42 PENNIES: So What Do 42 Pennies Have to Do With Anything?

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

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

So What Do 42 Pennies Have to Do With Anything?

Well, we'll tell you. Before this trip was the Oregon Trail Trip, while we were awaiting the trip muses, it was The Penny Trip. We were going to travel wildly, pure adventure, flipping coins to decide where to go next. Then we had this idea, and we ran with it, but Robin was a little bit sad because she liked the penny thing, with its freedom and sense of fun. So we kept it after all, and incorporated it into these plans.

But why 42, you ask? Well, the most logical answer is that we're going to be on the road for 42 days, so we have a penny to flip every day, a decision to be left to chance, every day. We intend to blog about the penny flips--what and where each of them brought us. For those of you not easily placated, it also has a more personal meaning, something to do with library fines in the 1950's, but we're going to have to just leave it at that. You don't have to know everything. But feel free to make something up and post it to the comments section. We love stories. If you make up something really good, we'll bring you a present!

1 comment:

Julia and Leora said...: For Phoebe:
I have five coins that add up to $0.42 and two of them aren't pennies. What coins do I have?; June 28, 2007 at 11:12 AM

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