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Safe at home!

25 May 2010 by , 1 Comment
Safe at home!

After a long squeeze play. Car’s unloaded and John’s trying to arrange things so David and Mary don’t flip out when they come home to a living room full of his Stuff. Box Score Number of miles driven: A bit over 3100 Start time of game: Wednesday, May 19th, 2010, 9:30 PM Eastern End time [...]

Now it gets beautiful

24 May 2010 by , No Comments
Now it gets beautiful

Yesterday, John and I cruised across Wyoming, which was (in parts) spectacularly beautiful. John reported that when he and his friends, Shelly and Spencer, drove from the Bay Area to Minnesota, they crossed off all the states in between as potential places to live. Except Wyoming. We passed the highest point on I-80 (a mere [...]

Congress needs Funk

21 May 2010 by , No Comments
Congress needs Funk

Said the campaign sign on the opposite side of I-80 as we headed into Iowa. Sadly, we couldn’t find the sign on our side of the highway for a picture. But suffice it to say that John and I nodded our heads in agreement with the sign. [1] We flew out of Michigan, down into [...]

Into the rust belt

21 May 2010 by , No Comments

Yesterday was I-84 west to I-81 south, then a right turn onto I-80 somewhere south of Wilkes-Barre, PA. [1] From there – well, it’s a straight shot .We hit massive traffic tie-ups in western Pennsylvania and throughout Ohio. If the trucks need to roll the ICBMs across this portion of the country any time soon, [...]

All gone to look for America

21 May 2010 by , 7 Comments
All gone to look for America

So as you may know, our younger son John just graduated from Berklee School of Music in Boston. And like a salmon returning to its home creek, John was ready to high-tail it back to the Bay Area (very specifically, The People’s Republic of Berkeley) the moment he had his diploma in hand. It had [...]