Vacation; or, We Attack the Pacific Northwest

N.B.: I’m stealing the format of this post from Tammy, because it’s a great way to do this quickly given that we took about 4,000 pictures.
We drove from Pocatello to Port Townsend, WA (1,700 miles) to visit Grammy and Grandpa for 2 weeks (the kids staying an extra third week). We hadn’t been to Washington [...]

Southern California, May 2009

The kids and I took our annual pilgrimage to see grandparents at the end of May. Then this year the trip came hard on the heels of SillyBilly’s kindergarten graduation, and Anthropapa did not come with us (saving his vacation time for an even bigger trip we’re taking in a few weeks, out to Seattle [...]

Unsettled

(You will have to bear with me here. I have lots going on and came up with this cute little structure for the post that will not let me cut anything out! So read on, all 1,400 words, if you dare. If not, I won’t blame you — aren’t blog posts supposed to be no [...]

Whirlwind Thoughts

I thank…
…my dad for getting us a hotel room in Salt Lake City over the weekend, so we could meet up for my step-nephew’s wedding.
…my dad and stepmom for watching the kids and taking them to the wedding while I took Anthropapa to the emergency room (Don’t panic, he’s fine. It was just a temporary, [...]

Weekend Culture and Nature

We had a very busy weekend. Saturday we went to the Sagebrush Arts Fest at ISU. We saw lots of cool arts and crafts–a glassblower made a tiny horse right before our eyes, the knifemaker told us all about the shed antlers and obsidian he uses to make his wares, and lots of paintings, photographs, [...]

Our Trip, Wyoming to Idaho

On to Wyoming, which is as flat (when it’s not mountains) and windy as they say it is.

But it’s also quite beautiful, in its own way. Once we got into the midwest, the sky just opened up in a way that is hard to come by back east, where there are too many hills and [...]

Our Trip, Up to Nebraska

Why not all the way to Idaho, you ask? Well, for some reason, I ended up with tons of pictures of Wyoming. Don’t ask. So you’ll get the rest in another post.

We started out tired. All that packing and stress. Feh.

Anthropapa was probably the most exhausted, and he got to drive most of the way. [...]

Now We Are Home

Well, a lot happens out in the world while you are traveling and have limited internet access. I kept my email pretty up to date, but I just got into my blog feed reader today after almost 10 days away: 323 posts!
First impressions of Pocatello: dry air, lots of very bright sunshine, too few trees. [...]

Travel Update

Well, the great American Anthrofamily trek is well underway. By the grace of God.
Of course, the final packing and truck loading went as well as can be expected. Which is to say, like hell. Our wonderful next-door neighbor (who happens to be moving into our vacated house) was kind enough to help load the truck [...]

2008 Vacation: What Went Wrong

Though we had a wonderful time visiting with 3 out of 4 sets of grandparents, being tourists, playing at the park, etc….we had some serious mishaps as well. And looking back on it, they just got worse and worse…
Bad Thing #1: The flight out was fine, except that evidently there was a robust cold virus [...]