2021 California family visit
August means getting out of Georgia’s heat and humidity and visiting our son Matt and his family in northern California’s Lake Tahoe area. While we didn’t have humidity in Truckee,...
2020 in-between times – part 2: quick trip to see Mountain Martins
During a December phone call with son Matt in California, he told us that his oldest, Montana, was playing JV basketball at her high school in Truckee (California). During high...
2019 other side – part 33, Truckee: history, family, transitions, sights, and friends
Truckee is just up the hill from Lake Tahoe’s north shore. During the winter, it often has some of the lowest temperatures in the continental United States. Historically it’s a...
2018 returning the motor home – part 1: traveling west again
We’re off on a blitz across the U.S. to return Matt’s family’s motor home to them in California. They left it with us in Georgia after the family’s Thanksgiving visit...
2018 returning the motor home – part 2: time in Las Vegas
This soccer tournament for Montana is a bigger deal than we thought: around 400 teams of middle and high school girls come from as far away as Maine and Hawaii....