June 2010

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01-June-2010 our life. daily. Babies really are amazing. The way they are constantly changing, growing, and learning. We started solid food ten days ago. At the time she could hardly get any of it in her mouth and down her throat. Now we can’t shovel it in fast enough. 02-June-2010 … Read More

May 2010

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01-May-2010 7:16 AM It’s been funny that ever since we said we were looking at getting a boat again we have received a constant stream of e-mails and facebook messages telling us exactly what we should get. Everybody has an opinion on boats. And apparently a few of those people … Read More

April 2010

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01-Apr-2010 8:54 AM Big things are happening around here. Well, big things for a baby anyway. Ouest rolled over from her belly to her back this morning. Not once, but three times, before becoming too exhausted to pick her head up off the floor anymore. It was pretty cute to … Read More

March 2010

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01-Mar-2010 3:49 PM I don’t know why Ali and I always fret over these flights with Ouest. She’s a better airline passenger than we are. We were at the airport in the dark this morning and she was all smiles. When we boarded the plane she gave a good screaming … Read More

October 2009

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01-Oct-2009 8:50 PM Yesterday we left the Bay Area and headed east to a new Bum friend’s house for a little work on the car. This new friend just happened to have a ’64 Porsche parked in his garage and had offered to help me replace our windshield seal. He … Read More

September 2009

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01-Sept-2009 1:29 PM This morning we went down to the doctor’s office to inquire about our new bill. I stayed in the waiting room while Ali went in to billing. Within a couple of minutes I could hear voices being raised. There was no glass breaking or loud screaming though, … Read More

August 2009

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02-Aug-2009 11:16 PM Man do we ever hate to fly. There is no worse mode of transportation to travel in. Granted you just don’t have a choice sometimes, but if we have the choice of driving 2000 miles or flying we’ll be hitting the road. Our flight from England started … Read More

October 2008

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october 1 2008 : mineral wells, texas, usa After another day of glorious Oklahoman hospitality we loaded up the bus this morning and said our goodbyes. But before we left the Norman Transcript stopped by the house for an interview. It was just your standard run of the mill interview Who are you? … Read More

September 2008

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september 1 2008 : portland, oregon, usa We boogied right on through Canada this time, stopping only to eat and fill up. It rained pretty much right up to the border anyway. We felt like that Pigpen character who always had the dust cloud following him, only for us it … Read More

August 2008

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august 2 2008 : fairbanks, alaska, usa Deadhorse is the end of the line on the Dalton. The guidebook called it anticlimactic and they couldn’t have been more spot on. The scenery gradually went from rolling green hills full of caribou to a flat expanse of nothingness. The road itself … Read More

June 2008

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june 3 2008 : portland, oregon, usa This weekend we drove out to Bend to do some camping. It was about a two hundred mile drive that somehow took Ali and I ten hours to complete. We left Portland on the same route we took to Bend the last time … Read More

May 2008

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may 4 2008 : portland, oregon, usa Today we took the bus for a little drive. We went up to Seattle for a big VW cruise. Not a show mind you, but a cruise. A few hundred buses, bugs, and even a bunch of ugly little street racers, got together … Read More