Archive for July, 2006
Friday, July 28th, 2006
Tucson, AZ
We got home yesterday after driving through the night. We left Springfield, MO and arrived 26 hours later, which included 3 hours of quality sleep at a rest area as well as requisite food, gas, and fluid disposal stops. That’s 1370 miles of driving, a pretty decent clip. It is so good to be home, [...]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Peoria. IL
3690 miles into the trip and we’re heading back. Google says we have “1884 mi (about 1 day 2 hours)” left, although it recommends a different route than we’ll be taking. The geek side of me (I was going to say inner geek, but my geek waives high and proud for all to see) is [...]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Kewanee, IL
We’ve been in Kewanee a few days now, a wonderfully peaceful stop with good friends. How we got here was in the best spirit of road tripping, I think. We woke up St. Cloud, MN, on Thursday. Had some breakfast then saw Cars again to waste some time before meeting friends for dinner. My buddies [...]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
St Cloud, MN
Our road trip plans have taken a hit. My oldest friend and next scheduled pit stop had some emergency surgery today, so he’s not up for company. Don’t worry, he’ll be just fine, and the nature of the surgery will give me comedic material for decades to come. But we’re currently fishing about for things [...]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Near Thief River Falls, MN
There is a big honkin’ indoor water park attached to the casino here. 4 big water slides, including one big enough you can take tubes down it. The whole thing is ringed by a lazy river which is *extremely* relaxing to float around. There’s a very big lagoon entry kiddy pool area. Highly recommended, the [...]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Near Thief Tiver f
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Cake or Death?
There are 4 kids in the van, all cousins of varying degrees, aged 13, 10, 6, and 4. They’re playing “would you rather”, as in “would you rather fight a bear or jump off a cliff?” and other such deep philisophical conundrums. I didn’t think Isaac (4 yr old) was really paying attention, but clearly [...]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Cake or d
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
Rapid City, SD
Surprisingly our trip odometers only go to 3 digits. Trip B says 443 miles so far, but it’s actually 1443 since we left.
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Monday, July 10th, 2006
Torrington, WV
First Taco John’s sighting! Potato Ole’s ahoy!