The wind is surprisingly bitter today. Jill found out nobody’s looked at her the medical test results we returned here for. We’d been led to believe they would be reviewed before today. So we wait and read books. The days go by. The weather is indifferently getting colder. Tonight we will carve pumpkins with a bunch of friends. Jill is roasting vegetables for the party.… Read the rest
My Life
10/26/2015, back in Minneapolis
I had a bit of a lazy day yesterday. Jill and I went to Blue Moon cafe for coffee, Longfellow Market and Walgreens for errands. Jill signed up for a housesitting website and now we are looking for a place for a break and planning. We had leftover soup and bread to lunch and supper was mashed potatoes and some sautéed vegetables.… Read the rest
Bokeelia, Florida
We’ve returned to this place of comfort and warm air. It is 80º F outside. I am always on the verge of sweating. We arrived in the afternoon heat. This morning I’m eating a bowl of pomelo chunks. Tomorrow will be nearly the same and the day after we will pack up and fly to New York. The heat will be a fleeting thing.… Read the rest
9/9/2015 Comstock, MN, USA
Here we are back in Northern Minnesota. We’ve returned to see a very important baby. Jill’s new-mother-cousin is visiting her parents. We decided to get in on the action. The state fair ended on Monday and it already feels like a dream I had. We worked and played there for the entire 12 days of it. We have worked at the German Root Beer stand for 8 years.… Read the rest
8/24/2015 Minneapolis, MN, USA
I’ve been in Minneapolis for about a week and Minnesota for nearly a month now. Jill and I are slowly visiting family and friends.Currently we are holed up while we watch two doggies for a few days. We are going to work at the State Fair, and that will fill up our time quite a bit. We have not been idle since we paused here; it feels a bit like I should be going back to work and rejoin the lives we left here.… Read the rest
7/11/2015 Portland, Oregon
We made it to Portland last night. It’s feels like years since Sacramento. Jill and I spent ten days apart at the same meditation camp. There was no speaking or interaction allowed between the men and the women or with anyone for that matter. I think I am still pondering what I got out of it. Jill wrote all about her experience.… Read the rest
Tempe, AZ USA
This is Tempe in the summer. It is blazing hot outside and relatively hot indoors. It’s a little too hot for me. We’ve been here for one week staying with our friends Rob and Leah who just moved here from Norfolk. We stayed with them on our other road trip to Florida. Because of the heat we have been staying inside mostly.… Read the rest
Flagstaff, Arizona
We rolled into Flagstaff to a Taco Tuesday party at Martine’s house. We found Lucia and Penelope already there visiting for soccer camp. Exciting to see cousins and their kin after too long absent.
How do I recount so much we’ve done since Marathon, a montage, I think.
it rains in the desert when we are there. Big Bend is the only national park encompassing an entire mountain range.
… Read the rest Notes From Texas
Here we are in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We’ve been traveling frantically it feels like since Florida. Florida seems like a long time ago. Houston Space Center was well worth the $20 plus ticket. We saw the Saturn rocket, space gadgets, and the first control room. They used it through 1990 or so and then restored back to 1969 technology. After eating a delicious Vietnamese sandwich at Thien An restaurant downtown we moved on to Austin. We… Read the rest
5/27/2015 Houston Texas USA
We are in Houston staying with some kind couch hosts for the night. They have 3 cats and 3 dogs. We have one cat at the foot of the bed tonight. We visited the USS Texas today then came here and have been chatting with our hosts ever since. Tomorrow we go to the space center and Austin. Yesterday we stayed in Ocean Spring and bought a Trac phone.… Read the rest