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Our Un-rocky 4000 Mile Road Trip to the Rockies

I am very happy to have this website back! So is Len ... now he can go go on to OTHER projects on his list.  Fixing this after the attack-hack of early May - it was not an easy thing. 

But we're good to go now ...

While I was offline I was one a big old road trip to the Canadian Rockies. And then I was writing about it.

Some of you remember the Prairie Dog Quadrilateral - my weekly newsletter. I published it in PDF mode because it allows me to add a lot of photos.

I've done that here for this recap of our vacation.  We took a lot of cool pix, I wanted to include them because frankly - photos are more exciting than recapping someone else's car trip.. Right?

So click into the icon and it will open.

Thanks for your patience while I was offline.

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Submitted by Karen on May 31, 2018 - 8:27pm
Awesome trip. Loved the pictures. Smiled at the reference to Tim Horton’s coffee - good coffee! Loved hearing about the trip in depth. But, holy cow - that’s a lot of mileage

Submitted by David on June 1, 2018 - 12:45pm
Thanks Mary Beth, made me feel like I was there with you. Again. And yes, to everybody reading, we did come back better friends! Citizens of the Car. Pun Pals. Survivors of Ennui. Sojourners of Fortune. That's us!

Submitted by Mary Beth on June 1, 2018 - 1:32pm
If only Lewis and Clark had had a hybrid...

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Four Days Up North

If you click into the icon that's right here, you can read my take on our recent small vacation to northern Wisconsin. We hiked - and took photos!  Pictures are by both of us, though a lot of the most astounding ones are from Len and his 10-year old Nikon. 

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Pere Marquette Memorial in Ludington

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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century - by Jessica Bruder

 

You’ve read these kinds of statistics before.  In the US our incomes are spread like this: The top 1% suck up 81 times MORE annual income than the bottom half of ALL Americans.

Len's Marinated Story Starts

Our family gathered for Easter dinner this year, um, the Saturday after Easter. I guess flexibility is one of our survival skills.  Our three kids have in-laws, one baby, two dogs and all three live 1-3 hours away. We are grateful when these kids show up at all, let alone needing them on specific dates.

So. Easter dinner. The kids had given Len a new Weber grill for his birthday – which inspired an Easter menu of kabobs. Some marinated and grilled veggies plus a lot of marinated and grilled meat.

Update on Our Brother

In June I wrote about Our Brother  HERE

Here’s an update:

Our Brother is still working at the same warehouse, full-time, $9/hr.  

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Detroit!

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Amazingly, this has taken ALL my time since Wednesday morning. Sheesh, one seldom really sees Giant New Things to Learn as they come down the pike straight at one. 

These photos are from my phone, Len's phone, and our camera. So I got to play with two on-line albums of photos and then, surprise-surprise, the end product was "too big" - so today I got to run all the photos through Photoshop to make them smaller pixel-wise.  

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