42 PENNIES: More time travel

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

Saturday, July 21, 2007

More time travel

Just FYI, I've updated some of the back-posts (and keep checking because I'm trying to catch up). There's a video that you might like to see in the post called "Lawrence Kansas to Hastings, Nebraska" from July 18th.

Oh, and for those of you who have been wondering (as I'm CERTAIN you have) if there is something on the BACK of our snazzy Oregon or Bust T-shirts...here it is:

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: mah dear little missies,

Ah was feelin’ right poorly today and it was a rainin’ too so ah got to thinkin’ it was a mahty good day for readin’ 'ur bloggin thang.
well, ah got ta’ cookin and got mah vittles on whahl my side-kick, Cowdawg “Liftin Leg” Sparky swept tha floor with his nose. tonight it’s red beans n rice, cornbread n’ greens. Whoa doggie! Ah NEVAH and ah mean NEVAH woulda thought little Liftin’ Leg woulda gone fer them greens but thar’ he wahz just scoopin’ those critters up! Ya jus’ NEVAH--and I mean NEVAH-- know bout’ those little cow-dawggies. Ah hope your grub tonight is as good as ours.

Ya might be wonderin’ how a Cowgirrrl like me got to the end of the Oregon Trail an’ then sum inta’ some ahland in washington. Wahl ah rode tha mighty FIRE BOLT to the MIGHTY WEST COAST an’ said, “This beats the heck out of anywherah else!!” (edited for youngsters and those who are overly PC) Yep. tha’s all there is to it.

Ah know, ah know. ya’ll might be a thinkin’, “Wah doesn’t she sound like she’s from tha mid-west?” and ya’ll’d be right. But, if ya’ll out there know how to put a nasal twang’ inta’ writen’, ah’d like ta know… an’ ‘member: up thar above? ah nevah (and ah mean nevah) sayd whar’ I was from.

Ah gotta tell ya’ll though: ah loved, an’ I MEAN LOVED bein’ in that movin’ thang and listen’n to “On the Road Again”. Why, it jus’ really made me feel ah was in the car with ya’ll…

which I’d love to be… keep safe, have an enormous amount of fun and I truly hope it works out that I can meet you in Portland.
Love,
Patty; July 21, 2007 at 6:13 PM
42pennies said...: Y'all have a lot to say! I say, cowdowgie Sparky must be havin' a busy time with y'all feedin' him greens! (this part is from Phoebe)

You gave us the best laugh of the day, and that's saying somethin'! Just in time, too, as Phoebe got herself some real western duds today!

Thanks for chimin' in!!

Robin; July 21, 2007 at 10:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Oregon Trail trivia question from lil' Liftin Leg:

Why are cigars called "stogies"?; July 22, 2007 at 9:36 AM
Eastbound Mama said...: STOGIE:
Short for Conestoga, Pennsylvania (USA). The term stogie dates back to the early 1800’s when this town was famous for its rough, cigar-smoking locals.

(from www.best-cigar.com/faq1.html)

(I have been living with Robin for long enough to find this while she's driving...); July 22, 2007 at 6:28 PM