Ready to get out of the house? Me too!
If I read the newspaper, or watch something on the Travel or Food channel and see something interesting - I WANT to go there. There’s a ringing inside me (if Bill is home, it comes to me on vibrate).
"Hello", the open road is calling.
To make any trip happen, I need help from my husband Bill. He is the family planner and organizer. I think of myself as the idea person.
I start the questions.
"Bill, did you know there is a chance of digging for diamonds in Arkansas?"
"Bill, I think you would like to see the glaciers in Alaska."
"Bill, did you know there is a village in Mexico where pottery suns are made?"
"Bill, there’s an audience show at QVC in Pennsylvania in February".
Bill always rolls his eyes in exasperation and says something, reality based.
"We have bills to pay."
"We said we were going to try and cut back on trips."
"Remember Eve, you wanted to pay off the house this year?"
I am quiet and wait for his thinking process to make a connection with my gypsy heart.
Yippie! After some time has passed, Bill asks me, "Where were you thinking of going?" No matter how crazy my ideas, Bill finds a way. He is the I can make this happen guy. We almost always go!
There is a broader picture. Bill has an activity he enjoys called Geocaching. Let me explain.

Geocaching (pronounced geo-caching) is a worldwide game of hide and seek. It is something like a global scavenger hunt. A geocacher hides a cache (also called "finds") . The person hiding the cache pinpoints its location using GPS, global positioning system, technology and publishes the cache's existence and location online. Go to this website www.geocaching.com. and type in your home zip code. Hundreds of hidden caches will be listed, right in your neighborhood. If your cell phone has GPS features, you can locate a geocache as well. Geocaching is a part of any of our travel. It is free and you visit amazing places. A goal is to locate a cache in every state. Seven states to go! Forty three states have been witness to bushwacking through brush and brambles, climbing trees , wading across streams, tumbling down hills, torn jeans, ripped shirts all in the name of BIG fun!

On occasion, I have geocached with Bill. More often than not, I'm in the car, reviewing my trip photographs-editing the good from the not so good. My story is "someone has to be your backup, ready and alert to call 911, when you run across a rattlesnake nest, wild pigs, feral dogs or are stuck in quicksand. Back in the car, he just laughs, takes a drink from his water bottle, fires up the car, turns on the air conditioning and we are off again.

Last week, we took a day trip to Marble Falls, TX. This small town is about 40 miles west of our hometown, Austin. I read about a local restaurant that served wonderous pie. Food is a very important part of my day.
Me Oh My, I LOVE pie! 

Since we were off to find pie, I was wearing a Quacker Factory green gingham seersucker set embroidered with cherries. This is in honor of cherry pie. Don’t you love great looking comfortable clothes?

Driving west, wildflowers were covering the highway medians. The fields and meadows showed off their richness of bluebonnets, Indian paintbrushes, wine cups, daisies, poppies and many more.

We stopped for snap shots and of course, geocaches - finally arriving at the Bluebonnet Cafe. Texas home cooking, at its best. At the Bluebonnet Cafe, "Pie Happy Hour" happens everyday. Once inside, we ordered a big lunch of chicken fried steak, had cherry pie for dessert and ordered 2 more slices of pie,"to go". Yum-MOS!

Happy and full, we head for home. And so ends a day of great adventure.