Face it: I Stink at Doing Route 66
LA/XC-4 DAY NINE: POSTING FROM TEMPE, ARIZONA
Today’s mileage: 387
Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 3,155
Road Music: Sirius cycle; Green Day’s American Idiot; Duke vs. Michigan State
Weather leaving Las Cruces, NM Saturday morning: 68 degrees, partly sunny, breezy, pleasant
Weather arriving Temp…
“Purty Dowg You’ve Got There”
LA/XC-4 DAY EIGHT: POSTING FROM LAS CRUCES, NM
Today’s mileage: 421
Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 2,765
Road Music: Sirius cycle; “Music of Nashville” playlist (5 CDs from the Nashville TV show)
Weather leaving Sonora, TX Thursday night: 77 degrees, mixed sun and clouds
Weather arriving Las Cru…
I Ain’t In Checotah Anymore
LA/XC-4 DAYS FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN: POSTING FROM SONORA, TX
Three-day mileage: 1,079
Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 2,344
Road Music: Sirius cycle; all my Carrie Underwood, in honor of passing through Checotah; all my Trish Murphy, in honor of my visit to Austin
Weather leaving Memphis, TN: 70 degr…
It’s All Good . . . Mostly
Every morning I eat something I’m not supposed to. Back in Waynesboro, VA, the desk clerk slipped a
piece of paper under the door. Beagle Man’s busy at his desk — so what am I supposed to do? I inhale it. He tells me the paper was directions to the dog park — and thanks a lot! The next day I…
Yay! I’m Warm! Finally!
LA/XC-4 DAYS THREE AND FOUR: POSTING FROM MEMPHIS, TN
Two-day mileage: 767 Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 1,265
Road Music: One-with-nature quiet time on the Blue Ridge Parkway; then March Madness Elite 8 action; Sirius cycle, and the rest of my “Runaway Country” playlist
Weather leaving Waynesbor…
Let the Mood Swings Begin!
LA/XC-4 DAY TWO: POSTING FROM WAYNESBORO, VA
Today’s mileage: 139
Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 498
Road Music: Shhh . . . quiet. One with nature today
Weather leaving Stephens City: a very cold, crisp 32, bright sunshine
Weather arriving Waynesboro: 30 degrees, still sunny
Today’s state tally…
Day One: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
LA/XC-4 DAY ONE: POSTING FROM STEPHENS CITY, VA
Today’s mileage: 359.3
Total LA/XC-4 mileage: 359.3
Road Music: ESPN New York; Sirius Radio: CNN, ESPN, The Highway — new country (going forward, these 3 stations, my on-the-road staples, will be known simply as the “Sirius Cycle” — just a li…
Multi-tasking Gone Wild
* * *COUNTDOWN: 8 DAYS TO LA/XC-4 * * *
You start recognizing the things on your to-do list that you really can’t afford to not get done when you’re up against a hard deadline. And I’m there — with a cross-country road trip that really needs to start early Friday morning, March 27. My internal t…
The Perfect Puppy???
* * * COUNTDOWN: 18 DAYS TO LA/XC-4 * * *
Beagle Man has been pushing the narrative of Kemba as this wonderful, happy-go-lucky, up-for-anything super-puppy — maybe not perfectly behaved, but at least understanding the word “no.” Hey, that’s cool, if that’s the story he likes to tell. I just wa…
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