I like "up", but it's better if I'm not touching the ground - a suitably pressurized aircraft is ideal. (Although I think I might have been less affected if I'd had some time to adjust. We went from near-sea-level Iowa City to Laramie in less than a day, then overnighted in Laramie, where all three of us woke up feeling mildly ill. And the trip from relatively low elevation to Donner Summit took only a few hours. I daresay if the change in altitude had been slower, we'd all have been able to get used to it gradually.)
In mid-October, my friend jenny_evergreen and her husband and their two kids, who live in Chicago, did their own grand tour of the Northeast in their van. I made four different kinds of homemade cookies for them to take as "road food" on the next leg of their trip. We went to a seafood restaurant for dinner - they're pescetarians, and this whole area is full of places to get fresh fish and seafood. I also took them to the highest point on the East Coast and showed them the Atlantic Ocean. I'd like to have taken them to the beach and let them dip their feet in the water, but not with a three-year-old and a six-year-old in the surf!
Since I won't be constrained by having to make at least some of the cookies suitable for small children, there are endless possibilities. I'm a very good baker, if I do say so myself :-)
In mid-October, my friend jenny_evergreen and her husband and their two kids, who live in Chicago, did their own grand tour of the Northeast in their van. I made four different kinds of homemade cookies for them to take as "road food" on the next leg of their trip. We went to a seafood restaurant for dinner - they're pescetarians, and this whole area is full of places to get fresh fish and seafood. I also took them to the highest point on the East Coast and showed them the Atlantic Ocean. I'd like to have taken them to the beach and let them dip their feet in the water, but not with a three-year-old and a six-year-old in the surf!
Since I won't be constrained by having to make at least some of the cookies suitable for small children, there are endless possibilities. I'm a very good baker, if I do say so myself :-)
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