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Road Trip Day 12: I’m on a boat!

August 2, 2016 Lydia Snider

Ferry regulars are over the whole sundeck thing – especially on a chilly, cloudy day like today. I had the bow mostly to myself for a Titanic “I’m queen of the world!” moment. True, it’s only a workhorse ferry crossing. But exhilaration can happen anywhere. The water is rushing beneath the deck and the wind […] Read More

Road Trip Day 2: Crater Lake – Serenity & Vigor

August 2, 2016 Lydia Snider

I arrived too late for the Crater Lake snow experience and too early for the Crater Lake summer experience, but my experience was juuust right. There is still double overhead snow at the lake. The gift shop with absurdly over priced future landfill emblazoned with “Crater Lake” is of course open. As is the, packed […] Read More

Road Trip Day 1: Silence and Bickering GPS Chicks

August 2, 2016 Lydia Snider

One of my big concerns in preparing for this trip was lining up music and podcasts to fill the long hours driving the long “get through it to get to the good stuff” stretches of highway. This day’s highway was mostly driving through the hay fields to get to where I was going. I turned […] Read More

Nerdtastic Road Trip

August 2, 2016 Lydia Snider

Lord help me, I’ve become the digital age version of my mother. When we went on trips as kids mom had The Envelope. This was the life line of the trip. Above all else the envelope was to be protected. And no one besides mom was to touch it. What looked to the untrained eye like random […] Read More