Sunday I joined my sister’s family for church and a visit to the farmer’s market in Beacon. I tasted some really good chocolate goat milk, which is totally a real thing. While chocolate goat milk is a pretty good surprise, the biggest surprise of the day was making a surprise connection with friends of my…

A View to a Life
Flexibility is a part of living with family. You adjust and accommodate so that you can do life together. Visiting family with a young child, I knew that I had to make accommodations as to what I could and could not do with family. Upon hearing about the world’s longest elevated pedestrian bridge in the…

A Brand New Start Of It… After a Hiccup
So a couple days before heading out on my road trip to New York, I received word that a new car registration sticker came in the mail for my car. So I attached the sticker to my license plate, and then I looked at the new registration card. It was for another car in the…

A Hurt Booty: Preparations for the New York Road Trip
When I decided to go to New York for my first road trip of this blog, I didn’t have a whole lot of time to prepare for the trip. I had thought about the road trip blog a couple weeks from my departure trip, and finalized plans about 10 days before leaving to spend June…

Let’s Get it Started—Ha!
As I considered how to get started with road tripping, I thought about the fact that a lot of people have done road tripping. A LOT. Jack Kerouac had his road tripping novel On the Road, Kevin Costner starred in a road tripping adventure Field of Dreams, and many ordinary Americans have done road tripping…