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Clustr Maps: III – Wake Up & See The Glory

Posted in AAA, Arizona, Cafe Tusayan, Faith, Family, Geography, Grand Canyon, Kids, Life, National Parks, Road Trip, Steven Curtis Chapman, The Red Feather Lodge, Travel with children, Tweens, YouTube, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

  
Hubby’s first view of the Grand Canyon left him slack-jawed for about ten minutes.
Sam couldn’t believe how far down it was to the floor of the canyon, and I didn’t remember how awe- inspiringly-beautiful it was.
(Is that a word? It should be.)   
The Nintendo DS stayed in the car. 
The storm that had [...]

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Clustr Maps II – Make Reservations!

Posted in AAA, Arizona, Children, Daily Life, Family, Geography, Humor, Kids, Life, National Parks, Road Trip, The Red Feather Lodge, Travel, Travel with children, Tweens, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Years ago we traveled like we were hippies from the 60’s….a VW vanagon….wherever the road took us….wherever the wind blew…with no hotel reservations.  We weren’t total rebels…we got maps from AAA. 
Then. 
We had kids.  
It’s hard to be “free as a bird” with one in diapers, one barely potty trained and one who loved to flush toilets. 
But, we were thrilled to [...]

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Get Your Kicks on Route 66

Posted in AAA, Clustr Maps, Family, Geography, Kids, Life, Music, Nat King Cole, Road Trip, Route 66, Travel, Travel with children, Tweens, YouTube, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

During one of those cross country trips when I was a tween one of the 8 tracks that we played a lot was an Nat King Cole album. 
There was one song in particular that popped back in my head during our recent whirlwind tour of National Parks.  When we were in Williams, Arizona, I saw this [...]

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Home Again – Behind the Orange Curtain

Posted in Clustr Maps, Daily Life, Family, Geography, Kids, Life, Living in California, National Parks, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Home…finally…from WA
Then a Road trip…CA-AZ-UT-NV-CA
3 national parks, one state park and a cave in 6 days
Clustr Maps part II
Geography lessons
Stay tuned
Coming Soon:   Forks – The Great Adventure

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Clustr Maps: Connect the DOTS! Part I

Posted in Clustr Maps, Dogs, Embarrassing Family Stories, Family, Geography, Humor, Life, Personal, Pets, Relationships, Travel, YouTube, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I love maps; I studied geography in college, not as part of my career goals, but just because it was interesting. 
When my friend and blogging buddy told me about ClustrMaps and I saw the link info on her site, it looked like fun. 
I like seeing where the people who visit my blog come from.  It makes [...]

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