mlbohnSep 1, 20207 minIt's so quiet around here....Ready to make peace with moose and bear, Hans and Max climbed into Jacob's fire engine red Jeep pickup and set off for the North Maine Wo...
mlbohnAug 24, 20207 minHomeward BoundI realized after the second brandy on our first night in PA that we had not visited without children in over 22 years. Over the next 3 da...
mlbohnAug 20, 20203 minAlways looking for those silver liningsThere's something unique about the Pennsylvania landscape. As we drive east on route 76, the farms spread out even more than in Ohio, and...
mlbohnAug 19, 20204 minOne down, one to goAfter a lovely 2-hour ride through verdant corn fields of central Ohio, we passed the Denison baseball stadium on our left. The last time...
mlbohnAug 16, 20204 minOur new normalDAY 157 - I think it’s finally time to stop counting days. Today marks the end of our Bohn family extended day program as we begin our tr...
mlbohnAug 5, 20206 minDAY 147 - Quitting Time“No one likes a quitter.” I can’t recall who first said it to me or why, but the words have stuck like glue. There are others. Practice m...
mlbohnJul 28, 20205 minDAY 138 - What I didn't do on my summer vacationI've been going to the Cape for summer vacations for as long as I can remember. As a child, we would go with my cousins and share a house...
mlbohnJul 19, 20204 minDay 129 - BKU We were talking about summer jobs earlier tonight, and I recall one summer that almost changed my career path....well, not really, but it...
mlbohnJul 12, 20204 minDAY 123 - Tractors, Start Your Engines! Day 3, Barton County Fair — We all woke and went about packing up our site with a lift in our step, knowing that we would be on the road ...
mlbohnJul 10, 20205 minDAY 120 - Don't Meet Me at the Barton County Fair, part 1For several fun-filled summers before marriage and children and home ownership and all of the other responsibilities of adulthood, I play...
mlbohnJul 9, 20204 minDAY 119 - Take me out to the ballgame, pleaseThis may be the first summer in 15 years that we haven't suited up one of the boys for baseball. Josh is the only one playing baseball at...
mlbohnJul 8, 20203 minDAY 118 - Feeling ReflectiveI told a story a few weeks ago about our old handyman, Scott Ayres. We were lucky enough to know Scott for almost 15 years until he died ...
mlbohnJul 7, 20203 minDAY 117 - Practice Makes PerfectWhy is it that I make a typo in every single post I write? Every day I put the finishing touches on my post then hit publish, only to rea...
mlbohnJul 3, 20204 minDay 114 - Welcome reliefA powerful little rainstorm just passed directly over us. These tropical outbursts are so exciting. One minute we are sitting on the scre...
mlbohnJul 2, 20205 minDay 113 - Leaky faucets and other water woesOur kitchen faucet is leaking. I realized it the other night as I was washing some dishes and my feet were getting wet. I looked for the ...
mlbohnJul 1, 20204 minDay 112 - A Little Bit of Local PoliticsIt was fun to be part of the solution rather than the problem today while helping out at our local town elections. There were only a coup...
mlbohnJun 29, 20204 minDay 111 - The Fairhaven Vacation Wraps UpTuesday morning is a bit of a blur. After I got an OK to move to my friend's house on the Cape, we immediately started packing. My brothe...
mlbohnJun 29, 20205 minDay 110 - Homeward BoundI’m home, but it was so great to spend a few days with my parents this week. We didn’t do much, but we covered a lot of ground. I hardly ...
mlbohnJun 28, 20206 minDay 109: The Fairhaven Vacation, part 3 (Monday/Tuesday morning)She's an Animal! Hans and I got up early on Monday since we had barely slept anyway the night before. The carriage house was imposingly h...
mlbohnJun 27, 20205 minDay 108: The Fairhaven Vacation, part 2 (Sunday)It was after dark by the time we pulled into the driveway of the rental house. It seemed a little smaller than I imagined, and I didn't s...