We’ve discussed getting rid of XM Radio for several months now. It’s about $17 a month and Zak doesn’t use it anymore. However, after this trip I won’t ever get rid of it! It is so amazing. We’ve been across the country and back and have not had a single blip in the radio. We […]

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It’s 12:08am and we’re about a half an hour from the hotel. For some unknown reason, the girls both took about a 3 hour nap this afternoon and are just as perky as can be now. Ellie is sleepy, but still participating in the silly conversation Zak and Zoe are having. Zoe is just giddy […]

Read More Night driving

We decided to stop for the night in Lacrosse. Looks like one more day of vacation. It’s 11 now and we have about 1.5 to go. Both girls are wide awake eating cereal. As Zoe said a few minutes ago “it’s ok, it’s vacation time!”

Read More Change of Plans

Well, we’re heading home. There has been no cell phone service the past couple of days, so we haven’t been able to update. We made our way through Utah and into Wyoming on Sunday. Zoe got pretty carsick, so we called it a day much sooner than we had planned. We finished the drive to […]

Read More The final days

15 days 12 states 1 bandaid (zoe scraped the back of her heel at the pool at MGM) 23 approximate number of hours per day Ellie sucked her pacifier…there goes that summer goal 6 boxes of cereal 20 pounds of snack food for car 54 gas station bathrooms 1 really crappy meal (casa bonita in […]

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Favorite Thing We’ve Done Z:Go up in the mountains E:Go in the tunnel (the arches at Arches national park) Favorite hotel: Z:The fancy one because it was comfy Favorite thing we ate: Z: pancakes from Uncle Bill’s in Manhattan Beach E: Goldfish (she is currently eating goldfish) They also like the ice cream sandwiches and […]

Read More Interview Part 2

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve written an update. I’ve been doing a lot of the driving the past couple days and we’ve been getting into hotels late, but thanks to Mol for her updates. LA was a lot of fun, it was great to spend a couple days lounging on the beach. […]

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Day 12 or something like that. And we’re still going strong! We had spent the night in a charming mountain village and woke to fresh, crisp air, hot coffee, and prepackaged muffins for breakfast. (All the negative reviews online were about the crappy breakfast, but a free muffin is free, prepackaged or not!) Anyway, the […]

Read More Yosemite

We’ve had another wonderful day. It started with a very lovely continental breakfast in our posh hotel and then a wonderful morning at the beach. We were at Manhattan Beach which is so beautiful. Zoe and Ellie loved watching the dozen or so surfers that were in the water the whole time we were there. […]

Read More Another wonderful day

We made it to the ocean! Yay! But I’ll go back a few days first. We had such a wonderful visit with my great aunt. She is an amazing woman who has been an important part of my life from the  get go. She is so full of love and generosity and kindness and it […]

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