Wow, I am fried.  I have spent nearly everyday until today just working like crazy.  That is what happens one you miss a few days and then have payroll…….icks.  Today I totally hit a brick wall.  Did really do any work until this evening.  Luckily there wasn’t much to do, but it slowed me down on what I wanted to get done for us.  I’ll try and get to my emails and messages tomorrow.

Torn already posted about our trip to Vegas.  I’m totally burnt out on conventions, but love seeing all of our friends, especially our family from Buffalo.  We had a good time even with all the crappy cigarette smoke everywhere…disgusting…lost my voice to it and had problems with my sinuses until Tues due to it.  I have to put my bitch in about it, because that really brings me down physically and makes me sick.

I am very proud that I was able to maintain my weight while there.  Our choices of food was either junk or fancy as hell, which doesn’t work well with us.  We drank a BUNCH of water, so with the heat messing up our appetites and food selection that helped.  But I really did try and watch what I ate, had a few treats even though my food journal went totally out the window….no way to keep up or even estimate.

I was totally stressed about my Monday training session, it has been a week and I worry about whether or not I can do it or even keep up. But I did good.  And Tues I was able to maintain what I did last time on the treadmill, which I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to do.  I did do good.  And my trainer really worked me today, even had me doing laps around the basketball court dribbling the ball and taking a shot.  I will say it is a hell lot easier to run after a ball, because you are focusing on the ball and not the pain……lol…I still wanted to die afterwards…….grin

We are currently trying to find another place, we have less the 2 weeks because we have to let our landlord know if we are staying since our lease is up Sept 1.  Yeah, got the letter 4 days before we left for Vegas, so we are stressing out on finding a place.  This place is ok, but we want more and this year just seemed to have flown by…..

There is a lot of news articles and things happening in politics that I want to post on, but it is late and my brain is not up to it.  =)  I hope to have more time and brain power tomorrow.

We are currently on our flight back home. It has been an active visit.

But lets start at the beginning….Wed was spent fighting with the dang scanner part of our printer. There must have been a stupid Microsoft update because my laptop is no longer communicating with it, BUT yet I have no issue with the printer and copier part of it. I am so pissed off by it.

I discovered a few days prior when I was trying to scan our passports just so our family has them on record in case something happens to us when we visit other countries….who knows what would happen when we visit Canada…….LOL….crazy canucks…..grin It is just recommended that your family members have it for emergencies. Well, it wouldn’t be that big of deal…I would just figure it out when we got home…BUT then I needed to scan something for business and it was time sensitive….ggrrr On the day that I need to be tieing up loose ends and finish packing….that really pissed me off.

I ended up heading down to Kinko’s just to get the paperwork scanned…I hate dealing with pc setups that aren’t mine. I feel like an idiot, but I got it done and emailed off.

We actually slept Wed night, which is surprising. We really get to sleep the night before a trip because our brains won’t stop and then we are getting up early….like 03:30…icks. But we did do much better than normal, if we just had about 2 more hours it would’ve been perfect. And we got out on time….

This was our 1st time leaving PDX without being dropped off. We ended up finding parking ok, even with all the construction and had plenty of time to spare. When Torn booked the flight instead of ending in Minneapolis, we took another 26min flight on to Duluth and saved 3 hrs of driving….not a bad trade off…even with the quick walk from one end of the airport to the other. We liked using the small airports like Duluth, they may not have much, but there is so much less hassle.

Then we had about 2 more hours of driving and got there in decent time. Dropped everything off at the hotel, refreshed and went off to visit.

Torn’s mom made stuffed shells, which I love and had been thinking about….lol…so that was excellent. Boy, the river is majorly up…….I’ve only been up there a few times, but even I can see how high. And driving around their area we saw more deer then we ever have in all the trips we have taken together up there…..took to counting them…..within the 17 miles from their place to our hotel…one night over 60, then 37…but it went down as time went depending on weather.

When we checked the weather before we left, we saw that it was suppose to be overcast and rainy the whole time. But we got a really nice day Friday. Ironically, that was the day we went on a mine tour that went half mile underground………lol Got to see bats and see how we would never survive as miners…icks….that was horrible work.

Saturday was the rainy overcast…..ironically, it was the day we went to International Falls..so since we were outside, it was rainy…when we were in the mine it was shiny….LOL…only to us. But I got my national park passport stamped. =) Later that night as we were sitting and chatting it started to snow and then started to come down hard….must have gotten 2 inches, on May 10th!!! Crazy….wasn’t even fully melted when we got up the next morning.

The winter has lasted much longer than usual. The trees were barely getting buds on them….so MN wasn’t as green as it normally is at this time of year. And we also noticed something we never did, the woods there look “young”. I know that there is logging in Oregon and not too far from Portland, but where we live within the housing area and the surrounding parks you can tell the trees have been there for many years, may not be ancient but not new. While MN, especially where we were, has been logged so many times that the trees never get the true growth. You can even see the differences in the old pictures of the logs….they are so much thicker from years ago. Kind of sad.

Sunday we went to see the falls. We’ve seen them every time we visit, but never get tired of them. It is so cool to see the power of mother nature in the river. It is something else. When we got back from there Torn’s dad took up to one of the big hills near their property. It had been logged a couple of years ago but it was growing good. We got caught up in the under bush and found dear trails everywhere…..lol But the view from the top of the hill was worth it. It was great.

We got back to the hotel earlier then we the last few nights. We still had to get things packed up or I would be stressing it….lol Plus, I had to call mom for Mother’s Day….we can’t get a signal from Torn’s parents place….but she did get my card in time. =)

It was a good visit, playing catch up, Torn showing things on his folks pc to them. His dad got a newer model of the olympus that I have. It is really nice and he gets some pretty good pictures.

Can’t wait to get home because I had more work then I even want to think about…icks…I’m already stressing that and the gym. I have got to work my ass off on the treadmill tomorrow. We did some good hikes, but not enough to make up for my diet being blown…..grrr That is ok, I’ll get it back tomorrow, but I’m afraid of how bad I’m going to be when I have my session with my trainer Wednesday. =( Wish me luck, I’m going to need it.

We still have about 2hours left on our flight, I think I’m going to look over some the pictures that I took but haven’t checked out. Then maybe a power nap, if I can get comfortable.

**Now home playing catch up…. I really hope I have time for a post tomorrow.

Current Mood: Exhausted

I’m here on the flight to Seattle.  Very pleased to be heading there then LA.  =)  Been dozing on and off during the flights.  I’m hoping that I’ve done enough dozing that I don’t feel totally drained when I get home.   I would like to be able to visit with my husband and cats and maybe get some work done.  Putting away my clothes will have to wait until Monday.  I have way too much to do.

My flight from Seattle to Portland will take more time to board and deboard then the flight…..lol  It is suppose to be only about 50 minutes.  It is on a different airline, a small one, part of Alaska Airlines called Hudson Air…..I faintly remember the name, luckily I have about 90 minutes just in case the gate is a long distance.

My lips have been having issues with staying moist since the beginning of Dec. and flying makes it worst.  I have no idea why, been having to use lots of blist stick.  I may have to find something different. …strange

Last night I had to do another errand.  Which kind of annoyed me since I didn’t want to have to do that on my last day.  But it couldn’t be avoided.  So I took the kids and was able to spend some quality aunt time with them.  Since they didn’t have school the next day they were able to stay up a little later for that.  Otherwise my time has been with helping them with their homework.

On the way back from the errand we drove through a local park to see the xmas lights.  They really enjoyed that, so that was neat.

Dad was able to get one of the other pcs online by hardware yesterday and got ton updates from windows installed.  So that was cool.  The computers are older and would need to have wireless cards put in to use the network.  With all the games and things the kids on them, I told him I think it would be more of an issue then it is worth unless he reformatted them and started over.  So dad is going to hardwire them, when they finally get new computers they will have the wireless in them and wouldn’t have the issue with jumping on the network I got started.  So that is cool.

It was nice to visit with my family.  Mom was in her baking moods, got to have fresh apple pie, banana bread, regular bread, she also made some of her potato & egg salad, even gave me some before adding the onion……..mmmm  It was great. I got to have Chinese last night.  I don’t get the opportunity to have that very often, but other than the kids, my family loves it.  =)

Like I said in my last post, I got all of my family xmas presents done and even got most of Torn’s.  Just have 2 more things that I want to get, so I need to order them online.  I’m very pleased by that.  =)

**I’m currently in Seattle.  I didn’t realize until we started to arrive that I was hungry.  Thankfully NWA actually gave me a $10 certificate to use for food in the airports, so I’m putting it to use………..grin

It feels good to be back in the same timezone as Torn and so close to finish line.

It is hard to believe that xmas is right around the corner………icks  I only have about 11-12 days to enjoy my tree.

I’ll get this posted when I get the chance.

Current Mood: Accomplished

I’m so glad thatjen posted this. I’ve been wanting to do this since we got done with our trip……I’m almost there. =)

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Current Mood: Working

The next day (8/31) was another day that we got going early then planned, because the drive to the next campground, took about 2hrs longer then we thought.  That was for the Sequoia National Park.  We didn’t realize that we would be climbing mountains.  We are currently at 7,320ft elevation.

I love the mountains, the cliffs, the scenery, but doing it in a class A RV that takes up a lane fully, is scary as hell to me.  I couldn’t look down. I just keep looking straight ahead. Pass other big trucks…….icks. If we were doing it in a car, it would’ve been less heart stopping, let me tell you.  I don’t know how Torn did it, but he doing better then I am.

We are currently chilling out, enjoying the fire. It may get hot during the day, but it does get chilly at night.  Which I’m enjoying.  =)  There are lots of warnings about bears and food.  Hopefully the picture I took of the food storage comes out so you can see it.  But we have yet to see a black bear.

Well, my pc battery is about to die and we only have 45min left a being allowed to run the generator.  So I’ll try to write more tomorrow.

*** Sunday 2nd September @ 08:35

We are out of the Sequoia National Park, it took over an hour to get out due to the curves and cliffs. It can be quiet dangerous if you aren’t careful.  It is a pretty morning.  Reggie even came out and laid on my lap for a while.  He is not normally a lap cat for me, it is usually with Torn.

I’ve been enjoying myself, but there have been some frustrations.  A lot of things that we had arranged fell threw. =(  So that is the business area of annoyance.  But the biggest frustration, personally, has been my feet.  Torn is like it is ok and it will take time.  But after walking around Vegas, my feet were so swollen and hurt so bad.  At the Sequoia park we had to shuttle straight to the General Sherman Sequoia instead of doing a half mile trail……..which is the thing that I love.  I know it is not my fault, but I feel horrible that I’m not able to help out as fully as I use to……..like getting fire wood….ggrrrr  I hope I’m better in the next month, because I don’t want to be sitting on my ass all the time due to my feet.

***I already posted a ton of pictures from Sequoia…….lol  I thought I would give you a break.

Current Mood: Working

Wednesday (8/29) we left early then planned for Malibu, which was a good thing. Because that took much longer then we thought. We went through some more winding, cliff dropping roads. I swear, my heart has gotten a hell of a work out this last 2 weeks…icks. Those roads were just out of Vegas, not to mention of the Malibu Mountains we had to go over to get to the beach RV park we had booked.

We got a great view of the beach and ocean there. We got cliff side. There we had better connection, so I was able to get the cams going again.

Torn had booked us a red mustang convertible for those 2 nights…..it was a great thing. Because later that night, once most of the traffic died down we went cruising down CA 1, with the top down…..stopping at a beach to get some sunset pictures. We hadn’t driven a sports car in so long……

For part of the cruise, Torn had his hand down my pants, playing with my pussy, the wind going through our hair. It got me so turned on, that I put the seat back as far it would go and with it being dark out, no one could really see me that I pulled my tits out to torture him. I even sucked on him a little bit while he was driving………..grin Very, very hot…..with all the noise of the vehicles and the wind, I was able to cum as loud as I wanted….grin

The next day, we took the car out to some of the hills to get some topless and pussy shots. That was fun, but damn it was hot……nearly everyday on this trip has been hot as hell…..and by the time we hit Malibu we were expecting 70s/80s…..not 100s.

One of good friends Wankus came over. He used to do internet porn radio and started about the same time as we did. Right now he is working on a mainstream show and doing some things for xpeeps.com So he did an interview of me for xpeeps.com That was fun.

Afterwards we went out The Chart, a mainly seafood place that had some steak and chicken. We had a excellent meal there. Unfortunately, it was time to say good by to Wankus. =(

Torn and I chilled out and let dinner settle and then we took the mustang for one last cruise. The evenings really chilled out, so we left the top up for this one. Stopped on one of the turn off that they have to sit on a rock and look at the stars. You don’t get to see all the stars very often due to light pollution, but this night we did. It was great.

Here are some of the pictures : http://tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/malibublog/index.htm 

Current Mood: Chilling

***Warning even more pics then I’ve previously posted. Sorry for your friends’ pages in LJ…..icks
But we thoroughly enjoyed Zion and then it was on to Vegas. We stayed at the KOA campground right behind Circus, Circus. It was actually a lot nicer then expected, but no grass…..that is about right for Vegas.

1st night in Vegas I went to get my nails done at a place that DocHolly suggested…so there is a picture of my toes….lol

And then we went to this Italian restaurant in a shopping center, called Hole In The Wall…….I believe. Great food……all the house wine you can drink, I was feeling very nice….lol I just wish the salad and bread wasn’t so good…..I would’ve ate more of my chicken parm that was great. It was another great suggestion by DocHolly.

The next day, we had lunch with DocHolly at the Peppermill…….dang, those portions were huge. We ordered dessert…..Torn, a strawberry shortcake and me a hot fudge brownie sundae….neither of which we would’ve been able to finish on an empty stomach much less just eaten. It was good.

That night, Torn and I meet thatjen and her boyfriend for drinks. It was a very nice visit and we would love to be able to do it again and longer. I thought we had a picture, but I couldn’t find it.  They were so nice and dropped us off in front of the Bellagio afterwards.

During all our trips to Vegas we had never seen the light/water show. When we 1st got there in was in the middle of “1st Kiss?” by Faith Hill?…..that wasn’t very good. When you come to see the light/water show pop music, especially that one, does not fit. But they do shows every 15 minutes and the next one was a duet Italian opera…..it was great! That was so fitting. We can’t come to Vegas again without seeing that.

Then we decided to do the tourist, another 1st for us. We are usually here on business so we barely get out of the hotel & convention centers to see the sights. So we tried to walk a very small part of the strip. I will say, I now know what Toni Braxton has been………lol…..I use to love her stuff and seen her open for Kenny G years ago.

We then headed over to old Vegas, since I barely had any life left in my feet….ggrrr, and wanted to see the light show there. It is called Freemont Street, I believe. It had some of the old gaudy signs from the 60s/70s. So that was cool. The only thing I didn’t care for is that the light show was only at the top of the hour……….so we had to wait like 40 min. I expected at least every 30min., but it was a cool show to see.

Later that night we realized that we never had supper………but we were so full from lunch that it didn’t make much of dent on us. =)

The last day, we had lunch the guys of TheBestPorn.com Another great meal with great people.

Later that evening DocHolly took us to a great Mexican place. Other then Portland last fall, we haven’t had good, much less great Mexican food since Indiana……I know, so sad. But dang it was excellent. Another too much food and barely ate it all….I even had 2 pina colas, I usually only have 1.

Then DocHolly took us out to some strip clubs. Unfortunately their busy season doesn’t hit for a couple more weeks and with it being Tuesday, they were slow. But one we went to had really great people working there with excellent service and a girl that had great personality and was fun to talk to. But I’m saving all my other write up on that another time. =)

For the end of Tuesday night, we just had a really fun time and it was thanks to DocHolly. Thanks hon!

I was very surprise that I couldn’t keep rude cams going while in Vegas….you would think with being a city it wouldn’t have been so bad…..but it didn’t work out that way.  =(

***I put the pictures I wanted to post here in a gallery, there was just way too many of them.

http://tornrose.com/Odds_n_Ends/vegasblog/index.htm

Current Mood: Working & Beautiful Day

**Alright, I’ve tried posting this 3 other times last night, I would forget something and go back and edit it……….well it would fuck up my sidebars on my blog. =(

I also tried putting it behind a LJ cut, but since it cross posting from my wordpress blog it won’t work and it again screwed up my blog……..gggrrrr Very, very frustrating.

So I’m sorry,if I’ve messed up anyone’s friends pages in LJ as I posted and deleted all last night.

So here goes the 4th try………

*** Saturday 1st Sept 16:23

We had to leave camp to get to the shuttle that took us to the General Sherman Sequoia tree.  It is the 1st year for the shuttle here so a lot of cars were still driving to the viewing.  Even though we HATE depending on others for rides and getting around, I believe that they should limit the amount of cars to get into those parts and require shuttles.  Way too much pollution and wear on the roads….anyhow enough of that soap box.

More of our campsite.

It was really cool to see the most massive tree in the world.  We tried to take pictures, but you really don’t get a sense of the size until you are there.  The General Sherman is estimated to be 2,200 yrs old!  If you never seen it, you have got to come here.

I even got recognized!  That totally threw me for a loop.  I’m use to denying it since it usually in the area that I work my main stream job.  So I confirmed it, but I could’ve been less awkward about it.  =(  I looked to see if he had a camera with him, to ask if he wanted a picture but I didn’t think to ask if he wanted a picture with me with our camera and have him email me for it……….doh!  Not my best moment, but I’ll get better.  So Joe, if you are reading this, sorry about not thinking and thanks for saying hi.  =)

Just some pictures of the scenery as we were driving and making stops.

After the Grand Canyon we stayed at Lake Powell.  When Torn booked this, it was Lake Powell RV & Marina……..we had no clue that it was a National Park and a stunning one at that.  If we would’ve known we would’ve booked 2 nights.  We had a beautiful view of the man made lake with the huge colorful cliffs around it, beautiful clear sky with the moon….another place to come back to……….the list keeps getting bigger……………grin

Then the next day it was on to Zion National Park.  Wow, wow, & wow…..the colors, the cliffs……damn.  It was great!  You have to drive on some long and winding roads, with huge cliff drops.  There is a tunnel through the cliffs that was made in 1929, so RVs can’t fit with incoming traffic.  The tunnel is about 1 mile long and they stop traffic coming from the other end, so you can drive down the middle of the tunnel. To do this, you have to pay an extra fee to take care of the man power involved…..but so well worth it.  They have caved out windows in the tunnel so you can see the heart dropping cliffs……even if you can’t stop.

Where we camped, we were totally surrounded by the canyon walls….giving you a stunning view.  Our running joke through the last couple of places was “this view sucks, it is so not worth it”……well, for the natural awe inspiring wonders you got to see…….totally worth it.  Plus with it being national parks, it is so less expensive then you would expect and its worth.  Our national park system is great for making sure that everybody is able to afford these great wonders of ours.

During 90% of our trip, we got a hell lot less connection then we thought we would.  That was a disappointment.  The work was piling up, so while at Zion there as a little town across the river with a café with internet.  So we spent about 3 hrs there just getting things caught up.  The sad about working online, is you about have to do it everyday.  =(

Current Mood: Working

*** 31st Aug @ 19:03

We are here in the Sequoia National Park, took so much longer to get here. We didn’t realize that we would be climbing, climbing and climbing to over 6000 ft elevation while doing it on the very winding, cliff dropping road. Lets just say that I rarely looked down…..icks. But it was beautiful.

Our campsite.

We just had a good dinner, have no internet, no biggie….so decided to work on our blog writings. We have a fire going, of course, we have a 2 families camping together….must be about 6-8 kids….right in our view, and a group of about 5-6 men camping to the side of us.

We are only allowed to run the generators between 8am-11am and 5pm-8pm, so we have it going for the fridge and charging everything up. There are no hook ups, but that was really to be expected. We were informed that we have to sleep with the windows closed unless we moved all of our food into the bear box next to the site! =)

We have 100ft tall trees all around and got to see a couple of the monster sequoia trees…..those were great. But that was just driving by. Tomorrow we are going to drive the RV to the next stop up so we can take a shuttle to deep forest. The shuttle doesn’t pick up from the camp site. Afterwards we’ll be back to the campsite for one more night.

But I’m going out of order here……….

After White Sands it was on to the Petrified Forrest and the Painted Desert. WOW! WOW! It was gorgeous. For one, I didn’t know that it was one and the same. The colors were a lot more ranged then I thought it could be. The Petrified Forrest reminded me of colored glass. Then the sky was stunning with its clouds formations and reflection of colors off of the cliffs and rocks near by. Words really don’t do it justice….So ere is a ton of pictures. And this is with my small camera.

That is the shadow of the cliff on the other side of the road…..so cool.

Then it was one to the next stop, which was the Meteor Crater. Well, if we were going to make it Flagstaff for the evening, we weren’t able to stop. So we found a RV park right outside of the crater and canceled the other one.

That park was a story and a half. We called, booked it and then arrived 30mins after they closed their check in!?! Luckily they had security. Took about 20mins of yelling to find him……annoying, but we got in. And it was a really nice park. They even had very soft grass right outside of their bathrooms…..I had to take my shoes off and put my feet into it! I haven’t felt that since Indiana…..sure in hell didn’t get that in Florida.

That park was right out side of the crater. Which we think it is privately owned for the pricing it had. National and state parks aren’t that much.

The Meteor Crater was created about 50,000 yrs ago, by a piece of astro that was about 150ft wide, weighed several thousand tons and hit the earth at 26,000mph. To walk the rim, it would be 2.25 miles around. It didn’t look that big….until you learn that they put a cut out of a 6ft tall astronaut on the bottom, that you couldn’t see without binoculars or a great zoom……..there was a rock, that didn’t look that far or that big, but it was as big as a 2 story house, that is just to give you an idea how big it was.

That little spot in the middle of the crater is where the cut out of a 6ft tall astronaut is.

Torn going down to take a few more pictures.

Current Mood: Accomplished

Started 24th of Aug @ 11:00 AZ time

I really wanted to do one of this daily, but with all the site seeing, driving, situating (if that is a word) and fighting for interact connection to get work done it wasn’t happening…..I’m pretty disappointed by that. =(

We picked up the RV on Monday the 20th. We actually were able to get a hold of it a little earlier so we were feeling pretty good about the time. Well good thing that we did get earlier, because it took longer to pack up the RV then we thought it would…..ggrrr Then, of course, it was one of the hottest days of the year…….which is always our luck.

**Trying it again 30th of Aug @ 13:18 Pacific Time Malibu, CA

As I was saying, I can’t believe how long it took just to get everything into the RV. It took 3-4 hrs! It really didn’t seem as we had that much, but damn!

After loading it up, I had to finish the cleaning of the house….sweeping, mopping, wipe downs….etc. It was so hot that I had to dump very cold water on me.

When all of that was done, we took one last jump into the pool just to cool off and enjoy. It felt good.

Then it was on to the shower, so I can turn in the keys to the house and I was going to say one last good-bye at work, but ran out of time. The rental car was due by 18:00 and it was 17:30 by now………….plus rush hour…..gggrrr I knew there was a reason why I wanted to get things done faster.

So I totally didn’t get to stop by, which irritated the hell out of me, but I did get the car in 5 min late so I wait in the long slow line to check it in. I figured if he saw that I waited, instead of the express, I wouldn’t be charged a late fee and I wasn’t. So 15min was a good investment.

So we were on the road around 18:30, our goal was to get inside the Mississippi line before stopping for a few hours. Well, that didn’t quite happen. We ended up stopping on the other side of Pensacola for a few hours. So we still did pretty good.

Honestly, that part was kind of a blur to me. When we loaded the RV we just put stuff everywhere. So I spent that evening and a good portion of the next day just trying to get things organized. It was driving me nuts that I couldn’t find anything, especially when my hubby asked for it.

During this time, our cats went into major hiding mode………..especially the boy, Reggie. It wasn’t until the 2nd day when Torn closed off the bedroom area to the cats that we were able to get them out. So we gave them some love. Now Alexis will come out when driving, demand attention and will sleep on the chairs and couch. Reggie, rarely comes out when driving, but will come out once we are stopped and settled. They both have a thing for sleeping on the dash board and peeking their heads thru the curtains when we close them. It is cute as hell…but, of course, to protect from claw marks we have put towels over the dash where they are currently stretched out sleeping very happily.

Taking over the chair.

Taking over the dash.

I know this may sound horrible about Florida, but it was so great to see actual vegetation when we hit Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana. It felt good to be headed west and out of that state. Florida was a good temp move, but we knew that we would never be staying there permanently. Some how, we always knew we would head west.

We stayed our 1st night in an RV park in Alamogordo, NM, right before White Sands National Park. Torn had been out here years ago with a bad camera and was never able to fully capture the beauty of it. So it was on the must see list.

It was stunning; I still don’t think our high-end cameras fully got it. The sand looked almost like black ice covered in snow on the roads and as bright as the freshly fallen snow.

We had a blast at White Sands. We climbed one of the dunes in our bare feet, it was so, so hot out but the sand was surprisingly cool. It felt great on my feet. I was even able to climb without my feet hurting and it gave me a great work out. So I need to put a sand dune in our very small back yard in Portland…….lol