Now that Sue has returned home, washed all her laundry, dropped the fake British accent and stopped dreaming about mushy peas, it is time for our next trip. For those of you who have forgotten, we are driving from our home in Chicago to the Grand Canyon & Moab UT. This is the planned itinerary: …
Author: Steven
I am a money grubbing capitalist pig, but actually not very good it. I am 20 lbs overweight, but go the gym reasonably often. I have absolutely no concept of how hard the things I want to do are…until I have agreed to do them. I've got a couple of adult kids who live far away and a career that has me sitting at a desk all day.
Things is like: baseball, a really good gin & tonic, my convertible, and warm weather.
Things I am not so keen on: heights, overpriced food and having nothing to do.
Just an old fashioned Saab story
Our magic carpet for our road trips is a 2006 Saab 9-3 convertible with 120k miles on it. It is a joy to drive, especially in the wide open spaces with the top and windows rolled down. It is fast, hugs the road and accelerates like a dream. We love driving it. I am always …
A whole raft of thoughts
While Sue is heads-down planning her trip to London, I have turned my eye to the whitewater rafting portion of our trip to the Southwest. Who knew that doing an overnight whitewater rafting trip would require a 13-page preparatory document? I've seen articles in Scientific American less detailed than this. The only thing that seems …
Grandiose Plans
While Sue is getting ready for her trip to London, I will be gearing up for our next journey – a road trip to the Grand Canyon & then whitewater rafting in Utah. We had scheduled this trip before we won the one to Hawaii; we don’t usually have two trips in consecutive months, just …
Hawaii – Wrap up
I don’t really have too much to write for this post; just some reflections and odds & ends. Hawaii is really gorgeous. There are something like 14 of the 16 types of ecosystems on Maui. The climate seems to change on a mile by mile basis. There is so much natural beauty packed into such …
Homeward Bound
Our last day on the islands (so sad). We had a 1pm flight from Honolulu to LA then a 2 hour layover and onward to Chicago. We arrived at 6am on Saturday. All in the elapsed travel time - including airport time and taxi home was about 15 hours; a pretty long day. The flights …
Dive & Thai
Wednesady’s adventures: scuba and Thai food.
Today we are going to sit by the pool
At least we were going to sit by the pool right after I had a surfing lesson. I signed up for a 10am lesson through Surf & Yoga in Kihei...about 10 mins away...2 hour lesson, then right to the pool. The lesson was great! Eddie, my instructor, had me up after only about 10 minutes …
The Gasoline Lemonade Acid War Zone Trail
My apologies to Tom Wolfe, but I couldn’t resist (if you don’t get the joke, google Tom Wolfe, find the book and read it). Today started with my company meeting. Everyone was forced to make important decisions at 9:00 — I went for the Bloody Mary, not the Mimosa — it was a brutal meeting …
Travel day
It has been a very long travel day. We left our house at 8am CST and arrived in our hotel room at 7pm in the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone. Adjusting that back to CST, it is midnight. That is the thing about traveling, flying time was about 10 hours, but the elapsed time was 16 hours. …
