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Happy birthday, America. Today you are 244 years young, which in country years makes you only 4.
‘Til Death Do We Fart
Yes, this picture is cheesy, but nothing about this article is. For the record, we never do this in real life.
Apologies to All Witches
Trick-or-treating in crappy weather asking strangers to feed my children candy... What's not to love?
The Real Reason Your Friends Post So Many Pictures of their Kids Online
For a parent, there's only one other day as dreaded as Halloween, and that's School Picture Day. I know are probably thinking, What could be more terrifying than having to sew the perfect Minecraft Enderman outfit in time for the Halloween candy crush, only to be followed by red dye psychosis and a visit to …
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Fair Shenanigans and Rogue Ferries
Sometimes I wonder if life is really an alien experiment to see how we humans react. The beginning and middle of our adventure was ridiculous, so there was no reason it shouldn’t end in shenanigans. The first time my four year-old ran away at the Haines Fair, we discovered her in the bouncy house. Later …
Out of Gas & Cell Service on the Chilkat Pass
My husband has jerry-rigged so much stuff, his last name should be a verb: "Wow, you really Haffner'd that one..." "Dang, check out that Haffner!" And the more embarrassing, "Sort of a half-ass Haffner, don't you think?" Don't get me wrong, I mean this in the most loving way possible. If it weren't for his …
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Thunder, Lightning, and I Found My Spirit Animal
Ahhhhh, Takhini Hot Springs… a lovely outdoor Olympic pool-sized bath fed by the natural hot springs of the Takhini underworld, where everything moves as if in slow-motion-- like after dancing it up all night in the club then walking into daylight for the first time in a blurry-eyed state of blissful exhaustion just as the …
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Behemoth’s Maiden Voyage, Day 1: Wah, I want to go home!
The first five minutes in the Behemoth weren’t good. On first smell I could tell something wasn’t right. Then something in the truck caused my hyper sensitive lungs to react, and suddenly I needed my inhaler. On our first corner we climbed a small hill, and our flatbed Chevy Cheyenne work truck slowly putted up …
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Yukon, here we come!
First time in the Behemoth, an old asphalt paving flat-bed truck that was completely undriveable just two weeks ago, road tripping with a camper on the Golden circle from Skagway, Alaska, to Whitehorse, Canada, and ending up in Haines for the SE Alaska State Fair. Maneuvering at top speeds of 25 mph through windy, winding, …
