Category Archives: Travel
Wordless Wednesday: Midnight Concourse
Wordless Wednesday: JMU Robot
Childhood Home
Someone in an online group recently asked us for memories of the house we grew up in. I lived in 10 different homes before I was 18, in various parts of the U.S., so I don’t have a single childhood home. While I liked some of them, I don’t feel a strong attachment to anyContinue reading “Childhood Home”
Day 13: Requa, California
We spent a month this summer on a 7,957-mile road trip across the country, from the Washington, D.C., area to California and back. Day 13 was July 15; we had arrived in Requa, at the mouth of the Klamath River, where we would visit Redwood National and State Parks, but first, we explored the areaContinue reading “Day 13: Requa, California”
About Last Week…
I’ve neglected this blog for more than a week because I was at my mother’s house. She was scheduled for a routine inpatient procedure on Tuesday morning of last week. I had to drive my son back to school on Sunday (he was home for the weekend) and then headed to my mother’s straight fromContinue reading “About Last Week…”
Wordless Wednesday: Sunset, Newport News
Colonel Anne of the Jacobites
I’ve posted often about my genealogical research, but only about my own family. I’ve also gotten interested in my husband’s family, though I haven’t done a lot of research yet. And tonight I learned of a remarkable woman who may have been an ancestor of his; she was born into his mother’s Scottish clan, theContinue reading “Colonel Anne of the Jacobites”
Throwback Thursday: Wild West
Today’s image from the past is one that I dug out of the box of old family photos my father and stepmother gave me when I visited them this summer. This was probably taken in or around 1947, as my father and his brother played cowboys near the back door of the house where theyContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: Wild West”
8,000 Miles
I’ve been posting photos recently from the month-long road trip we took around the U.S. this summer. Most of the posts begin with an introductory blurb that says we traveled more than 7,000 miles on our trip. As it turns out, it was actually almost 8,000 miles. My husband took a photograph of the odometerContinue reading “8,000 Miles”
The Petrini Page 