Cincinnati with (surprise) Family

David played the Findlay Market Saturday morning which was simultaneously hopping and crawling with Cincinnatians: When who should approach me but family I didn’t even realize we had!  Buffy’s brother is married to David’s Aunt Holly and way back when I was new in this family, and Ada was new in...

Cincinnati with Family

The beautiful home that Jeff and Reda have made in Alexandria Kentucky is an oasis of peace, lovliness, and blooming flowers, conveniently located real darn close to our destination of Cincinnati Ohio. After a series of Walmart hotels over the prior week, then a couple of hours driving through the serene...

West Virginia – Grand View

We had the best time with Robby over several days.  The West Virginia woods were beautiful and astonishing, the company was jovial, the skies clear and the sun bright.  The girls were loving it, Cassidy was still too little to tell us what he thought about it, and the caves were...

Boston Public Gardens

Today we parked on Beacon Hill, crossed Charles Avenue, and waddled right on into the Public Garden, where Ada and Annabelle met Mrs Mallard and her eight well brought up ducklings: Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Oack, Pack, and Quack! The Public Gardens were enormously lovely and we had the nicest...

Berry Picking in New York

Between Buffalo and Schenectady, the lovely couple who own Abbot Farms let us spend the night on their beautiful farm, complete with farm animals, apple and cherry orchards, and U-Pick raspberries and blueberries!  After a french toast breakfast made with today’s eggs, provided by the chickens we fed last night, we...

Peaceful Interlude

After a whirlwind of travel and transition, our first peaceful day hit us a couple of weeks ago in Ohio and reminded us to slow down once and a while: We woke up in the parking lot of an AAMCO in a tiny town, got our transmission looked over, then drove...

West Virginia with Robby

We reached the beautiful mountain state and, more pertinently, our beautiful friend Robby.  Yay! Robby is smiles and sunshine that claim to have moods, he talks with his hands, and his hands speak in mixed media.  His house looks like the Metropolitan and an antique store had babies, and then those...

West Virginia – Fayetteville

We took Robby with us to Fayetteville to see my friend Darlene and check out her store, Swirl.  “It’s like you’re a grown up,” I told Darlene.  “You won’t say that when you see it,” she answered.  Swirl is a vivid, tiny, swirly, colorful, place like a room in Willy Wonka’s...

One Week Deep

Last time I posted we were one week out, and now we’re one week in.  No blogs because that last week was SO CRAZY BUSY and this past week, well, we haven’t quite worked out traveling fulltime, parenting fulltime, being a fulltime touring musician and baby wrap retailer AND getting onto...