Home in lovely New Hampshire! We’ve got about five weeks at home to get whatever needs doing done before we head out on the road again. A lot of that doing is in the chore category – it comes with the territory. If you go on vacation for five months, you’ve got a five-month stack of life you’ve left behind that needs tending to. Continue reading
May 21 – An evening in New York is all I get this time and we split it between the West Village for dinner and uptown for drinks. We’ve settled on John’s Pizzeria on Bleeker Street for our first course – we being Mike Fishman, Robbie Mendelson and me, and we dig in with gusto. Continue reading
May 13 – Mother’s Day – and what better way to spend it than with my daughter. My gift is Bridget, and her gift is she does the five-hour drive through the rolling hills of Pennsylvania to Ithaca in upstate New York while leaving the music-to-drive-by selection to me. Continue reading
May 11 – Mornings are for coffee, and this one is no different, except this time we’ve got a Tim Horton’s across the parking lot from our hotel. We’ve got a lot of Tim Horton’s in our future when we get up to Canada, but I’m surprised to see this Canadian coffee chain down here in the States. Continue reading
There are probably 101 times 10 ways to drive through America’s Midwest. Mention it to anybody who’s crossed the Midwest by car and the response is always the same: it’s the absolutely dead-last worst drive in the entire country … nothing except straight, flat road that goes on forever. Apparently it doesn’t much matter which road you’re on – one’s as brutally dull as the next. Here’s how we did it … Continue reading
May 6 – Leaving Bridget in Aurora with Dave and his girlfriend, Kacie, I made my getaway to Evergreen, up in the mountains west of Denver, for a two-day visit with ProofreadNow’s marketing director, Conni Eversull, and her family Continue reading
May 5 – Cinco de Mayo – This is one of those holidays that usually passes me by. Sequestered as I am up in northern New England, Mexican independence doesn’t come up in conversation much – I’m not sure I’d know which side I should be drinking for. But we’ll be in Denver for the cocktail hour, and I’m sure we’ll be celebrating something. Continue reading
May 4 – It’s another road day. A day when our only goal is to cover as many miles of America as we can on our way to where we want to go: Denver, Colorado. Twelve hours in the car, and we’re hoping to get seven or eight of them done today, minimum six, which would put us in Green River, Utah, for the night. First stop is Jiffy Lube out on East Sahara Avenue – Dexy needs an oil change Continue reading
For a city that tends toward excess, Las Vegas can be pretty tame if you let it be. Although, really, why else would you go to Las Vegas other than to indulge in the excessive? It’s a man-made wonder that screams “PLAY ME!” “WIN BIG!” “SPEND, SPEND, SPEND!” Continue reading
It’s a long road from Big Sur to Las Vegas, requiring many stops, including the requisite morning coffee. By the time we got to that coffee, we’d already put in a good day’s work: packing up the campsite and lugging it the .3 miles to the car in the parking lot. Continue reading