And it’s in the books. A whirlwind trip to Wisconsin to visit family, and now instead of posting to you from a laptop in a hotel room, I’m writing from my little parlor at home. It’s good to be back, and Rousseau agrees. He’s happy now. It was a fabulous trip for sure, and a [...]

ZZZZZZzZzZZzzzzzzzzZzzzzzZZZZZZ That’s about it from the interstate side of Nebraska. We did see this rather interesting monument (yikes sorry it’s huge onclick — forgot to resize): I could have paid attention to what it was…but I didn’t much care. *yawn* We even changed our hotel reservations from Omaha to Council Bluffs — only excitement of [...]

A double rainbow, in the Rockies near Durango. I refrained from having a freakout. For those of you who’ve done it, you know there’s nothing quite like driving through the Rocky Mountains. Instead of taking the interstate and backtracking, the Thriller got out the atlas and mapped out a more interesting route, winding through the [...]

If ever an attraction lived up to its hype, it’s the Grand Canyon. It’s so amazing, photographs cannot do it justice — but I’ll give it a shot. Before we get to that, though, there was another marvel — the Hoover Dam. While we didn’t stop and do the tour (which meant we were on [...]

Not much to report this day, as I didn’t post to you until later last night, thanks to Finkweb pitching a fit. After I posted, we went back down to the casino and yanked back some of our money. It was great fun. I learned from a lady in the elevator that not only does [...]