Author Archives: Janet

Highway 1, Big Sur, California, has always been on the top of my “Most Stunning Drive” list.  But Lander to Cheyenne yesterday shot right up the list.  I stopped so many times, poor Bella did not even look up after a while. The light kept changing, the shapes kept changing.  Finally, it got dark.  Whew. […]

I’ve quickly come to realize that there’s no way I will keep a chronological blog of this road trip.  I’m already hopelessly behind, and was never good at keeping a diary. So instead of a place-by-place travelogue, I’ll share what draws my attention as I cross this incredibly vast country.  People draw my attention.  Here […]

I was finally headed out of Washington when the funny little light went on.  It looked sort of this: ( ! ) I had to pull over and dig out Ralph’s manual.  (Ralph is my Rav4, usually so nice and solid.) Translation of funky ittle symbol:  Low tire pressure.  My first thought was:  I am […]

  A Facebook friend was surprised I am still in Washington. Me too, but I figured it out:  When you have four sisters, and you’re not the oldest, not the youngest, and not one of the twins, you don’t really have a special designation in the family. But in this house, in that long ago […]

Luke, 12, fell in love with Bella at first sight, it seemed.  Like a lot of dogs, she has an innate sense of what people might need.  Luke is high functioning, and his T-shirt is right out there.  It says, “I’m autistic, what’s your excuse for being weird?”  

When I asked Russ if he had any fears for me on this trip, he answered with one word:  bears.  I swallowed my snicker and nodded politely. Huh, I thought, nor muggers or murderers or marauders.  Bears. I didn’t expect to be any where near the creatures. So it was a little ironic that my […]

In 10 days, I’m leaving on a cross-country road trip. I’ll be posting a lot more, but at the moment, I’m bleary eyed after a long day of finishing my web site.  It’s been fun and frustrating, but I think I’ve got it figured out and am ready to take the site  live.  Kind of […]