So... Right before we went to bed, Chase headed down with his headlamp to get a look at the waterfall, because the place that he had found for us to stay at had a waterfall, and we both absolutely love waterfalls. In the dark, though, the waterfall really wasn't much to look at, and he … Continue reading 2022-11-21 — BTP, Part 2

We woke up that morning to a construction truck parked in front of Sophie and a whole crap ton of construction cones lining the roads to the point where we had bed down for the night. 😬 Gratefully, there was a way for us to still get out of where we had stopped for the … Continue reading 2022-11-20 — Cocaine

Oh! One thing I forgot to write about the night before was that on our way to rainbow Falls and on our way back from rainbow Falls, we got stopped by the police to do random breathalyzer testing. Chase was driving, so he got the honor of counting to 10 into the breathalyzer each way, … Continue reading 2022-11-19 — Glow In the Dark

I woke up relatively early again yesterday morning. With the sunlight illuminating the landscape, I was able to see that we had driven far enough north that there weren't as many trees, though the landscape was still a beautiful bright green. I took my morning pill and spent a good little while writing that first … Continue reading 2022-11-18 — Penguin… 😕

I woke up somewhere between 6 and 6:30 on day 3 of the trip, day 2 in New Zealand. I think there were some gentle sprinkles of rain relatively quietly crashing to earth--in contrast to the thunderous falls that echoed in the hidden canyon below. It was in that morning that I realized that we … Continue reading 2022-11-17 — Kiwi Friends, Day 3

Guess getting out of the habit of writing every day has its drawbacks when it comes time for keeping up with what's going on while on vacation. 😬 So much has happened that I might not remember everything, but I will give it a whirl! 😬 Let's see... The plane ride from Los Angeles to … Continue reading 2022-11-16 — Day 2, Better Than Planned

Well, my lovelies, we're off! 🛫 I'm writing this entry sitting in my row-13 window seat at 30-whatever thousand feet somewhere over Arizona or California, I'd guess. My seat was actually 22c, an aisle seat, but little Stephen did another experiment with airport security 😎 and... well... Let's just say I've now gotten on two … Continue reading 2022-11-15 — Takeoff

Happy 11/11. Haven't written for a while. I started an entry day before yesterday. I worked on it again yesterday, but obviously, I never finished it, so I'm just gonna basically start over. I'm not doing well, so maybe it's good I haven't written. I've been the closest to a full nervous breakdown that I … Continue reading 2022-11-11 — Bad Tylenol

I'm... on the edge of full meltdown. I tried so hard to just take a breath and tell myself, each time yet another thing came up, that it was all gonna be ok. I was successful a decent number of times, but I... I'm losing it. I'm in a near-constant state of significant stress and … Continue reading 2022-11-07 — Not With It

Hola, folks! Happy weekend to all of you. 😊 It's been an interesting day today. Things have been so crazy that I'm just sort of pinballing from to-do-list item to to-do-list item, but I'm so scatterbrained with everything I need to do that it's like my neurons are randomly firing all over but very little … Continue reading 2022-11-04 — Maiden Voyage of the Spider