annular eclipse (noun): A solar eclipse in which the moon covers all but a bright ring around the circumference of the sun. total eclipse (noun): An eclipse in which the entire surface of a celestial body is obscured. When planning…

annular eclipse (noun): A solar eclipse in which the moon covers all but a bright ring around the circumference of the sun. total eclipse (noun): An eclipse in which the entire surface of a celestial body is obscured. When planning…
I just took a look at when I wrote our last blog post. February? I can’t believe it’s been that long ago. Our on-line silence in an indication that our summer did not transpire as we had hoped. The plan…
We decided to “get outta Dodge” for a few weeks…meaning “let’s leave our home build and give ourselves and our builder a breather.” It was time to let him do his thing without us underfoot. Our friends Dan & Amy…
We are back on the road again. After the holidays, we left Rochester and headed west again. We were fortunate to meet up with Jim’s brother and sister-in-law again. They were headed from Wisconsin to the Southeast. We were going…
It has been a good long while since we did a blog post (June 9!). Let’s just say this summer and fall have not been typical nor quite what we expected. I have had to look a calendar to see…
It seems a little weird to be writing this post when Summer has started. I guess that just shows you how late in the “Spring Season” we returned home. We have been home for a couple of weeks. In fact,…
The past month we have been popping in and out of Las Cruces as the build of our house starts. I’m not going to detail all the house progress in this blog, after all this is a travel blog. We…
After Big Bend (was that really a month ago?), we wandered back to Las Cruces to check in with our home builder, then decided to head back to Arizona because, well, it was warmer there. This has been a travel…
Big Bend National park is AWESOME! This is another example of a park that we didn’t know much about and didn’t quite know what to expect (another instance being Death Valley). We managed to get a week’s reservation at Big…
Did you watch the televised hype around Sir Richard Branson becoming the first billionaire to go into space? I did. And I distinctly recall how he rode his bike to the launch site at Spaceport America. (Video can be viewed…