Woke up early on Saturday and had a morning from hell. I had this sudden thought that I hadn’t renewed a domain name and I was right: it had expired. So I tried to log in at the registrar and because the firewall is still reacting like an allergy to secure sites, I gave up [...]

I then caught a cab up to the wedding chapel where my friends got married. I’ve known Mark for ten years online and this was our first irl meeting! His wife, Jayne, is lovely. The wedding was a complete and utter hoot–everything from the 2001 theme entry in the pink cadillac to the hokey Elvis-flavoured [...]

I had a nice morning catching up on this and that, then met up with my friend and immediately hit it off with her very well indeed. We both squee’d when we found Boots products in some drug store up the strip. ;) It was well over 100 degrees and I needed to keep diving [...]

So I continued, feeling severely ripped off by “Lake Mead Highway”, which is MILES from the lake. So, no cooling effect. At Echo Bay there is a snarf, so I went there and got my token shot of the water and guzzled down some Gatorade from a machine there. Then I got to Henderson for [...]

I said that ten miles down the road would have been a nicer place to stay. Here’s why: the little oasis, put together by the Mormon farmers before the state boundaries were changed and they had to move on. Under Lake Mead near here are a bunch of ruins from an advanced ancient society. All [...]

On the way up I’d seen something for “Miller Point” and took a break there. It was quite a surprise. In Rachel, I’d been recommended to see Cathedral Gorge, and Miller Point was an access point for a fabulous landscape of salmon-coloured formations like stalagmites and strips of geological candy-rock. I spent a happy hour [...]

While I was in Nevada I came across a labyrinth finder web site: http://wwll.veriditas.labyrinthsociety.org/ It’s what led me to the wolves in Rancho San Rafael. Anyway, I discovered that Sunnyvale, when they built their new downtown plaza, had installed a labyrinth. I had no idea. So, Don and I were down at the post office [...]

What an enjoyable read! I liked the writing style, the feeling the author was addressing the reader directly. I was disappointed for the author when she had to discontinue her planned journey, and I wondered where she was going to go from there since there was a whole lot of book left to read. It [...]

Including the wedding and Napa adventure on my return home in the middle, the road trip was 5,405.1 miles in a little under one month. Including the Reno prequel at the start of June, it was 5,946.1 miles.