On the Road

We left San Diego just after 4:00 (about three hours later than planned). The Californian mountains looked like enormous piles of boulders as we drove east for six hours, most of the way parallel with the Mexican border. To pass the time as we drive, Paul is reading aloud the classic American road trip novel, On […]

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The Emerald City

After we got back from Mexico, we headed to a place that felt like its polar opposite. The Hotel del Coronado is ridiculously opulent and has become part of American History for three really cool reasons [putting my trivia hat on]: Not only did L. Frank Baum say it was his inspiration for The Emerald […]

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