One thing you should know about the Disenchanted Family is that we are nuts about national parks. Unfortunately, we don’t always like the same types of parks. The Coach – a military history buff – is all about civil war battlefields, revolutionary war battlefields, Indian war battlefields, battlefields, battlefields, battlefields. Me? I’m more into the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Day 2: Three Parks, Four Trails, and a Long Haul
Posted in It's My Life, Travel, tagged nebraska, Vacation, wyoming on July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Day 1: The American Road Trip
Posted in It's My Life, Travel, tagged Missouri, nebraska, Vacation on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nebraska Highway
If only I had planned better, we could have stopped at the Archway.
My brain is still on vacation. In case you haven’t been paying attention – and since it’s summer vacation, I’m sure most people are outside playing instead of sitting in front of their computers – The Coach and I just got back [...]
Travel Crazy
Posted in It's My Life, Travel, tagged Travel on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
States Visited in 2009, through July 10: New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania.
Federal Districts Visited in 2009: Washington, D.C.
Countries Visited in 2009, through July 10: Peru
Rotten
Posted in It's My Life, This F***ing Old House, tagged House, Refrigerator, Vacation on July 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Came home from vacation yesterday and discovered that our refrigerator died while we were on vacation. Chunky milk, melted ice cream, sour hamburger, and smelly chicken. Yeah, about $400 worth of groceries down the drain. That’ll teach me to stock up before leaving town, eh? So, last night, we went out and dropped $2,400 on [...]
Ironic
Posted in Photos, Travel, Wat Stom!, tagged Environmentalism, Missouri on July 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Windy Town, Missouri
Today, we heard a story about T. Boone Pickens slowing down his revolutionary efforts to build a wind farm. Then, we saw this plate in a Stuckey’s in Missouri. Go Figure.
Small World
Posted in Photos, Travel, tagged Bison, south dakota, Travel on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bison, outside of Wind Cave
I should be getting in the shower so we can make our tour of the Minuteman Missile site, but here I am, playing around with my blog. Why? Because The Coach just ran into some people from the same damned county he grew up in. The woman’s brother went to high [...]
Surprise WiFi
Posted in Photos, Travel, tagged Crazy Horse, Monument, south dakota, Travel, Vacation on July 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Crazy Horse Monument, South Dakota
Courtesy of a surprise wifi connection @ my hotel in the Badlands.
Tomorrow, the race for home begins …
Big Sky
Posted in It's My Life, Photos, Travel, tagged montana, Travel, Vacation on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Taking Pictures of Big Sky Country
NOTE: We had no internet (or cell phone service) at Devil’s Tower! We had crappy internet service at our KOA in Rapid City and spotty cell service once we left the campground for Mount Rushmore and beyond. Today, we’re off to find buffalo (maybe – they were elusive yesterday) and [...]
Day 2: Scott’s Bluff, Nebraska
By the Numbers:
Three national parks/monuments;
10 coal trains;
23 miles from Montana;
$80 for a National Parks Pass;
12 AA batteries in my camera
A real post will be coming soon.
St. Louis, from the giant traffic jam
By the numbers:
15 hours, 5 minutes drive time;
~890 miles;
$63.90 in gasoline;
$85.66 for hotel in Ogallala, NE;
averaging 25.7 mpg;
5 tuna sandwiches between two people;
$9.48 in food costs
