Some of you are familiar with my series of posts from last summer’s road trip entitled We Went Off. You can go here to start the series and find out a bit about our personal story and why that trip out West was somewhat of a BIG DEAL if you’d like, but the slightly shorter […]
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The Fountain of Starbucks
Recently, I experienced a situation that will live in Island Family infamy. On the tail end of a road trip, I stopped for a late night cup of coffee to keep me awake while I drove. I’d been holding out for a coffee shop, but when it got past ten and I still had quite […]
Where Were We This Week?
Last year, we spent Thanksgiving back at the old island, enjoying this, and doing lots of this. This year, we did things a bit differently. I’m going to give you three clues as to where we spent the better part of Thanksgiving Week. Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Exhibit C: Any guesses? Any guess counts as […]
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We Went Off: The Epilogue (#9)
For earlier parts of our tale, see #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, and #8. I was driving, so I noticed it first, and tried to remember which dashboard light was on as I asked LCB a question that will likely go down in Island Family infamy, “Wait honey, what does that light mean […]
We Went Off: Great Faces, Great Places, and Deep Spaces (#8)
You may want to start with part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, and part seven if you’re new to the series. It would be hard to make our children’s first sighting of Mt. Rushmore more anticlimactic. It was dark, foggy, and rainy when we drove by it that first night, […]
We Went Off: It’s Fun To Stay at the Y-M-C-A (#7)
See part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, and part 6 of this tale for what happened first. 
When he was a child, LCB and his family stayed at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park while attending a conference. LCB had come away with fond memories, so when we […]