Woodland, United States

... some cacti, Joshua trees, and windmills. We talked a lot and listened to a new book -- Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. We finished In Cold Blood yesterday, so we started this one. It's shorter, as it's an abridged version -- it ...

... grad-school-lagged so I have to confess that we did stop for two more naps! We FINALLY made it to the adorable little town of Woodland Park, nestled in the trees and his parents' house with a great view of Pike's Peak all of 26 hours later! Eek. Jeff ...

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Melanie's blog: When we drove up the next day to Mt St Helens, we were shocked.  After we reached a certain point, the landscape was no longer forests, but a barren landscape with blacked ground, burnt and fallen trees and randomly scattered ...