Present timeIt is 8:45 in the morning and this is our second day in Orlando. The kids just woke up and are watching the Half Blood Prince on the TV. We are all recovering from a very long day at Universal studios where, yes, we visited Harry Potter’s Wizarding World. But all in good time,Continue reading “Travel Journal: Entry #4”
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Travel Journal: Entry #3
Present time It is 10:30 at night and we are in a hotel just outside of Pensacola, Florida. I have tears in my eyes because I just finished watching America’s Funniest videos with the kids, and yes, I am just like the rest of America. Watching people fall down is really funny. Things I’ve learnedContinue reading “Travel Journal: Entry #3”
Travel Journal: Entry #2
UPDATE CAR: Fixed! We needed a new radiator and a new thermostat, but at 11:30 this morning, $500 bucks lighter, we were back on the road and heading toward Nashville, Tennessee. But that is a later post. Suffice it to say, that Nashville is much more civilized. It sells beer and wine in its groceryContinue reading “Travel Journal: Entry #2”
Travel Journal: Entry #1
Right now, I am sitting in the dark at around 7 am in a Motel 6 just outside of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I hear the sounds of the people in the room next door getting ready for the day: hairdryers, keys clanging, doors banging, cars starting up. There is even the ding dong ring of theContinue reading “Travel Journal: Entry #1”
What is home?
It hit me when the plane was beginning its descent into Vancouver. The dark, coniferous backside of the mountains, like prickly beasts dipping their large heads to drink from the ocean, seemed to pierce my heart with a longing I didn’t even know I had. The landscape was so familiar, so part of me. ItContinue reading “What is home?”
Vacation Haze
This whole idea of vacation is strange. It always makes me slightly uncomfortable, mainly because I have an uneasy suspicion that if I actually stop and do nothing for a day, I won’t be able to get back to the usual pace I need to keep in order to maintain our life. But here IContinue reading “Vacation Haze”
Lina Branter 