It’s summertime, which means it’s time for another road trip. This week we are Driving Miss Gracie to Estes Park, CO for a 75th anniversary reunion of World Venture, the mission agency that my parents served with in Pakistan. Not only that, her father was one of the founders as well. We are taking our sweet […]
Road Trip Reading
Long hours spent in the car means long hours spent reading. Here is a list of the books that the five of us read on this year’s road trip: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Vergese Guadal-canal Diary, by Richard Tregaskis and Mark Bowden Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Walls, Jeannette (2009) Hardcover, by […]
Road Trip Eating
One of the fun things about a road trip is the food. While we are not averse to grabbing a cup of coffee or a coke at MacDonald’s on driving days for the sake of convenience, we are trying to mix up our culinary experiences. This means trying to hit some of the local favorites […]
All the Tea in Austin
Our main reason for going to Austin on this trip was to visit my niece, who has fled the Minnesota winter for warmer climes. When not working at her day job teaching ESL, she and her boyfriend spend all their time on a business they started called Lost Pines Yaupon Tea. Made from the Yaupon […]
Road Trip | Interstate 35
After three “shorter” road trips this year (Oregon in April, Kansas in July, and Montana in August), we’re finally getting around to our annual epic road trip. Being that it is November, we decided to make a swing south, with stops in Austin, New Orleans, Panama City Beach, and Memphis, visiting relatives and taking in […]
Road Trip Reading List
Many of you have written asking for a list of the 11 books I mentioned in the last post, that the four of us knocked off on our road trip. Here it is. I will leave it to you to figure out who read what! A Man Called Ove: A Novel, by Fredrik Backman A Storm […]
