Miss SugarCookie

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2022-02-13 The One About Memory and Time. And Rocks… 🪨

I think about time quite a bit, and about memory too. I think about an hourglass glued to the table; the lyric of a song stuck in my mind for a lifetime. I can’t escape the curve of it, the gravity, the sensation of something you can’t really hold on to that’s slipping away. I’ve…

February 13, 2022
2022-02-12 SMA Road Trip Day 6: All Roads Lead Home

Our last night on the road was spent at a Holiday Inn Express and it was definitely not the consistent experience I’ve come to expect from the HIE. Still, we just needed a place to sleep and gear up for the last, and longest, day on the road. No places to stop, no booked tickets…

February 12, 2022
2022-02-11 SMA Road Trip Day 5: A Mammoth Day 🦣🦣🦣

We left our Airbnb before the sun was up. Unfortunately, we’d set ourselves up with tickets for a tour at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky at 1PM making our timeline extremely tight. Yup. Another, no coffee, no bathroom morning. Another 4 hours full of anxiety over having four minutes to spare. Or so We thought. About…

February 11, 2022
2022-02-10 SMA Road Trip Day 4: More Exploring

We were up again with the sun yesterday. There were quite a few Smokey Mountain stops on our list that we either didn’t see signs for or that were on a different road through the park altogether so the goal was just to see more. Truthfully, we were kind of feeling hiked-out from the previous…

February 11, 2022
2022-02-09 SMA Road Trip Day 3: Smoky Mountain Exploration

We woke up on day three to the sunrise which was in full view from the giant window in the master bedroom. And once that sun is up, it is up. No sleeping in is allowed. This was OK by us as we had a full day of exploring the Smoky Mountains ahead. I made…

February 10, 2022
2022-02-08 SMA Road Trip Day 2: Making it (almost) to the Mountains ⛰

We’ve spent a lot of time in the car at this point. On Monday morning I woke with a serious hangover but time waits for no SugarCookie so we had to scoot out of Nashville and on down the road to the mountains. The Smokey Mountains to be exact. Before we left town we drove…

February 10, 2022
2022-02-07 SMA Road Trip Day 1: Sometimes Life is About the Destination

Yesterday was the first full day traveling. We woke up in O’Fallon Illinois and headed east and south through Kentucky and into Tennessee. Yes… we did stop at Starbucks for a coffee before skipping out of O’Fallon. Thankfully we did not have as tight of a timeline to reach our destination as the day before.…

February 7, 2022
2022-02-06 SMA Road Trip Day 0 Continued: The St. Louis Arch

Yesterday we had to push real hard to make our 4:30 ticket time at the Saint Louis arch. We planned to leave home around 9 but became delayed, as is often the case, with all the last minute stuff at the house. I was supremely disappointed as we got on the road and was told…

February 6, 2022