Browsing the archives for the Travel category
The forecast is for snow and sleet this weekend. I will not drive on roads with the danger of snow and ice. There is just no place I need to be that is so important that I will risk wrecking my car or getting hurt because of bad road conditions. I am heading to the [...]
Today I had the opportunity to talk to someone who lives in Michigan. Now, I have lived “down south” for many years and I believe I have a very neutral accent. In fact, I really do not want anyone to ever remark on my speech patterns and tell me that I have a southern accent. [...]
This afternoon I decided to be sociable and I spent a few hours next door with my new neighbors. We made a big pitcher of Sangria. It would have been nice to sit out on the deck sipping the Sangria, but it has been rainy and cold all day, so we gathered in her living [...]
Here’s one last photo from the trip to Oklahoma that I wanted to share. Most of the gas stations sell more than gas, although it is almost impossible to find one that has an automatic car wash on the property. They just don’t waste money on washing cars out there. The gas stations have a [...]
Something I’d never seen before our trip to western Oklahoma: tire signs. Evidently the farmers take old tires and paint on the tires with big white letters “No Hunting” and then sling them over a fence post every hundred yards or so. Back home, we buy little rectangular white on black plastic signs from Wal-Mart [...]