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Our long time family friends Tonie and Kurt asked me to dog/housesit for them while they went to visit their son, Nick, in India for three weeks.  It was perfect timing!  I was planning on making my way back to

On Tuesday morning I said goodbye to the Hillside House And we drove to Burlington, where we found Lake Champlain. There’s a lighthouse! It was beautiful, breezy and cold.  I had found a podcast about visiting Vermont and it had

After visiting Riverside, Annie guided us along the scenic route to see more family relics.  We drove under a covered bridge (a bucket list item for visiting Vermont), over hills and through fall colors, passing mansions and beautiful views. We

  Wendy’s memories of 1967 were much more vivid (at age 7) than my mom’s were (she was 17). They arrived late at night during a lightning storm.  They were planning on staying in the camper trailer they had brought

The sign to Vermont on the side of the highway came so unexpectedly that I wasn’t able to get a picture.  Luckily, they had one at the Welcome Center rest stop.  48 States down, 2 to go! My mom and

In the summer of 2001 my mom took my sister and I on a 64 day road trip across the country.  We wove our way around hitting the places we wanted to see and by the time we got home,

On Saturday we visited Harvard Square– the lady in the souvenir shop and our Lyft driver suggested it! It was a little dreary. Here we are with JFK. Wendy wasn’t that impressed with the courtyard, but we were impressed with

Early Thursday morning, my aunt Wendy flew from Sacramento to Seattle where she met up with mom.  They flew together to Boston Logan Airport.  Meanwhile, I hopped on a Peter Pan bus and met them at the airport.  My mom

My first weekend in New York my mom and my sister were in London.  They saw The Book of Mormon, Matilda and The Lion King.  I started to get jealous.  Then I realized I had seen all of those shows.

WARNING:  Seeing this show was a really big deal for me, and I had lots of thoughts.  I’m going to go into as much detail as I would like to have heard from anyone else who had seen the show.