Tag Archives: road trip

Fossils

Sun­day morn­ing I packed one of those paper gro­cery bags with blood oranges from my back­yard tree, a hand­ful of shelled wal­nuts in a plas­tic bag­gie, a few cans of good gin­ger ale, a bag of home­made corn chips, a pack­age of fig cook­ies, and I stuck it in the back of my van. I

Corn on the Cam

Ever since my two young boys dis­cov­ered worm­holes and shape-shifting aliens, I promised we would visit the Star Trek Expe­ri­ence in American’s city of sin. I put the trip off for months, then a year. Las Vegas ain’t cheap, and the Hilton charges a cool forty dol­lars a warm body to hurl through space and