Franklinsanity
A crank's musings on family, drink, travel, food & life
Category: D-Day+2
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8 pm – En route to the Rock, as I have decided to call it. After the real Rock, of course. Enjoyed a good local IPA and grilled walleye. Q had butter noodles. HHW? Some sort of pseudo creole stew. Ted of course had a burger. Dinner was enlivened by American Ninja on the big…
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5:11 pm – somewhere West of Little Rock: good day in the car today. Very American. Starbucks for breakfast. Chick-fil-et and subs for lunch. Gas station snacks. Lots of Bible Belt roadside attractions: crosses, Ten Commandments, Native American casinos. And full entry back into humidity: opening the car door feels like stepping out into a…
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8:26 PM, Amarillo, TX: left NM, the land of enchantment, for Texas – which urged us to “drive friendly.” That was a lesson we’ve all taken to heart today, as some tensions – whether due to battery life, logistics/directions, lack of Hogwarts time, earphone use or dog misbehavior – surfaced. By the time we rolled…
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6:19 am, Santa Fe, NM. The sun’s been up for awhile. Fortunately, there are a lot of blinds in the room. The kids, and dogs, have been rising too early and not napping. Meaning they melt down too early too. Hopefully they’ll sleep in a bit, in our adobe-style suite (which is rustic, but huge…
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Some of you have inquired about the title “Hard Hittin’ Wife.”. Most especially, Hard Hittin Wife. Although she knows perfectly well, it’s a fair point that others don’t. She hails originally from New Britain, CT – otherwise known as “Hard Hittin’ New Britain.” There are quite a few proposed derivations on the Web. HHW’s preferred…
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4:45 pm, Gallup, NM – so we’ve covered a lot today, but the blog has fallen behind! So let’s catch up: We stayed in Flagstaff last night. GREAT town; we’ll have to come back and spend more time there. Diablo Burger was as good as advertised, and, man, was the IPA welcome. Over a hundred…
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Heck of a 24 hours. Surprisingly little time to post; I’m sure our vast readership has been disappointed. Therefore, let me catch everyone up, relatively efficiently: Saturday was a rainy day in Truckee – but the five kids and I still got in about 2 hours of pinecone-tennis-scooter-frisbee, or something. It was awesome, though some…
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