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Lessons Learned:  Toll booths

Lessons Learned: Toll booths

June 7, 2010 No Comments

When you rent a car, ask the rental folks how the toll system works.  Even more importantly, be sure that the system they are giving you works. If you don’t know how the toll system works, stop at the ticket booth.  Don’t assume that because you have one of those ez-pass things in your glove […]

The Thing About Delaware …

The Thing About Delaware …

June 6, 2010 1 Comment

According to Wikipedia – the source of all knowledge – Delaware has no national parks, no national seaside, no national monuments, no national battlefields and no national memorials.  And no baseball team.

The Manhattan Flyby

The Manhattan Flyby

June 6, 2010 No Comments

Through the Bronx, over the George Washington Bridge … but just a peek at Manhattan as we drove by …

Live Free or Die!

Live Free or Die!

June 6, 2010 No Comments

Our second state of the morning, and we haven’t even had coffee! Did you know that New Hampshire’s state motto is “Live Free or Die” as once voiced by General John Stark, the state’s most distinguished hero of the Revolutionary War. When they decided on their motto, it beat out “There’s nothing left . . . […]

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Oregon

Time:  12:04pm Mileage:  5,995.5 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Devil Woman (Marty Robbins) So far, Oregon looks just like North Dakota...

Washington

Time: 8:54am Mileage: 5,455.6 Driver: Colleen Song: Wrap it Up (Fabulous Thunderbirds) Who puts the welcome sign on the...

Idaho

Time: 7:58am Mileage: 5,382.2 Driver: Colleen Song: My Angel is a Centerfold (J Geils Band) Christmas tree country …...

Illusions can be shattered …

For years and years (until Deadwood, anyway) Calamity Jane was Doris Day. She was a little rough around the...

Meanwhile .. back in Montana …

As we start day six .. and let me just add that 4:00am does not get easier the more...

Never Sit With Your Back to the Door

Wild Bill Hickok lived by that adage…until August 2, 1876, when sitting with his back to the door (duh!)...

Montana

Time: 2:47pm Mileage: 4,694.4 Driver: Colleen Song: Midnight Rider (Allman Brothers) Big sky country – the sky opens up...

North Dakota

Time:  1:45pm Mileage:  4,644.4 Driver:  Colleen Song:  Technicolor Love (New Radicals) The same as South Dakota and yet different somehow....

Wyoming

Time:  12:02pm Mileage:  4,040.2 Driver:  Laura Song:  Dark Lady (Cher) The birthplace of Larry Wilcox!  Plus, of course, national parks,...

Laura – I wish I knew how to quit you…

I Wish I Knew How to Quit You No really.  I wish I knew how to quit you, but...