Tag: travel

Part of the reason for driving up the East Coast, in addition to visiting family, was visiting a few more state highpoints.  After 5 days on the road, we began the highpointing period.  On June 11th we visited two state highpoint: Connecticut and Massachusetts.  I created separate posts for each of those, so you can…

We slept in again, given the long drive the night before. We got up, packed up, ate another continental breakfast, and headed to Steve’s place in Brooklyn.  Even though our hotel was just 5 or 6 miles from his place, it took us 30 minutes to get there.  Luckily we found a place to park…

It was Sunday and my sister and her family were going to church.  They actually left for church before we packed up and left, but were very kind in letting us stay there getting everything ready for the next leg of our journey. I had another book talk lined up for mid-afternoon in Fredericksburg, VA.…

We spent the entire day with my sister.  While we waited for her husband and older boys to get home, Toren played on the swings with his cousin Brent: Her older boys and her husband came home in the morning and in the early afternoon we went out to Great Country Farms, which has a…

We didn’t have to travel very far this day.  Our destination was Durham, NC, where we would be staying with the editor/publisher of my latest book.  He was kind enough to invite us to stay when he heard we’d be passing through.  Plus, he has a young daughter a couple years older than Toren so…

With Debi completing her PhD and me getting tenure and landing a sabbatical, we decided June 2013 would be the ideal time to take a long vacation.  With our many interests and varied obligations, what we finally decided on was a very long road trip up the East Coast, across the Midwest to Utah, and…

This was our last day working at Plenitud.  We put in the standard morning work day, but there were a couple of differences.  First, the students prevailed on the staff at Plenitud, who are predominantly vegetarian, to kill some of the chickens and cook them for dinner that night.  One of the students grew up…

This was our second excursion.  Typically the volunteering trips only have one excursion per trip, but the staff at Plenitud insisted we take two.  For this one, we headed to Playa Sucia, which is Spanish for “dirty beach.”  But it really wasn’t that dirty (there was some trash just north of the beach, but the…

This was another work day.  I don’t recall the details of what we did, but here’s another picture from Plenitud: We typically found work to do in the learning center in the afternoon when it rained.  On this afternoon we shucked a massive container of peanuts.  While we worked I told the students stories about…

We worked in the morning again.  But one of the staff members had also heard about a Jazz Festival in Mayaguez, about an hour away from the farm, that afternoon.  Since we kept getting rained out anyway, and because it was a Sunday, we ended up going out to the Jazz Festival that afternoon/evening.  While…