Category: Travel
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Pre-pre-departure.
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5 comments on Pre-pre-departure.The big trip is looming closer. We have arranged for neighbors to keep an eye on the house. We have arranged for a friend to open the house and bring food to it the day we arrive. We have a mountain guide and two "kids-and-family" city tours booked. I haven't started panicking yet. I'm…
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In case of emergency.
Here’s a repost from last May, with some new material at the bottom. +++ Last week I unwittingly worried a friend of mine in Facebook chat. I’d mentioned that Mark was out in Colorado on a climbing trip. The last exchange of the chat went like this: FRIEND: Prayers ’till Mark gets home! ME: Thanks!…
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Plans.
Still working on that birth story, I promise. Where did all the time go? + + + Now that our baby has reached 6 weeks without problem or incident, our family feels a little freer to make plans. It’s always hard for me to do so when I am pregnant. You just never know what…
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A weekend camping menu.
Planning for the summer's camping trips and other outings has begun. I'm expecting to go tent-camping with our friends' families at least once or twice this summer, and the other day I called Hannah up to confirm our standard camping menu plan. One summer the three families managed to go camping five times, and that…
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Travel lightly.
We just had a week's vacation in the mountains. When we were out doing fun stuff I wasn't thinking about blogging. I still haven't forgotten how to unplug when necessary. But I had to stop and eat from time to time, and the habit of analyzing my appetites dies pretty hard. Vacation food presents a…
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Sequelae.
I live far, far away from the Gulf of Mexico. I have never walked its beaches and have not seen its waters (unless you want to count a single airplane flight into New Orleans for an American Chemical Society conference some years ago). The kind of natural getaway that's within a day's drive of my…
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Muir of the Mountains: A review.
One of the things I really love about literature-based history in elementary school is that you get to decide the criteria of who's "important" enough to spend lots of time on. In elementary school, you can, if you wish, pick historical characters based on interestingness, or, well, character. Even if some of the…
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