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Lee POV: you’re going the wrong way
Guest post by Lee – see MeLinda’s version of the same story on her post I am the driver. When we go on trips my job is to get behind the wheel and drive. So when we made our drive to Big Bend National Park I was behind the wheel for the whole drive. MeLinda’s job is navigator, restaurant locator and to sit there and look pretty. For those who know me I don’t have the greatest sense of direction but sooner or later I will find my way to the destination. MeLinda is my navigational security blanket and most times I shut down my brain when driving. When I’m…
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Trip Guide: Columbia, Missouri
When my Mizzou Tigers left the Big 12 Conference to move to the Southeastern Conference in 2012, one of the few benefits I could see was that this could be my excuse for visiting areas of the country where I haven’t traveled much. Yet one of the obvious downsides for me is that same geography. I’m no longer in the heart of my team’s conference – my home base of Wichita, Kansas, allowed me to get to nearly all of the Big 12 towns easily. My husband, Lee, and I made one road trip during the Tigers’ inaugural SEC football season, going to Columbia, South Carolina, in September 2012. As…
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Crossing of my streams
At the same time I started this personal blog, I started a portfolio website that is also set up on a blog platform. Over at melindaschnyder.com, I’m adding current projects as blog posts. As I get time, I’ll also be adding some past projects. The main purpose of that site is to show my photography and writing skills to potential clients and publications that I pitch. Since I get a lot of friends and family asking what exactly I do as a freelance writer, though, I thought I could cross my streams here and share those posts through this blog, too. Click on the cover image below. It’ll take you over…
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Trip pix: Big Bend National Park teaser
I’ve been slow to post here lately because Lee & I were on a marathon road trip, stories from which I’m sure will make it to this blog eventually! We started with a drive from Wichita to Dallas so I could go to the P!nk concert (watch the amazeballs 70 second clip of her concert performance at that link, you can thank me later!) while Lee visited with cousins. Then we set out to drive to the far southwest part of Texas to explore Big Bend National Park. I have some great photos that I hope to sort through soon, but for now here are a few to give you an idea…