on the road

pass or play

It’s that time of the decade again – time to renew our passports. And, as often happens with B. and me, the occasion resembled more a Marx Brothers movie than smooth sailing. Honk, honk. The online renewal option should have made it a breeze. (Previous passport-getting adventures had involved long lines at the post office, […]

nonsense of direction

You know how the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz isn’t great on giving directions? “That way is a very nice way,” he says, pointing in one direction, but “it’s pleasant down that way too,” he adds, pointing the opposite way. Yup, that’s kind of me. Which is why, on B.’s and my road trips, […]