FYI, the OYB Store will be closed for a week or two. If you order something, there will be a delay.
Because…
…We’re going away on the TRAIN!
For the past few years we’ve had an Amtrak credit card. All purchases gave points toward train tickets. We’ve cashed in a fair number already. But now we had enough points to get a free deluxe sleeper car (plus tickets, food, the works) from MI > Seattle and back on the Empire Builder! WOW!
So this will be our family’s first big train trip. It’s the kids’ Spring Break. We’ll be traveling across the Rockies with snow on them. …Across the whole country to the West!
Now, not to jinx us or anything but the word is that this train is about the journey not the destination. (What’s a 75% on-time rating mean? The Starlight Express which goes up and down the West Coast has a 90% rating.) Cross fingers for reasonable timeliness!
(I have DVDs from the library of Western/Rockies-themed movies to watch in the evenings. …Jeremiah Johnson, etc.)
Our friend in Seattle is putting us up in a condo by the Locks in Ballard, courtesy of friends. Amazing! Another of her friends is taking us sailing. And I arranged with a couple iBOBs in the neighborhood to borrow bikes (internet-BOB “sensible fun bike” elist).
