Duck, Duck, Goose.

Yesterday we were driving home, and we saw a flock of geese, flying really low, over our car. I had barely glimpsed them, and was staring - mouth open, when Bob shouted "Get the camera, get the camera!!!" The geese were so big, and so beautiful! I couldn't stop staring.

"I don't know where it is." I said.

Bob rolled down the window still shouting

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International Port-A-Potties

Their tagline is, "Keeping the Project Flowing." For real! Would the American equivalent be, "AmeriCrapper"?

This Christmas will be different...

In our previous/normal lives in Los Angeles, the holiday season starts today for our family. We put on the Christmas music, put up the decorations, and I start pestering Bob to go out and get a tree, which takes a week or two. [Bob's note: If you wanted the tree up on Thanksgiving you should have started pestering me two weeks before Thanksgiving.] Nothing Holiday-ish happens before today. No decorations, no music, no gingerbread... We joke about how all official merriment is forbidden until The Day -- that being the day after Thanksgiving. We stop each other from absentmindedly humming Jingle Bells, and blissfully glide past Christmas isles at the store; noses in the air. Christmas doesn't start until

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Thanksgiving Friday

I got an email from my sister yesterday, and she asked "Is it hard being in a place where they don't celebrate Thanksgiving?" The answere is both "Yes - very!!" and also "No, not at all." We miss our friends and family so very much, and that's difficult, but we are also so very thankful.

These months on the road have been many things: taxing, joyous, maddening, frightening, enlightening, eye-opening. Sometimes we think we're brave and intrepid, and sometimes we're convinced that we're complete idiots. Living in this uncertainty has made us so very aware of our blessings. I know it sounds corny. It doesn't feel corny.

Our plan for a Thanksgiving blog was for each family member to list the things we're thankful for, and we realized that it was almost absurd.  There's nothing that we're NOT thankful for right now. 

What Did Red Do In Germany?

We get behind with some of the posts of the wonderful people we've met and interesting things we've seen as we travel (and instead spend our time writing about oatmeal). Today is a tardy post about a friend we met in Nuremburg, Germany. His name is Joachim Torbahn. When we talked with Joachim about his work, he said, "I'm a

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