42 PENNIES: No Time Like the Present

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 19, 2007

No Time Like the Present

I set up this blog today, in hopes that we will keep working on it throughout our trip in July and August, enabling you to keep your eye on us and us to keep in touch with you! As of now, we're still at home, with Robin still working on the planning and the packing, and finishing up chorus obligations, and Phoebe having a laid back first week off of school. Next week, Phoebe takes off for a week with Audrey to visit Aunt Susan in Phoenix (in the summer....whew!) and up to Hell Creek Montana for this year's stint at the dinosaur dig. (for real...check it out at www.paleoworld.org). Then back home to chill out for a few days, watch fireworks, go to the local 4th of July fair, and then we're on the road!

Today, Phoebe and I went to AAA to get tourbooks, maps, and campground guides for all of our locations...exciting! She was so goofy there, she made everyone waiting in line laugh when it became clear that her answer to every question I could possibly ask was "Oregon!". Here's a photo of her looking at the U.S. map on the floor of the AAA office...the first in what I hope will be a long line of photos associated with this exciting adventure!

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