As I was driving back from the “20/30 Something Knit Night” tonight at Crazy Girl Yarn Shop (more on that later) I was listening to a Des Moines “Lite” Music station. Now, this would not be my normal choice for music stations but it seemed that everything else that I could get on the radio …
I’m writing this from my bother’s house surrounded by gun parts, military uniforms and other manly paraphernalia with Top Gun on the t.v. It is a seriously far cry from Badlands National Park in South Dakota. If the Western part of the US has a desperate sort of beauty the Badlands are screaming bloody murder. …
In no particular order: 1.) I’ve learned that the past decade plus of being mostly alone has not prepared me well for a cross-country trip with my parents. 2.) Canada is big. I mean, really big. Folks from the US have no appreciation of just how big our neighbor to the North (or the West …
Over a month is much too long for me to be away from home. I’m pretty seriously homesick right now. The only redeeming thing going on now is that I get to cuddle with my eldest “puppy” who has become quite the blanket hog in my absence. I am hoping that Florida will be better. …
So we are on our way back to Iowa in a big way. This is probably our last night on the road as we are in Rapid City, SD. We decided not to go to Yellowstone or Glacier National Parks as we have visited both of them in the past and, well, to tell you …
So, to start off, it has been a little longer than I thought since I last posted. Sorry about that. We have stayed in a few places that claimed to have internet but didn’t really, a few that didn’t claim it and a few that were so far away from anything we were happy that …
We have been on the road for two weeks now and quite honestly, it feels longer. I’ve been away from my family for nearly 3 weeks now so that is at least part of it. I’m missing cuddling with my fuzzy family so much that I find myself totally chatting with random folks that happen …
Today we drove from Anchorage down to Homer and then on to Seward. It was sort of rainy and windy most of the day. We saw the water down there and took a few pictures. It was a lot of driving and not a lot of stopping to tell you the truth. Here are some …
So, not a lot to write about. Everything that we tried to go see today was closed. Either for the season or for a special event. The one thing that I was really looking forward to was going to the Botanical gardens and they were closed for a big thing for the United Way volunteers. …
So today we drove from Denali to Anchorage. We stopped at a great place along the way and got some amazing mixed berry pancakes. That was more or less the highlight of the day. It wasn’t a very hard day of driving, under 200 miles. We took the car in to have an oil change …
Sarah Jane Humke 