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

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Nebraska - Phoebe's Report

Alright, this is a BIG day. It all starts when I wake up in the morning. Alright, here we go.

I get up, I get dressed, blah blah blah. And we start on our big Oregon Trail which is called Oregon or Bust. Well, we drive about half the way and we stop at Fort Kearney. You know what Fort Kearney is, right? Fort Kearney is a place where you can go up on these giant tower thingies and look over the fence. And if you're too small, you can just stand on these porch thingies--well, not a porch--and you can see fine. Fine fine fine fine fine fine.



Anyway, I got up on these huge towers and they were amazing. I mean, like, totally amazing. We saw the blacksmith's shop and see all the things they used to work with and they used to work very hard. And I also climbed up on this huge covered wagon. It was black, but it was kind of slow...there was no oxen and there was nothing in it. Imagine that, they had to go all this way until they could stop and repack and do all that stuff.



And then we went off and we started driving again. We got to the hotel and then we went out to eat some Chinese food. And now I'm having a delightful time going to bed. Get back to you soon--as soon as possible.

Phoebe
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2 comments:

Yvonne LC said...

As of this morning (Friday, July 20), the Red Sox are 7 games ahead of the Yankees.

Just a thing I heard on NPR this morning.

July 20, 2007 at 6:53 AM
Yvonne LC said...

Forgot to add: Safe trip to your Harry Potter party tonight, have fun, and tell us all about it!

July 20, 2007 at 6:57 AM

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