Category Archives: On the Road

GGW – Turning 30 Again

My sidekick Lucy and I got invited to chaperone a friend’s 30th birthday road trip to the Capital City. It’s hard to leave Podunk, even harder when Avalanche Alley — Highway 21 — is closed due to …avalanches. We had to go the long way around, through Kansas and parts of Nebraska. We made it […]
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Curling?

I’ve ventured into British Columbia, Canadia, 3 times so far this winter — and there was a lot to like, above and beyond the fact their hotel industry has realized that decaf coffee should be used instead of sawdust for dance floors. There’s the Canadian Rockies, for instance. And hot springs resorts with really nice […]
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Oh Canada — You Are On To Something

I know I’ve had sort of a checkered past where Canada is concerned, but in the past 6 months, I’ve racked up two consecutive trips to The Attic without mishap. I’ve always thought Canadians could improve their national self-image if they would just do something first-rate. And on my most recent trip to British Columbia, […]
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Highway 12 — What an Obvious Choice

As geography would have it, to get to my new vacation oasis in Cottonwood, Idaho, I have to go through Montana. I hadn’t been on Highway 12 over Lolo Pass for a number of years, but I remembered it as a lovely stretch of blacktop that paralleled the Wild and Scenic Lochsa River, was rich […]
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Excused Absence

So I am most likely the only person on Earth who noticed that I didn’t post anything in October. I’d like to say I pre-empted author Philip Roth, who after an illustrious 50+ year career, announced he was retiring. “I know I’m not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer […]
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Drastic Tactics

Our 15-year-old woman-child, Her Royal Highness, interrupts her beauty routine only to play hockey. Unless you count the aboriginal eyeliner visible beneath her face mask as a beauty routine. I personally find it frightening, but then again, I doll up with Chapstick. Hockey is why, fat after Thanksgiving, I woke up in a hotel room […]
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GGW: the British Columbian Edition

I belong to a club of badly behaved women — the GGW. There are about 12 of us and counting and sometimes we make big group road trips and sometimes we form splinter groups of mini-GGWs. Currently, a mini-GGW with members FishHead and Blondie has invaded Canada. Even though I am somewhat frightened by the […]
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Tell Me Where to Go

I read somewhere that the Salmon-Challis National Forest is like the Sawtooth National Recreation Area but with fewer people. The truth is, once you get away from Ketchum’s Main Street, there aren’t that many people in the SNRA either. A more accurate statement is the Salmon-Challis is like the SNRA but without any signs. The […]
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Tasters Choice

When a child asks you to taste something, it’s never good. Never. If he or she is eating something delicious, they don’t care if you try some; in fact, they would prefer that you did not. I know these things. Still, when the Odd Number required that we go to his favorite Chinese buffet in […]
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Rigby, Idaho — Where TV Was Invented and Vegetable Jell-o is Put on a Pedestal

The Odd Number and I traveled to scenic Rigby, Idaho for his Cal Ripken baseball tournament. That part of the story ends in tragedy — I’ll just say that upfront. There was no joy in Mudville for Odd, who is typically a stellar southpaw pitcher, 1st baseman, hitter, and base runner, even if it is […]
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