Hell’s Half Acre

Well, crap. I totally forgot to pimp the universive for good kharma. Can you do that? There is a person who shall remain un-named because this person should have the opportunity for privacy, who is related to me but not a child or spouse. This person will have a biopsy on [...]

I’ve been putting off posting for a very long time. I can find so very many things to do so that I simply don’t have the time. Jamie is gone, he didn’t even say goodbye this morning when he left. Ever since we’ve come back tothe US and he has been visiting [...]

I didn’t think the kids would be able to sleep last night, so giddly they were with the excitement of seeing friends and family tomorrow. They all surprised me by jumping into bed as soon as the sun went down; they wanted the morrow to arrive as soon as possible. This morning, after [...]

We had a lovely night camped next to highway 50. We left Eureka at sunset and drove into the horizon still light with the departing sun. The boys found books I’d bought them at the start of the trip and were singing travel songs. The full moon rose behind us; orange and [...]

A quick post of the past week and run; pictures to follow later. Jamie is idling and the kids waiting in the car. We’ll be in the Bay Area tomorrow.

We are “supper-camped” in Eureka, Nevada. We left the campground about 10am but didn’t leave the park until 10:30. As we were coming down from the campground, I noticed a Very Large bird like object at roadside. As we approached it (slowly, as we were descending) it took off. It was [...]

What an incredibly rich day! We pulled in yesterday, and once the kids saw the creek, there was no decision to be made. Bears and rafts (we’d purchased tiny rafts from the river running store in Moab) were found and off they headed to the creek. They didn’t have to go far; [...]

Jamie had wanted to leave the church lot by 7am but I figured he had a wicked fever or was suffering from heatstroke. We don’t open eyelids before 8am, but he wanted a Very Early Start and hoped to be in Reno by the end of the day. That was his problem yesterday; [...]

Well, we somehow managed to extricate ourselves from Arches National Park. It certainly wasn’t easy. We very easily could have spent another week there. We are also on an interstate for the first time since Texas. Enroute from Ft. Davis to El Paso we hit I10 (or was it I40?) for [...]

Today we were packed, hitched up, grey water dumped and ready to go, minus 4 small items. The kids (led by Jesse) really didn’t want to leave. I figured that they needed a day of nothing so we decided to stay another day. Luckilly, the campsite was available. We’re in a [...]