Want to make 48 hours go by in a heartbeat? Go to one of your favorite cities with one of your favorite friends! A and I met up in Chicago last weekend for a well-deserved weekend of shopping, eating, talking, and celebrating moms. A’s mom passed away the same week as mine. Talk about your […]
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Have Friends, Will Travel…
So many thanks to my girlfriends, C and E, for coming down to Texas to help me leave mom and dad’s house for (hopefully) one last time and to enjoy a fun road trip home with my new car. I don’t know about the ladies, but I had a great time. Lots of time to […]
Crowdsourcing a Road Trip Playlist
“It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down I had the radio on, I was drivin’ Trees flew by, me and Del were singin’ little Runaway I was flyin” In the next few weeks I am embarking on a colossal road trip, crossing the country south-to-north as I bring mom’s car up to […]
Honeymoon 5B: The Underbelly and Overjoyment of Paris
We started our last day by getting in an hour-long line to visit the Catacombs. (Sidenote: while we waited in line, I had to go to the bathroom (surprise, surprise), so I used one of their street toilets. This was a space age system! The whole thing, ceiling to floor, is sterilized and dried between […]
Honeymoon Part 5a: My Night(s) in Paris
Our TomTom took us on beautiful back roads since we were trying to skip tolls (7,80 euro for a tunnel and 11,80 euro for the freeway the day before!) We went through a number of quiet, country towns before BAM, Paris traffic. We ended up in almost stopped traffic for 20 minutes (6 miles), but […]