The view from our hotel just outside Joshua Tree National Park was breathtaking the morning of our ninth day on the road. Little did I know, my emotions would soon be as tumultuous as the terrain I’d woken up to. I was already in a somewhat sullen mood after the Bobbseys and I dropped Claire off at the Palm Springs airport…
Category: What a trip
Triplog Day 8 — More Digging in the Desert
Another day in my happy place was the perfect start for our second week on the road. With a working chair, I was able to wheel all over my grandparents’ place with relative ease, only managing to get myself stuck a handful of times in windswept piles of sand. We spent much of the early…
Triplog Day 7 — Full Bellies and Hearts
Finally. A full week into this wild ride we’ve been on and it’s beginning to feel like the vacation I hoped it would be. With no wheelchair to fix and no medical supplies to chase down, the morning began by the pool. Some of us stayed longer than we should have, and others had the dumb…
Triplog Day 6 — Johnny Five is ALIVE!!
There’s always been a joke about traveling that trip is a four letter-word. Well, after waking up early to call the wheelchair people about my replacement motors that were supposed to arrive this morning and hearing them say they still weren’t there, I was just about ready to concede our vacation to that cliché. The repairs manager said it was…
Triplog Day 5 — The Happiest Place on Earth
Nope. Not Disneyland. About two hours east of Walt’s famous theme park lies a five-acre parcel of mostly desolate sand that will forever be my second home thanks to two almost-90-year-old lovebirds; my Grandpa Ed and Grandma Betty. Just a few hours with them is almost enough to make you completely forget about the previous four…
Triplog Day 4 — P-Push It Real Good
Realistically, when you are four days into a road trip and just about every piece of technology you depend on has either flown out the back of your car topper almost killing someone or just mysteriously stopped working altogether, you have two options: you can cry, or you can laugh. Leave it to us to find a third…
Triplog Day 3 – Adventure in the High Sierras
Our third day on the road started off magnificently. Having received some route tips from my cousin Lynsey’s boyfriend Don the night before, we set out for the hills towards Lake Tahoe in hopes of seeing the sights. As we climbed the switchbacks leading to snowcapped peaks, we knew we wouldn’t be disappointed. Even with slightly overcast…
Triplog Day 2 — Good Times in the Biggest Little City
How do you follow one of the most chaotic road trip days of all-time? With free breakfast, of course. If you’re ever in SuzyTown and in need of a hotel, make sure you pick the Best Western on Main, which is nestled beside a cozy little diner called Lumberjacks and offers complimentary vouchers for the joint to…
Triplog Day 1 — Kenny’s Law
Everyone knows Murphy’s Law, which states that in a given situation, anything that can happen will happen. But with my laundry list of medical mysteries and complications over the last decade, it’s been the long-running joke among my family and friends that Old Man Murphy should retire his namesake and hand it over to me. Today was a fine example of…
Road Warrior
Just a quick public service announcement for anyone on the road between Seattle and Southern California over the next couple weeks – beware of a silver Honda Odyssey ramp van (a.k.a. The Silver Bullet a.k.a. The Short Bus) with the above license plates being driven as if it were recently stolen. Yep. It’s that time…
Kenny Salvini 