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 7, 2007

Update

Robin here. By now, some of you may be logging in to the blog, thinking "Hey, she said that July 6 was the first day out, and so there should be news to report!". And you would be right, there should be news to report. But, as some of you know (and many of you don't) life has interceded in perhaps the cruelest of ways.

Last Thursday, June 28, amidst a flurry of trip preparations, my father suddenly became very seriously ill and on Friday, June 29, he passed away. Phoebe was with Audrey at a repeat visit to the dinosaur dig in Jordan, Montana, but we all converged on the night of the 29th in the San Francisco Bay Area, where my family lives and where I grew up. Audrey and Phoebe have now returned home to Boston, but I am still here in California, and have to be back here to assist my mother a few times during the summer.

So, unavoidably, there have been some trip modifications. But take heart. We are still going. It's going to be a little oddly scheduled, it won't be quite as long, and we aren't going to be able to do both the Trail of Tears and the Oregon Trail, as we are losing a bit more than a week (in all likelihood, none of this is set in stone yet). We are planning on leaving on the Oregon Trail sometime at the end of this week or at the beginning of next week, though I have to get myself back to Boston first!

As you can see, all is still up in the air, but the trip is still on (we have to go--we had T-shirts made!) and the blog is still happening. Please stay tuned, have patience, keep checking in on us, and join us as we get on the road.

My thanks to all of you who have so kindly sent condolences and greetings during this rough time. We're all getting through, and my ability to move on is not in small part due to the support of so many wonderful people...like you. Thanks again, and we'll see you on the Trail.

Love,
Robin (and Phoebe in absentia)
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