The Something’s Burning Vacation Memory

Published by admin under Vacations on January 21, 2008

My daughter and I have just been “virtually visiting”, chatting online, and remembering something that happened on one of our vacations that was so funny, at least to us, maybe it’s one of those “you have to be there” kind of things, but I can’t resist posting this.

We had all piled into the Ford Taurus for a “spontaneous” unplanned vacation to Philadelphia, PA. We thought we’d just find an inexpensive hotel outside of town, and see the historic sites, and maybe a museum or two. Well it really helps to plan where you want to go and how to get there before you do something like that, we discovered. After a frustrating day of trying to find our way around, Paul did one of his quick pull-off-the-road things that he’s famous for, onto a dirt island of sorts, with some tall grass. I was afraid the grass would get set on fire with the hot muffler, and it lead to some funny when you look back on it arguing. Right then and there we decided to leave Philadelphia behind, and head for the shore, Long Beach Island. So we pulled out, and oh my, did we ever smell something awful, and I said “see, I told you we’d start a fire”, but it felt like we were dragging something.

So Paul got out, got down on his hands and knees, looked under the car, and found a dead goose stuck to the muffler…it must have been in that tall grass and we couldn’t see it. He had to run and get a stick to “unstuck” it so we could move on…but the laughs we had when it happened, and have had since, made for a great vacation memory. OH, and we had a GREAT time once we got to LBI, there’s nothing like a sunrise and sunset over the ocean, my favorite times to be on the beach.

Colorado or Bust!

Published by admin under Vacations on January 12, 2008

My husband just uploaded a few pictures from our trip to Colorado a year ago last September. One of the first spots we took time to enjoy was Independence Pass. This is a fairly extreme climb by car, and was a quick way to get this flat-lander wife of his used to looking over the side…with nothing much between the car and the drop, to the tops of trees WAAAYYYY down below!

But I must tell you the views were spectacular! The picture above is one of his pictures. If you want to see a few more, “click” the picture, and you’ll be taken to his page on Webshots.

In years past, as the children were growing up, we made 2 road trips with them all the way out to Colorado. One when they were small in our pickup that had a cap over the back. Paul put a bench seat in the back, and a mattress over the rest of the floor, and the children traveled back there fairly comfortably, while we enjoyed ourselves in the cab up front. There was a sliding window between us and the kids, so we were able to talk and keep close tabs. We pulled a pop-up camper with us, and when we finally arrived at our destination, camped along the Colorado River in the Glenwood Springs area. This was by far the most memorable trip for our children, we hope the making of good memories for them in days to come.