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Category Archives: Travel

What Does 4500 Miles in a Car Look Like?

August 25, 2010 – 2:32 pm

Like the car has never been detailed. Enough bug carnage on the front bumper to make an entomologist jealous. And by the exhausted smiles on the faces of four happy Boyles, like they’d just had the trip of their lives. For three weeks, we camped, hiked, swam and explored our way across seven states. Just [...]

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What to Pack

July 5, 2010 – 4:09 pm

I have a friend who when she goes away, has her suitcase packed a good two weeks ahead of time. That has always seemed a little too much fore-planning for me, but at the same time I admire her certainty. She knows exactly what she needs and what she is wearing and in it goes. [...]

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Three Reasons to Love Portland

June 30, 2010 – 7:34 am

After a week in Portland and my second visit down there this year, can I just say, I love Portland? I’ve gone back and forth for years on my own, for booksignings, PLA, reader’s conferences and the wonderful luncheon the Rose City Romance chapter puts on each spring. This time I took the family. And [...]

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Taken Unawares

June 28, 2010 – 3:57 am

Every week I take my son Matthew to speech therapy and when we come home we drive through this neighborhood that runs alongside the freeway and take this little off-ramp out of nowhere up onto I-5. All spring, as I’ve driven up this ramp, I’ve watched a plant growing atop one of the pylons that [...]

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Maya Rodale Drops By

June 22, 2010 – 4:58 am

My friend, Maya Rodale, drops by to talk about: Life in London There’s nothing like living in a place to really know it intimately, and thus to write about it authentically. Since actually visiting Regency London is out of the question, the next best thing is living in London. I was lucky to get to [...]