Adventures including Visit(s) with Friend(s)
Left Seattle Area yesterday, after 3+ weeks at home We didn’t do even half of what we had on our To-Do List! No surprise. We did get in all our planned (and follow-up) doctor & dentist visits and did the most pressing yard work (i.e. hedge trimming). Mark worked on Read more…
Illinois & Indiana Capitols & last Route 66 Stop (for now) We bypassed St. Louis, to go where we haven’t been before, but we still got to visit with an old St. Louis work friend of Mark’s. Jim and his wife drove up from southern Illinois to see us in Read more…
Three stops in a week…Missouri-Kansas-Missouri We moved Northeast from central Oklahoma to central Missouri over the last week, taking a bit of a Zig-Zag route (including ), with 3 stops: Joplin, MO for 2 nights, Lawrence, KS (between Topeka & Kansas City) for 3 nights, and Columbia, MO (north of Read more…
Isn’t weather Grand?!? We got here on Saturday and didn’t plan much for Sunday. It was laundry day, and we had to deal with our decision to cancel our imminent 5-day camping trip to Guadalupe Mountains National Park…figure out our re-route and make new reservations. Thought maybe we’d do an afternoon Read more…
Lizzy Adventure Album at: January 14- February 20, 2023 (OK…took 3 weeks to wrap this up…hard to “keep up” on the road! Need to work on that process, eh?) Overview The first leg of Life with Lizzy 2023 was 37 days, driving ~3,400 miles (~2,000 Towing, ~1,400 exploring), staying in Read more…
RPI Class of ’75 Friend Zone! We moved to Coyote Valley (San Jose / Morgan Hill) from Petaluma (through Bay Area Traffic) on Sunday. We’ve been here 5 nights, with time to visit multiple “Old” RPI friends, Jan in Morgan Hill, Bill in Palo Alto, and David & Diane in Los Read more…
Lizzy Adventure Albums at: June 2-June 24, 2022 June 24-July 22, 2022 Overview We took our first long Lizzy Trip in 2+ years…50 days, mostly in the Rocky Mountains and High Plains (sleeping above 4,000′ for 35 nights….highest was ~7,165′ @ Laramie, WY) We originally called this trip “Loop thru The Rockies”. Read more…
Leaving Bonneville Salt Flats / Salt Lake City Arrived for one night in Wendover, UT/NV yesterday, and were delighted to find that we arrived at Historic Wendover Army Air Base in time for the once-a-day tour! It was once the largest airbase in the world and was part of the Read more…
Northwest Visit Album at: July 21-26, 2021 Overview In late July, we had company visit from Dallas, Mark’s “old” AT&T friends Pradeep & Mili and their daughter Oly. They were our first house guests since the spring of 2019 (and the first people, other than ourselves, in the house at Read more…
Lizzy Adventure Album at: January 23-February 21, 2020 Overview The first leg of Life with Lizzy 2020, was south along the Southern California Coast. We ended our NorCal Coast Road Trip with The Beast, in Morgan Hill to pick up Lizzy and visit Jan-J again. The next 4 stops were Read more…