[NOTE: August 12, 2016] Um, okay I messed up. This is why I should blog while on the trip rather than a month later (I originally wrote this post August 12). We totally went to Lancaster, Pennsylvania before Pittsburgh. DUH! This post should have been made before the Pittsburgh post. I can’t fix that now, but… Continue reading 2016 Summer Road Trip – Pictures from the Road
Month: August 2016
Book Report – The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen My rating: 3 of 5 stars Similar to Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, which I read shortly before this novel, this is a story of an unhappy family – 2 boys, a daughter, a mother and an absent father. Although Alfred is not physically absent here; rather, he has been… Continue reading Book Report – The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2016 Summer Road Trip: Pittsburgh, PA
July 8-9, 2016 I’m a baseball fan in general and a Los Angeles Dodgers fan particularly. When I watch the Dodgers play in Pittsburgh I love the view of the city from the stadium; so, when we made plans to travel east this summer I was delighted when I saw the Pirates would be playing… Continue reading 2016 Summer Road Trip: Pittsburgh, PA
Book Report: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold My rating: 5 of 5 stars I wish that Amazon would let us give one book a year a sixth star to denote how special that book is; this is that book this year, this decade. This book is good, real good, Lonesome Dove good, Terms of Endearment good.… Continue reading Book Report: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
2016 Summer Road Trip: NYC Part 2
July 5, 2016 This day, July 5, was a bucket list day for Carla; we had the whole day booked for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Carla had our day planned for months. She is a great trip planner, working the details and plans ahead of time (as evidenced in her finding our… Continue reading 2016 Summer Road Trip: NYC Part 2
