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We’re back but we’ve crashed

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Final mileage total, TX to Chicago and back

There it is, folks.

3,061 miles round trip from our driveway in TX to Chicago and back.

The great Midwest Road Trip is finished and we’re glad to be home, but just in case we get too cocky about all the fun at the BlogHer conference and all the articles we have to write….the laptop crashed.

So, it’s off to call up some repair expertise now that I’ve experienced a major computer malfunction like my fellow travel writer Liz Lewis.

Yes, I had some items backed up and my email accounts and blogs are all net-based so I didn’t lose them, but I hadn’t backed up as thoroughly or regularly as I should have.

Learn from my mistake and get a big fat portable hard drive to back up your documents, photos and bookkeeping software!

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So long, Frank Lloyd Wright

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Frank Lloyd Wright's skyscraper (Scarborough photo)       A closer look at the copper panels (Scarborough photo)

You never know what you’ll find on a road trip.

Did you know that architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s only skyscraper was built in 1956 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma? 

Today the soaring, slender Price Tower with its distinctive verdigris-copper-clad exterior houses an exhibit area, a swanky restaurant and an upscale hotel.

Now you know….

Technorati tags: travel, family travel, Frank Lloyd Wright, Oklahoma, skyscraper, architecture, Price Tower Arts Center

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State Park secret: CCC cabins at Osage Hills

Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Our cabin at Osage Hills State Park, Oklahoma (Scarborough photo)This is a quick note about our lodgings after we stopped in ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Getting our kicks on Oklahoma’s Route 66

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Vintage gas station on Route 66, Oklahoma (Scarborough photo)In our drive across Oklahoma from Duncan to Pawhuska, we only had time for ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Riding the Chisholm Trail in Oklahoma

Saturday, July 21st, 2007
Goofing around at the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center (Scarborough photo)We're still in cattle-driving mode, heading north from [Continue reading this entry]

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One night in Cowtown: Fort Worth

Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Fort Worth Stockyards (courtesy traveller2020 on flickr CC)Well, with me running around trying to do too much, we didn't get on the road ... [Continue reading this entry]

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We’re off to explore the “Square States”

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
BlogHer '07 I'm SpeakingToday my teenage daughter and I are launching the minivan on our US Midwest Road Trip. I'm honored to be a Day One panelist speaker at the [Continue reading this entry]

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