Day 2 of the road trip and we're still talking to each other! We did about 450 miles yesterday from Sacramento to Death Valley and about 150 today to Las Vegas. Friday, MaY 29, 2009 The drive over 50 to South Lake Tahoe and then over the Monitor Pass through Markleeville was gorgeous with the high alpine meadows, craggy peaks...and being pretty much the only car on the road at times. Ah, the joys of off season retirement travel! With Steve's back we're being careful about stopping every couple of hours to stretch, eat, relax and so the day passed very [View Full Entry]

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My memory bank is working overtime today remembering the road trips of my youth. My mother was a high school English teacher with the summers off. Our summers in the 50's and 60's - for my mother, my sister Claire and myself - were filled with road trips all over the Northeast, visiting friends and family, and exploring new places. Getting ready was a multi day process. In an era before clothes dryers you had to be sure that you left an extra day to do the laundry in case it was raining outside and you couldn't hang the laundry out. [View Full Entry]

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The countdown begins...4 more days to the start of the road trip. Steve and I are negotiating all the "stuff" we need to bring. He says you know you're getting older when it takes longer to organize your pills than to pack your bag for a trip! Well, at least good living through chemistry is keeping us going. Lauren's room looks like a staging area for an invasion...perhaps that's what we're doing. This is a trip that we've thought about for so long it's hard to believe that it's here. I remember two years ago in Maine thinking that I had [View Full Entry]

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