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Category: road trip

  • 2020-06-26 Take Back the City Tour: Day 12.944 – Enjoying the Moment

    2020-06-26 Take Back the City Tour: Day 12.944 – Enjoying the Moment

    Today is almost over. The more time my daughter and I spend alone together, the more we come to understand each other better. I mean, we live together but sometimes, we are too busy just getting through each day that we don’t even really talk and that’s a shame. Tonight she told me she was…

  • 2020-06-26 Take Back the City Tour: Day 12 – The Quest for Ben and Jerry’s

    2020-06-26 Take Back the City Tour: Day 12 – The Quest for Ben and Jerry’s

    My daughter and I have different styles for vacations and road trips. Or perhaps years of experience has shaped my style into being more rigid and regimented. At this juncture, I think it’s important to note that sometimes life is better when you let go of what you have learned and just accept the day…

  • 2020-06-25 Take Back the City Tour: Day 9 and 10 – Look!.. A Llama

    2020-06-25 Take Back the City Tour: Day 9 and 10 – Look!.. A Llama

    What do llamas and road trips across Nebraska have in common?… They are both great at injecting interest into a story. Yesterday was a mighty long, but satisfying day. I woke up in my own bed as usual and did the morning routine but there was no time for the treadmill as I had to…

  • 2020-04-16 Lottery Ticket Happiness

    2020-04-16 Lottery Ticket Happiness

    Every time I drive west across Nebraska on I-80 I’m full of hope and excitement about what’s to come. If I’m driving west on that long stretch of boring interstate I’m driving away from home and toward something fun and different, people I love and mountains I marvel. I know that soon I will be…

  • 2020-03-15 Out With the Old, In With the New

    2020-03-15 Out With the Old, In With the New

    I’m briefly interrupting the current SugarCookie Series to write the Sunday Day Trip Status with a hint of realization and a pinch of actual stats. Where to start? An interesting thing happened when I opened this note, started to type, and realized the date. March 15th. The Ides!! Usually as this day approaches I think…

  • 2019-10-12 Great Day’s and Girls Only Getaways

    2019-10-12 Great Day’s and Girls Only Getaways

    I ended my post a few days ago with “Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Great.” And indeed it was and how did I know that? How? On Wednesday evening when I was walking the treadmill and thinking and writing I was sort of in a sour mood as I had been running around all day and did…

  • 2019-05-23 Nebraska Road Trip Days 3 and 4 and Done

    2019-05-23 Nebraska Road Trip Days 3 and 4 and Done

    After a few days of the sky closing in around us with no sunrise or sunset to speak about, driving east under a blue sky was a welcome change. Two days ago we woke up in Alliance Nebraska where there was a layer of snow quickly melting into mush on the pavement. That morning we…

  • 2019-05-22 Nebraska Road Trip Day 2 – Cody and Toadstool and Carhenge, Oh My!

    2019-05-22 Nebraska Road Trip Day 2 – Cody and Toadstool and Carhenge, Oh My!

    We started our day yesterday in Valentine and, upon checking the forecast for the day and our destinations, decided it was best to make a stop at the local Shopko before heading out of town. The store was going out of business and so we got winter gloves and hats and long socks at 70%…