yeah, I wrote a post yesterday(?) and then lost it. Today I'm working on less than reliable internet and it's slow. Let's hope that I can get this done right today. I'm also trying to get it done fast because P's in the shower and we're going to have to check out in about 45 minutes.

Okay, after we returned from our DC trip, we were going to do ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we took the train to DC, the subway to the Mall. P had never been to DC but I used to go when I was a kid when my paternal grandparents lived in Silver Spring, MD. We didn't especially have a strong opinion about what we were going to do but decided that we were going to go to the Holocaust Museum, Bureau of Engraving (where they make ( Read more... )

I tried to post before but the hostel computer I was using decided to quit on me. I'm now using P's new laptop. Let me tell you what we've been doing....

We left Saturday morning at 1:30am and drove through until we got to Caryville, TN. It wasn't too bad and I even drove through Chicago around 10am. We took turns sleeping in the back of the car, ( Read more... )

Yeah, so this is my last few days on my contract for work, I know I'm out of sorts because of it. Poor P's had to deal with me being a little less than stellar about my current job prospects ( Read more... )

I'm also starting to plan our vacation. We're going to take 2 weeks in July and go eastward.  Where? Well that's a good question...a couple of places we're hoping to see for sure are as follows:

We want to go here: http://www.turtleislandpreserve.com/ which is near Boone, NC and take the horse and buggy rides around the preserve.

We want to hike on ( Read more... )

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We left Flagstaff (I really like that town) and had 48 hours to get the minivan back to Dodge City, KS and pick up the repaired car. We stayed in a Hostel in Sante Fe but really didn't have time to do anything besides eat and sleep before we were on the road again. The drivers around there are CRAZY, speeding worse than I've seen it anywhere. We ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in an adorable  but very busy coffee shop in Flagstaff, I just finished reading 300+ posts to catch up. I've got to pee but don't want to leave the laptop alone to do it so I'll do my best. I woke up at about 6am after going to bed around 10p or earlier so it's 8 hours, the rest of the crew were still sleeping. I've got traveler's ( Read more... )

This morning we woke up early to take the car to a local garage before everything was closed for the 4th. It was 7am. We got the car in and the guy replaced the fuel filter but thought it could also be the fuel pump but we'd have to go back to Wichita to the Volvo dealer. We decided that it was the filter and decided to move forward if it still was ( Read more... )

That's where we are now.....we were able to drive just under 200 miles today which is probably the most so far but not fast enough to me. We hope we can get the car looked at tomorrow. The one garage that we're planning on taking it to opens at 7am ( Read more... )