Abe birth place


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There is a national park with a monument to the log cabin that Abe Lincoln was born in. Inside the building you see here is a log cabin. The laptop I was borrowing died so it will be a while before U get more pictures up.

Mingo Falls


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Today driving through the Smokey Mountain National Park. It looks a lot like home except for the humidity and that it is kudzu climbing the trees and not ivy.

Bridge over the bay


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It is 90 in San Francisco. Here doing the tourist thing.

Out of Oregon


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Made it into California. We made a dash out of the local area and, at the moment, we are looking to be in Lake Tahoe tomorrow. The road has been clear and the temperature about 65.

Getting ready for the road


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I’m packing and getting ready for a road trip. After working for many years at one place, my work gives a sabbatical to spend refreshing and preparing for another many years of working. Over the next few weeks, I am packing my family and possessions into a van and driving around America. I will be using my phone to post daily notes from the road as well Twittering in the sidebar.

We did a similar trip 15 years ago. I found, on an old backup, the web pages I created to record that trip. Check out the original Trip Around America. That’s from 1995 so appreciate the hand wrought HTML. Hey, back then the drop shadow on the GIF of America at the top of the page was Hot Stuff.

Like I said, I will be posting more as we travel. We’ll see how far we get this time — now the boys are grown and they will have opinions on where we go and what we do.

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Do you know there are stores that sell blocks of custom soap? Amazing. You can tell the store is close because of the soap perfume coming out the door.

Spring flowers


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With our cool and wet spring, everything is blooming and growing. The lawn is asking for more than one mow a week. It is not all good, It is beautiful though.

Sunday music

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The weekly podcast is being broadcast from the 9 Muses. Actually, it is broadcast from the web. The real time listeners are in Second Life.

Summer on the street

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Summer on 21st. It is a gray warm day in Portland. People are out enjoying the day. Also a test of a picture from the phone.

Over the next month or so I will be traveling around the US. You know, getting in the car and spending ungodly amounts of money to power the car filled with kids and luggage in order to take in the grandness that is America. I will be posting daily entries here from my little mobile phone. Picture and commentary typed into a little 10 key pad. I haven’t upgraded to one of those fancy key board phones so appreciate all of the pecking that goes into adding text to the pictures.

You will see some test postings over the next week as I get the mobile blogging through Flickr working. Then it’s on the road.