Tag: travel

I have relatives who live in the greater LA area.  We arranged to meet up with them for lunch on Sunday in Encino.  We arrived a little early just to make sure we didn’t get stuck in traffic and played in a park for a while. Lunch was great.  It’s always nice catching up with…

If you followed the previous post closely, you probably noticed that Debi’s conference was in Anaheim but we spent the first night in San Diego.  That’s because I know someone in San Diego who runs a Humanist group and she arranged to have me speak to her group about my book.  That’s what I did…

One of the luxuries of being on sabbatical is that I can pretty much take a trip whenever I want.  Debi had a conference in Anaheim (at the Anaheim Convention Center about a block away from Disneyland) in early October and I had some frequent flyer miles.  That meant Debi’s work would cover her airfare,…

There isn’t much to report for the last day of our nearly month-long vacation. We left Dallas around 8:30 and drove almost straight through to our house (we stopped for food and gas).  We could have broken this up as we had time, but there wasn’t anything we wanted to see more than we wanted…

From where we spent the night (in West Texas), we drove to Dallas, crossing a big chunk of Texas on the way.  I’ve flown into Texas and driven through parts of it (East, North, and far West Texas), but this was the first time I’d driven through oil country.  It was… Interesting.  It smelled like…

We didn’t have too far to go this day.  We picked up some supplies in Flagstaff, then headed east toward Albuquerque.  We stopped on the way at the Barringer Crater, which I visited in 2007. The Crater was formed by a meteorite and is pretty impressive.  Toren seemed interested in the museum that is there,…

We got up early this morning and began getting everything ready to go.  Our timing for Lake Powell was off a bit and we ended right at the end of the week.  This was the day everyone was leaving, and that means a lot of work.  We were ready to help get everything cleaned up,…

We spent all of this day at Lake Powell as well.  I got up early to go skiing with some of my nieces and nephews.  I got some skiing in.  It’s amazing how well muscle-memory works.  I can still slalom, though I’m sure I’ve lost some of my form from when I was younger.  And…

We got a fairly early start from Moab, leaving Debi’s family, and headed for Lake Powell.  This was the second time I’d approached Lake Powell from the south (Hall’s Crossing); the first was in high school on a work trip with Tyler McConville (good times).  It took about 4 hours from Moab and we had…