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King of the Road. (Day 7 of the Cross-Country Road Trip, with Guest Blogger...
I’m pleased to welcome Maurice, our 14-year-old cat, as a guest blogger on Imperfect Happiness. He’s written for our family’s holiday newsletter several times (in his popular column, “Kitty Korner”),...
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MA to DC Road Trip 2012, Day 2: Turtle Playground!
In Delaware, my children talked me into buying them candy and road maps at a gas station convenience store. I think they could sense that my resistance was weak after our night in the hotel and the...
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MA to DC Road Trip 2012 Day 3: The Pentagon is BORING!
On Tuesday, my dad offered to give us a tour of the Pentagon. They offer guided tours to the public, but since he works there, he could give us a condensed tour better suited to the interests of my...
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MA to DC Road Trip 2012 Day 4: The Mall
On Wednesday, we visited a different kind of mall: The Mall. I’d promised the kids a reflecting pool, but it was torn up for renovations. They didn’t seem to mind. They like construction equipment. We...
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MA to DC Road Trip 2012, Day 5: The National Zoo
When we first moved to Northern Virginia in 1990, we visited the National Zoo. I’d lived my young childhood in San Diego, and we were frequent visitors to the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park. If...
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MA to DC Road Trip 2012 Day 6: Home
Friday morning, we packed up, said goodbye to Grandpa, and drove northward again. I was inordinately thrilled when “America” came up on the iPod and Simon and Garfunkel sang, “counting the cars on the...
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Midwestern Meander 2012: The Ohio Leg
“Midwestern Meander” is the name I’ve given the road trip we took in late June 2012. We traveled from our home in New England to Niagara Falls, across Ontario to visit family in Michigan, the rest of...
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Midwestern Meander 2012: New England to Niagara Falls
It’s eight hours from our house to Niagara Falls. Because my kids are champion road-trippers, this wasn’t actually as hellish as many people might expect. We listened to several of Beverly Cleary’s...
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Midwestern Meander 2012: The Michigan Challenge Balloon Fest
We visit our families in Ohio and Michigan most years, and each time we visit, my father-in-law suggests two or three venues or events that we just can’t miss. With younger kids, we often missed most...
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Midwestern Meander 2012: Greenfield Village
Photos from our visit to Greenfield Village outside of Detroit, Michigan. For those unfamiliar with Greenfield Village, it’s the location to which Henry Ford had bunches of historic locations trucked...
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Weekly Walk 38 1/2: Prince Edward Island
When last we met, my family had just spent a couple of days wandering by car, foot, and boat around Bar Harbor, Maine, and Acadia National Park. Once I’d done enough lunges up the sides of mountains,...
View ArticleCorner-to-Corner Road Trip: Day 1
Central Massachusetts to Northeast Ohio (via Pennsylvania, pictured below) Distance: 621 miles of 3,156 total miles (19.6%) Driving Time: 12 hours (should have been closer to 9.5) Temperature Range:...
View Article2017: My Year in Books
Here at the end of 2017, I’m in the midst of my 17th relocation since I graduated high school (and my 23rd move since birth (not including the relocation from my mother’s uterus into the world at...
View ArticleCorner-to-Corner Road Trip: Day 2
Northeast Ohio Distance: 0 of 3,156 total miles (still 19.6% of the total trip; this was a zero day set aside for visiting family, including my baby niece, for New Year’s Eve) Driving Time: Not...
View ArticleCorner-to-Corner Road Trip: Day 3
Northeast Ohio to Jackson, Tennessee (where we had catfish, po’boys, and steak for dinner) Distance: 634 miles (1,255 of 3,156 total miles (39.8% of the total trip)) Driving Time: 10 hours (including...
View ArticleCorner-to-Corner Road Trip: Day 4
Jackson, Tennessee to Hot Springs, Arkansas (where we visited Hot Springs National Park) Distance: 273 miles (1,528 of 3,156 total miles (48.4% of the total trip)) Driving Time: 4 hours Temperature...
View ArticleCorner-to-Corner Road Trip: Day 5
Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Abilene, Texas (which is the Storybook Capital of America and in the downtown of which we visited a variety of fairy-tale-inspired sculptures (Goldilocks and the Three Bears...
View ArticleCorner-to-Corner Road Trip: Day 6
Abilene, Texas, to Las Cruces, New Mexico (where chilies are a very popular ingredient and where they also have cool public sculpture, like “Eagle Man” pictured below) Distance: 497 miles (2502 of...
View ArticleCorner-to-Corner Road Trip: Day 7
Las Cruces, New Mexico (where we took a morning hike at Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, pictured below) to Tucson, Arizona (where we met up with one of my friends I haven’t seen since...
View ArticleCorner-to-Corner Road Trip: Day 8
Tucson, Arizona (where we took a morning hike at Saguaro National Park, pictured below) to San Diego, California, our destination for this road trip. Distance: 417 miles (3,198 of 3,198 total miles...
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