Category Travel
Appalachian Trail – Bluff Trail
A good friend of mine from law school, Amy, moved to DC after finishing a clerkship in Iowa, and we’ve been making a concerted effort to get out of the city more to explore the various hiking trails in the region. We’ve both spent considerable time in the Rockies, and we both readily admit to […]
Boise – Fun in the sun
Another hot and sunny day in Idaho. Fortunately there’s a splash park just down the block! All that dancing has a way of catching up with little girls. Shae didn’t even make it through snacks before zonking out. Sleeping Beauty
Boise – Happy Birthday
Teya turns two today! Since Ammon had to leave this morning to fly back to New York, we celebrated yesterday. Don’t be fooled by the pink flower wrapping paper — the hit toy for this little girl was the green motorcycle. Proof that my parents understand how children work: After all of Teya’s birthday presents were distributed and […]
Ancient History
During my pre-blog travels I relied on emails to keep my family and friends au courant of my adventures. To consolidate everything in one place (and make these stories more accessible than the “sent” box of my email), I’m going back and entering them as blog posts. I’ve already added my Central America trip in 2008, […]
Boise – Chocolate Cake
Each of my parents has a favorite dessert. Mon père loves applie pie, so Lady has developed some knock-out apple pie recipes over the years. Lady, on the other hand, loves dark chocolate cake, so mon père has spent the past twenty years perfecting his to-die-for chocolate cake. And perfect it he has. His secret formula (which includes […]
Boise – Family Photos
First, we went to church, where the youth speaker taught us that there are two teams in this life: Team Hot and Team Cool, and that you couldn’t be on both at the same time. (Initially I was disappointed, since I’ve secretly always wanted to be on Team Hot and Cool — then I realized he was talking […]
Boise – Day 1
At long last, and without further trials and tribulations, I arrived in Boise! Mon pere and Mark met me at the airport in Mark’s open-topped Jeep, which made for a fun and windy ride home. Boy, was it nice to be back in the land of low humidity! Lady, Heather and Ashley were all still in Rexburg […]
Mollified (a little bit)
Check for cracks in the universe. Or flying pigs. Or freezing temperatures in hell. Something’s clearly afoot. Since when does an airline put its stranded passengers up in a hotel and give them meal vouchers? Whatever happened to the good old days when we were kicked to the curb and told to fend for ourselves? […]
So, so mad
It never fails. Late-summer travel from the east coast to or through the midwest is always an absolute nightmare — especially when I try to do do a long weekend with family or friends. One year I spent 12 hours sitting in JFK and then slept on the floor of the Salt Lake Airport on my […]
On the road again
A mere two weeks after my adventures in Peru, I find myself once more in the airport. This time, I’m on my way to Boise, Idaho, for a long weekend with my family. It’s allegedly the first time all of my family will be in the same place since my sister Ashley got married some […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 