Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
You know what’s not so grand? Writhing awake half the night and constantly rushing to the hotel bathroom. Being sick makes me want to die. Knowing I had to get up early to catch a train made it even worse. At 3am, I hated this whole dumb journey we’re on. Today was beautiful. Rainy and…
Today was so much better than yesterday. I made jokes, but seriously, yesterday had me considering jumping out of the moving car on the freeway and hitchhiking. Today, people were praying for us and we drank more caffeine and we (mostly) didn’t bicker. We woke up with trains rolling by between us and the…
Today was kind of a doozy. Eloise woke up many times last night. This morning there was a badly timed bathroom accident. No one napped all day. Eloise knocked over a mannequin and Isaac ripped a page out of a book at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Isaac lied several times. Eloise screamed…
What did you think of Carlsbad Caverns? Ezekiel: “Cool.” Isaac: “It was scary.” Jane: “I was bored.” Hannah: “I kind of deserve that for every time I complained at a national park on family vacation when I was little.” My favorite part was the kids whispering the entire time we were 750 feet underground. Flash…
There wasn’t a big sign or welcome center on the small backroad road we followed from West Texas to Carlsbad, New Mexico—just curtains of rain on the horizon and an exciting lightning storm. This is exactly what I remember/picture when I think of New Mexico: horizons, clouds, open space. It’s so beautiful. We arrived in…
The recent rains across the South made what usually is dry and brown bloom green and lush. Midland is the last stop on Phase Two of our Manifest Destiny transcontinental journey. Phase One was somewhat familiar territory driving across the Appalachians and Mississippi River to Texas. Phase Two has been thr Texas Tour, chillin with…
“WHAT is THAT?!” I pointed to several inches of squished exoskeleton with lots of pointy legs. Chris called back from the other side of the car, “I don’t know, but here’s a bigger one!” We found lots of interesting things at Texas rest stops, like a wide selection of fried pork fat. I opted for the…
