania: hills, mountains, trees, hills mountains, trees Ohio: hills, no mountains, trees, open space, shorter hills, still no mountains, fewer trees, more open space Indiana: no hills, no mountains, some trees. I would bike everywhere if I lived here. Illinois: no hills, no mountains, some trees, corn, corn, corn. Oh yes: road construction, road construction, […]

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