We began Aimee’s birthday with a great breakfast at Bob’s in Rapid City, and then made the long trek across South Dakota, with the trifecta of The Corn Palace in Mitchell, The Badlands, and Wall Drug. The Corn Palace was as interesting as ever, with, of course, a different set of murals than the last […]

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Saturday morning, we left Madison and headed north to the Wisonsin Dells, the ultimate aimless tourist spot. Waterparks, haunted houses, motels, waterskiing shows, and lots of people… Like every good tourist mecca, the Dells have a Mystery or Wonder Spot, and we made that our first stop. Half the reason I enjoy going to these […]

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In our quest to drive every major highway in the US in a month, we now find ourselves in Madison, Wisconsin, on day three of our second road trip of the summer. After a calm but exhausting last day of packing on Tuesday, the movers showed up on Wednesday at 8 am, and we moved […]

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Never a dull moment here in moving-land… We returned from Los Angeles Wednesday night, and after a brief spurt of packing on Thursday, we headed to Boston to be with Aimee’s family for the weekend. Friday and Saturday were spent hanging out with the kids in Portsmouth, as well as with lots of family friends […]

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The lease is signed, the keys (and remote control to the gate) have been handed over, and we officially have an apartment in West Hollywood. The place has basically all of our must-haves (2 parking spaces, 2 bedrooms) and many of our would-like-to-haves (laundry in the unit, central air/heat, a working fireplace, dishwasher, extra half […]

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It’s been an exhausting first day in LA, though you wouldn’t know it, looking at the odometer. We drove 40 miles in four hours of driving between 7:45 am and 7:00 pm, looking at apartments in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Culver City, We found some good ones, some bad ones, and some that I […]

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Nine years is a long time: when George and I drove across the country after graduation in 1997, I certainly had never heard of wireless internet; now, it’s our fourth night on the road and we have yet to stay somewhere without it, from a Holiday Inn Express in Rushville, Indiana to the Blue Swallow […]

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Magnum and I at the Hollywood Wax Museum in Branson, Missouri yesterday. Aimee and I headed out on Saturday from Rochester through Conneaut, Ohio for root beer and turkey sandwiches and spent the night in Rushville, Indiana. Yesterday, we made our way through St Louis for lunch with Nadia and her family, and then on […]

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