Archive for the ‘US Travel’ Category

Weather, weather, weather

That’s all they’re talking about out here. It’s still snowing. I drove to Vancouver, WA (near Portland) from Seattle on Saturday and had to drive about 40 mph the last half of the trip because the roads were snowy and slick. The normal almost 3 hr trip took 4.5 hrs. It reminded me of driving [...]

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Winter in Chi-town

Yikes – look at Chicago a couple of days ago (compliments of Stacy). She shot these photos from windows in our apartment. The red tree is in our backyard. It looks so pleasant and beautiful. I’m just glad to be looking at them through photos and not from the window – hehe!

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Sympathy card from Hen

On the trip from Chicago to Seattle, my dad and I stopped in Moorhead, MN (near Fargo, ND) to visit my grandma for a couple of days. She has recently been in declining health and moved from her apartment into a nursing home. It was difficult to visit her, not only to see her dependent [...]

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Little Poo on the Prairie

This was at a rest stop at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. Clean up after your dogs AND horses! I left my horse at home. The valley is rugged like the Bad Lands – it’s pretty in a desolate sort of way. No where to hide if someone had a gun. Maybe [...]

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120 bucks

I know it’s not right, but I love my car. From Chicago all the way to Seattle, the trip only cost about $120 – wow! It’s a Prius and gets about 45 miles per gallon, but I have to say that I got lucky because the price of gas went down right before my dad [...]

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