Shifting Gears   Baby Boomer…Member Life 2.0…Wife, Mother, Grammie…Bicyclist…GoldWinger…Mensan…Girl Scout…Reader…Knitter…Rotarian

After we got back from our trip, my brain obviously went on vacation because it sure hasn’t been thinking about writing.  Guess that makes sense – according to Burl, we didn’t go on vacation because that’s our life 24/7 – instead we took a sightseeing trip.  Whatever you call it, being on the road afforded [...]

Whew!  We made it – Women of Substance for July.  When I thought we were going to be gone until early August it looked like we’d have to skip July and meet twice next month but luckily I got back and Vickie and Robin were free tonight.  When I told Burl we were going out [...]

We are home!  The last couple of days have been marathon driving with almost 650 miles yesterday and 375 today.  But once we get in the mindset to get home, there’s no stopping my driver.  We lucked out yesterday because by time we stopped for lunch in western Nebraska, the temp was already 100 so [...]

Today was breakfast in Burley, Wyoming – lunch in Park City, Utah – and dinner in Rawlins, Wyoming!  Good thing we didn’t go for Taco Bell’s 4th Meal or we couldn’t have stopped for the night! We knew we’d be going near Salt Lake City and Burl offered to show me his favorite ski haunt [...]

Today was a total travel day – 504 miles – except for brunch about 11:00 and a stop at the Sierra Trading Post Outlet in Meridian, ID.  Our SIL, Blair, had told us about their outlets and even though we were there for an hour and I tried on tons of bargains, I came away [...]

Tammy tagged me with this quiz on Facebook but I figured I’d use it for blog fodder instead.  Feel free to copy and paste into your own blog. Tired of all of those surveys made up by “high school kids” (or adults who use sub-standard English)? Here’s a list of questions for the people who [...]

Last summer we had a great ride on the bike going from Monterrey to Los Angeles on the Pacific Coast Highway.  We’ve heard from so many people that if we really wanted to see spectacular scenery, we needed to ride the PCH in Oregon so today was the day! We started at Astoria, OR which [...]

Tonight it’s Oregon!  Although we’re barely over the state line and are at mile marker 0 for Highway 101 – more commonly known as the Pacific Coast Highway. Before we were even out of town this morning we had confirmed our re-entry into the USA by stopping at Mickey D’s for our free goodies on [...]

This post being brought to you by the U.S.A.  We’re back on our native soil in Bellingham, WA after 8 glorious days spent with our neighbors to the north.  We loved Canada and here are 10 things to share about that country: 10.  The Canadians we met were friendly, helpful and kind  – every single [...]

Tonight we are staying in 100 Mile House, BC which is about 300 miles north of the US border.  Of course I had to find out the origin of the unique name of this town – turns out the town is on the route of the gold prospectors from the 1860’s.  The route started in [...]