Okay, this is another one of those real life posts, the ones that have nothing to do with Supernatural.  So, if you're just into my Supernatural writing, feel free to pass this one by. (And I promise faithfully to write about the boys Very Soon Now. Really. You think you're going into Winchester withdrawal? Me too. Why else do you think I'm ( Read more... )

 Sunday, 27 August 2006:  Amherst to Painted Post, NY

Well, our original plans went by the wayside, because all it did today was rain. We suited up in raingear right from the start and set out on our trek to Erie, Pennsylvania, where we intended to pick up scenic Route 6 for our run east. At first, we ran through patches where it occasionally ( Read more... )

Wednesday, 23 August 2006:  Elizabeth, NJ to Painted Post, NY

We pulled out about 7:50 for the 250-mile run to Corning, NY. We had another gorgeous day for a ride:  the temp was in the 70’s, the sun was high, and the scenery as we ran west from New Jersey into Pennsylvania and then north into New York was gorgeous. You don’t usually think of New ( Read more... )

 2006:  The Biker Babes At Liberty

Our trip this August took us from the Civil War in Virginia up to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island; then across the southern part of New York to play at the glass museum in Corning; up to the Buffalo area to see the Herschell Carousel Factory Museum in North Tonawanda and to be awed by Niagara Falls; and ( Read more... )

 Sunday, 11 September 2005: Asheville, NC to Virginia Beach, VA

There’s not much to say for today: it was our one pounding day on the highway. We got a late start at around 9:00 because we hadn’t really gotten to bed the night before until 23:00, due to laundry issues. That meant that we didn’t reach our hotel today until 19:30. The day was perfect ( Read more... )

2005: The Biker Babes Cruise the Mid-Atlantic

This year, Mom and Terry rode the bike out from Milwaukee, WI to pick me up in Reston, VA, and we went on from there to play tourist in the mid-Atlantic region. After catching some sights in the vicinity of Washington, DC, we took the wonderfully scenic run down Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway ( Read more... )

 September 21, Tuesday: Solgohachia, AR

Mom actually let us sleep in until 6:20 this morning - a new record!

We took the two hour drive east and a little north to see Mom’s brother Reuben (called Shorts) and his wife Jackie in Solgohachia. We spent the bulk of the day with them, catching up on family and a home-cooked dinner of chicken and ( Read more... )

September 15, Wednesday: Phoenix, AZ

This was a slower day. We got up, ate breakfast, went swimming, and then called the hotel manager up to the room to look at Terry’s bed, with the stuff still sticking out. The manager arrived with her head of housekeeping. Turns out that, as part of the hotel’s conversion to all of the Hampton chain’s new ( Read more... )

 September 9, Thursday: Las Vegas, NV

Today we toured Hoover Dam, cruised on Lake Mead, and dropped in on my old neighbors, Ron and Ruth. Oh, yeah - and I did more laundry.

The Hoover Dam tour was spectacular! Instead of being just a huge engineering project, it’s an art deco masterwork. They are again taking tours down inside the dam structure to ( Read more... )

The Biker Babes - Grand Canyon and California Dreaming, 2004

This year was our biggest trip yet: 5,689.5 miles, covered in three weeks and a day, from Milwaukee, WI to San Bernardino, CA, and back. Along the way, we visited history, spectacle, friends, and family, and had a great trip. Come along for the ride ...

September 3, 2004, Friday: ( Read more... )