What's All This About, Then?
(aka Your Many Questions Indelicately Answered)
(hint #1: scroll down and this won't be as hard to read. You're welcome.)
We go on trips. Road trips. Other trips. But mostly road trips. Sometimes (ideally) long ones. Sometimes not.
Yes, this is the same blog as the one about the Oregon Trail. Yes, it used to have a stagecoach and a dusty feel to it, which went along with the Oregon Trail very nicely. Yes, that was a great trip. That was three years ago. (the blog is still here if you want to read it...it starts here)
So...as we embark on the latest chapter of our roamin' ways, we want to invite you to come along. First, we might get lonely. I mean, we don't really get lonely much, but it's possible. Second, you might miss us. Third, you just might be nosy. And fourth, we are notoriously and and historically bad at sending postcards, circulating photos, keeping up with a scrapbook; as a matter of fact, with documenting our trip in most every way. We figured this might be the 21st century solution. It worked for the last trip, which was (as you know) three years ago (sniff). So we're keeping it going.
We hope you'll pop in, read about where we are, what we're doing, see photos of our adventures, and experience our gypsy hardships (like no room service) vicariously! Most importantly, we hope you'll add your comments and greetings, which we will get when we get to one of our stopping points. Souvenir requests will receive due consideration (Hint #1: Success is highly correlated with tackiness).
For those so inclined (you know who you are), we will also list links to related sites so that you can learn with us as we learn on the road, and maybe visit some of the same sights in the future!
Happy Trails to us all!
Love, Phoebe and Robin
Getting Ready
More excitement every day! Today I highlighted all of our routes in detail on a map of the U.S. and noted travel times between destinations. Also, a box of books arrived from Amazon! It included our guidebook for the Oregon Trail, several children's books with stories of the trail from a child's perspective, a book of first-person narratives from pioneers, and a book that looks really compelling written by Jerry Ellis, who walked the entire length of the Trail of Tears in honor of his Cherokee ancestors. We've only had a chance to glance at them, but every thing looks really interesting so far. We now know that we'll be passing through hot open prairies, but also encountering waterfalls, huge rocks to climb, and rivers, small and large! If you're interested in reading more, check out these links to some of the books and you can take the adventure along with us!
p.s. oh, and for all you do-gooders out there...I ordered the books from Amazon through the link on the Voices Rising website. If you don't already do this when you order from Amazon, you might want to think about it. You choose your favorite non-profit (like, say, Voices Rising...hey, you're catching on!) and go to Amazon through the link on the organization's website, rather than directly in your browser (for Voices Rising, it's on the "Donation" page of www.voicesrising.org). Then you buy your books, music, movies, lawnmower, whatever, and the organization gets a cut from Amazon. No difference in price to you. Think about it. As Martha Stewart says, It's A Good Thing.
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