No, This Blog is Not Defunct. It is Still Funct.

It's been a while since a new post and my excuse is that we've been traveling so much. Last year, of course, we were in Spain and the Basque Country from early July until mid-December. This year we've been catching up on visiting family. We made three long-ish car trips to Idaho, California, and Washington this summer. By my count that means that we put the following mileage on the odometer:

Idaho: 800 miles round trip
California: 1500 miles round trip
Washington: 1600 miles round trip

That's nearly 60 hours and 4000 miles of driving this summer, or half-way to the moon (more or less). And, of course, we picked the summer of record-setting high gas prices to do it. But it wasn't really that bad. The kids are old enough to travel pretty well now and I listened to podcats of Hubert Dreyfus' course on Division I of Heidegger's Being and Time on my iPod.

The last trip was nice: it had been three years since I had been in Wenatchee and Paul, Michelle's dad, had just retired after many years of teaching Sociology and Philosophy classes at Wenatchee Valley College (I inherited a hefty box of some of his old philosophy books. Bless you, Paul!). Michelle's siblings were there, including her brother Dan and his family, from Ohio. More pictures to come.