Category: Travel

I wrote this post last June but I was saving it until I got my other New York trip posts ready to publish. Still hasn’t happened. Maybe it never will. In the name of doing what you can and not worrying about the rest, I’m publishing this post. Bet you didn’t know there was a…

A few weeks ago, Ma and I headed to sunny Phoenix for her birthday. We left Wednesday as soon as I finished work, stopped for the night in Vegas, and traveled the rest of the way Thursday. The original plan was to leave Thursday morning from Vegas and be in Phoenix by early afternoon. Check…

A couple of weekends ago was a three-day weekend. You all know what that means: road trip! This time Pa came along for the ride. This was most excellent for me because that meant Pa did a lot of the driving which meant I had time to paint my toenails perfect, San Diego pink to…

I’ve been practicing the art of road trip snacks for as long as I can remember. I packed pretty much perfectly for Phoenix. This is what I took: carrot sticks celery sticks cherry tomatoes cheese sticks boiled eggs yogurt triscuits several pieces of homemade bread peanut butter apples almonds these cookies I was quite pleased…

I didn’t work yesterday. That meant a three-day weekend. The Ma had a rental car because someone ran into her and her car needed fixing. Rental car paid for by someone else? Three-day weekend? There’s only one possible outcome when two such factors are put into the same equation. Road trip! We thought about the…

These lovely ladies and I have been buds for about two decades now. They’ve been a significant presence in nearly every part of my life. We’ve gone through elementary-age, parent-supervised sleepovers, to walking ‘off-campus’ (across the street) for lunch in Junior High cause we were just that cool, to boys and dates in high school,…

This is how I spent last week. Don’t worry. I didn’t fall in. I went with my parents, my very pregnant sister, the Big Brother and his two oldest girls, the Middle Brother and his two oldest girls, my cousin and his cute wife, and my uncle. We went to Zions, the Grand Canyon, and…