The Great North American Road Trip
Jun 20th, 2012, 09:03 AM
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It will take a while to process all of this trip. I am grateful for many outcomes already evident. Places like Santa Barbara, Yosemite and Yellowstone that were just names to me before now have a living presence that I can and will revisit in memory (and maybe in reality). It provided a real transition to see and set aside some of my routines, leaving space to create some new ones.
I would love to be able to post pictures to truly finish this. Following LeeAnn's helpful guidance, I got set up in Picasa, but I can't post the link. The one difference I can see, ElendilPickle, is that your link is http, and I am stuck in https. Would that make any difference, and how would I shift it? Any illumination welcome. I will eventually try out some alternatives, but I have hit my exasperation threshhold for the moment.
I would revisit the ground rules only to add one:
5. Take the alternate and secondary roads rather than the Interstate.
We did that, mostly...and mostly it was the right choice.
Well-intentioned friends offered advice before we left. One piece was that you can't spend all day every day with your spouse. We can! Maybe this one depends on who your spouse is. We had a lot of laughs and only a few tense moments. The other piece was that two months would be too long...we might want to try weeks before months. In fact, we could happily have kept on going, although I would have wanted to get rid of some stuff we were hauling around and didn't need. That's another lesson.
It will take a while to process all of this trip. I am grateful for many outcomes already evident. Places like Santa Barbara, Yosemite and Yellowstone that were just names to me before now have a living presence that I can and will revisit in memory (and maybe in reality). It provided a real transition to see and set aside some of my routines, leaving space to create some new ones.
I would love to be able to post pictures to truly finish this. Following LeeAnn's helpful guidance, I got set up in Picasa, but I can't post the link. The one difference I can see, ElendilPickle, is that your link is http, and I am stuck in https. Would that make any difference, and how would I shift it? Any illumination welcome. I will eventually try out some alternatives, but I have hit my exasperation threshhold for the moment.
I would revisit the ground rules only to add one:
5. Take the alternate and secondary roads rather than the Interstate.
We did that, mostly...and mostly it was the right choice.
Well-intentioned friends offered advice before we left. One piece was that you can't spend all day every day with your spouse. We can! Maybe this one depends on who your spouse is. We had a lot of laughs and only a few tense moments. The other piece was that two months would be too long...we might want to try weeks before months. In fact, we could happily have kept on going, although I would have wanted to get rid of some stuff we were hauling around and didn't need. That's another lesson.
Jun 20th, 2012, 09:28 AM
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I enjoyed reading most (not all of your trip report).
One trick I learned about the heavier things that you pick up along the way is to wrap them in some dirty clothes and mail them home.
My next trip report after I get through with the earlier trip back east for our daughters wedding will be our first trip to Santa Barbara where our son is a student at UCSB. It was great to see the grandsons there.
One trick I learned about the heavier things that you pick up along the way is to wrap them in some dirty clothes and mail them home.
My next trip report after I get through with the earlier trip back east for our daughters wedding will be our first trip to Santa Barbara where our son is a student at UCSB. It was great to see the grandsons there.
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