by toby | Jun 7, 2013 | Life
Cityshock and re-entry June 7, 2013 We undertook our most harrowing adventure of all the day before we came back to Maui—driving through downtown San Francisco, during rush hour, to go to the Star Trek movie. Our urban assault Jeep was put through its paces as Mike...
by toby | Jun 1, 2013 | Life
Nuggets of insight from the road trip May 31, 2013 I had a memory of Carson City that kept us driving past the point of comfort from Great Basin in Utah. In this memory, I was seven months pregnant with Caleb and we spent a romantic weekend in a great big Victorian B...
by toby | May 31, 2013 | Life
Wednesday May 31, 2013 The Loneliest Road and surprises I’m sitting on my folding armchair by a crispy-hot fire with my laptop open on my knees, the smell of cypress and pine all round and the sound of a rushing stream in the background, now that the birds have gone...
by toby | May 29, 2013 | Life, The Writing Life
Off the deck and into the wild: when the desert storms. Tuesday 5/28/13 When the desert storms Morning dawned gloriously but settled into overcast as Mike and I took off from Moab to find Canyonlands. We’d been under the impression both parks were close, but only...
by toby | May 28, 2013 | Life
On Walmart and Arches National Park May 27, 2013 On the road to Moab Writing while driving, the laptop open on my lap and bouncing with the rough freeway leading out of Colorado into Utah. We’re doing 75 mph, the speed limit, and the Jeep starts to levitate when it...