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Tag: road trip

  • The Shut-Up Places

    The Shut-Up Places

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    My kids and Leon and I are like a traveling road show. We spent the long weekend traveling down to the Monterey area to see our parents. Noah was in great form all weekend, if by “great” you mean “really whiny, oddly hungry, and also full of hilarious one-liners.” In other words, he’s four and…

  • Solo Bike Ride

    Solo Bike Ride

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    Riding uphill Out of breath Sing a little song The wheels sing with me   Looking down Rugged coast, rocky ocean White church, sharp steeple Quaint Unknown lives   A little lost Downhill Estuary’s quiet waters Slippery gravel   Bunny!   Peace Quiet redwood forest Daisy path Snowy flowers peppered with Yellow buttercups   Quickening…

  • I’m Not Cut Out for This

    I’m Not Cut Out for This

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    I’m not cut out for this. I turn around in my seat, having just finished hollering something ineffective and useless like, “I mean it!” And the children don’t care, and they aren’t listening, and I am filled with rage. I’m not cut out for this parenting thing. We are on our way back from Lake…

  • That Was a Sick Road Trip

    That Was a Sick Road Trip

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    Some of you have said that you are hoping for a blog post out of my trip to Mendocino with the three kids. Well, I’m not saying that won’t happen (we’ve only been here two hours). The drive sucked in the ways that all family drives suck. Nothing outlandish happened, however. But the fact that…

  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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    So, it may come as no surprise that I hate my car, a minivan that I never really wanted. But it turns out that it knows this, and it has started to punish me. It started subtly–randomly setting off its own panic device when I was out with it in public, and occasionally short-circuiting its…