Vacation

Our family vacation begins in one hour! We're driving to Detroit to visit my sister then to Chicago to visit Annie's relatives.

This afternoon we're doing a short stint over to Wausau, Wisconsin and staying in a hotel with a pool for the kids to play in. Then we catch the four hour ferry ride across Lake Michigan at noon tomorrow and drive down to the Detroit area to be with my sister until Friday. From there we drive to Chicago for the three day weekend with Annie's aunt, then a final night in Waukesha, WI to visit some of the places where Annie lived as a child. My posts will be a bit sporadic, but I'll try to throw up some pictures when I get the chance. (And keep an eye on my Twitter feed over on the right; I may text in some updates from my phone. If you care, that is. I know you do.)

Wandering

Kind of tying into yesterday's post, when I get antsy, I wander. Like over lunch today. Started off going for Chinese by the bookstore, changed my mind as I drove, decided to go to a different bookstore, got on the freeway, only to decide to go to a used bookstore and eat a hot dog. Listening to MPR and an interview with Barack Obama, I missed the exit, so decided I didn't want a hot dog but was going to eat healthy today.

Healthy, healthy, health. What's healthy? Forget healthy, maybe I'll go revisit my old neighborhood. Pizza. Too much traffic. Why's this lady riding my tail!? Burrito at the convenience store? Yuck. Didn't there used to be a Chinese restaurant over there? Noodles are healthy.

Grocery store. A sandwich, pasta from the deli and a diet root beer. Semi-healthy. And it only took me 12.7 miles to decide what to have for lunch.

My actual route - using Gmaps Pedometer.

Benchmark - 3 years

I have finally lived in the same house/ apartment/ farm/ dorm/ barracks/ cabin for longer than 3 years!

Maybe I really will settle down - eventually. My moves: (I consider it a move if I move somewhere and stay there for longer than a month without really knowing where I'm moving to next. I'm sure I'm missing one or two. My mom keeps track for me.)

1. "The Treehouse Apartment" - Columbia, South Carolina
2. Parsonage - Columbia, South Carolina
3. Mission Guest house - Santa Cruz, Bolivia
4. Spanish School Apartment - Cochabamba, Bolivia
5. (Cow Dung) House - San Javier, Bolivia
6. Guest house with Ayore Indians - Poza Verde, Bolivia
   
7. Temporary House waiting to go to US - Santa Cruz, Bolivia
8. "The Little White" House - Columbia, South Carolina
9. House with a pool - Santa Cruz, Bolivia
10. House by the botanical gardens - Santa Cruz, Bolivia
11. Grandparents house - St. Albans, West Virginia
12. Farmhouse - Racine, Wisconsin
13. Trailer Park - Warsaw, Indiana
14. House by the plaza - Santa Cruz, Bolivia
15. House with the garage - Lexington, KY
16. Aqua Motel for a few weeks - West Palm Beach, FL
17. "The Pines" townhouse - West Palm Beach, FL
18. The Hot House - Lake Worth, FL
19. College dorm room - Chicago, IL
20. House with the pool - West Palm Beach, FL
21. Army Barracks for Boot Camp - Ft. Benning, GA
22. Army Barracks - Ft. Riley, KS
23. Two months in the desert - Ft. Irwin, CA
24. REFORGER (Return of Forces to Germany) - All over Germany
    
25. Jungle Training - Panama
26. House with the pool - West Palm Beach, FL
27. College dorm room - Chicago, IL
28. Shack by the beach - Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
29. Parent's apartment - Denver, CO
30. Apartment while going to another college - Denver, CO
31. Apartment with Mr. K and the syrup - Minneapolis, MN
32. First apartment with Annie - Richfield, MN
33. Apartment on Sunny st. - Colorado Springs, CO
34. Tiny, tiny, tiny cabin on the hill - Manitou Springs, CO
35. Friends house - London, England
36. Spooky Chateau - Outside of Paris, France
37. Friends Apartment - Paris, France
38. Friends Apartment - Barcelona, Spain
39. School Dorm - Lisbon, Portugal
40. School Dorm - Athens, Greece
41. Guest house - Pristina, Kosovo
42. Farmhouse - St. Louis, France
43. Friends house - Weir, Germany
44. Apartment, Colorado Springs, CO
45. Living with my inlaws - Plymouth, MN
    
46. "Retirement Home" Apartment - St. Louis Park, MN
47. Across from the Locks Apartment - Seattle, WA
48. Living - again - with my inlaws - Plymouth, MN
49. "Wife beater" (not me) apartment - Minneapolis, MN
50. Current awesome apartment - Linden Hills, MN

Sometimes when I'm driving home from work, I forget where I live. No, really, I do.