MaryAlice Musings and More

  Wow, wow and we haven't even made it into the mountains yet, I can see them in distance and they are all snow capped.  We are just now pulling into Denver, Colorado.  MaryAlice had such a good time driving through the midwest, Illinois and Iowa and as it was getting dark I think we crossed into Nebraska.  You can see for miles and miiles and miles, first the flat fields of Illinois, then dthe little tiny rolling in Iowa.  It was daylight when we crossed over the Mississippi River, there are very historical towns along the river and we saw some really old beautiful buildings.  When you look out and see some trees you know that there is porbably a house there as well, protected by the trees and surrounded by rich dark farmland.   Mary is our porter, and she is really funny, and boy does she keep us all in line.  That is a good thing because we are on the train for a long time and we all have to take care of what we use.  We slept good la...

  Wow, it is a beautiful morning.  I had the best perch last night, and MaryAlice slept for a good 7 hours straight.  I got to watch the sun rise while it was so very quiet except for the blowing of the horn and the rolling of the car wheels as we made it through New York and Ohio.  We are in Indiana right now.  MaryAlice has some new church friends who just moved to Maine from Indiana, so she was thinking of them this morning.  I can tell the MaryAlice is happy, she is from the midwest and it feels like she is moving towards home.  She is moving slower and is enjoying looking out the window.  We already saw deer, some fun birds and lots of open spaces.  When Margaret and MaryAlice went to breakfast she was talking about the open spaces, we are going to see lots more open spaces, big sky, and vastness.  There is very green grass here, but not any buds on the trees.  We are still in the eastern time zone, but we will redo an entire h...

  Oh my,  I has been one year, 2 months, and 12 days (but I am not counting!) since I left for a long trip.  I have been planning this trip for the last 4 months.  For some of you who I have not met,  my name is Bubbles and I use they/she pronouns, I got to be with my person, MaryAlice after Myah (MaryAlice's Granddaughter) gifted me.  MaryAlice loves to take me on trips, and when she does I love to blog.  I have missed blogging, and I am happy that now I get another chance to share my trip with you.   We (MaryAlice and her friend Margaret) drove in Margaret's new car from Houlton to South Portland yesterday.  It was snow, sleet, rain, slippery spring weather all the way from the top of the state to south of Portland.  But we made it!   This morning, we got picked up and went to the Portland Transit Station and got on the Concord bus. It was grey, foggy, rainy all the way down.  I love to ride on the bus, I love when ...

  Well, itis being quite a trip.  Yes, this is Bubbles,  we are both fine  and I haven't really been able to think about what I might like to write about so I have just been going along for the ride and enjoying the view.   I can hardly remember what I last blogged about.  We were in the Driftless Land of south western Wisconsin.  We are still in Wisconsin, but we are in Madison, Wisconsin, also known as the MadCity, Cheeseheads and Badgers.  More people live here than in Portland, Bangor, Augusta and lots of little towns, over 282,000 and I don't know how many of the 164,000 students that go to the University of Wisconsin are included in that number.  MaryAlice has both an undergraduate and a graduate degree from UW, she is an alumni, and a long time ago   Dick Wagner (it is so sad that he died in 2021) and MaryAlice were the first co-chairs of the UW-Madison GLBTQ Alumni Association Group.  She has been thinking about D...

  It is the third day of the New Year, and we are still nestled into the Dome Home in Vernon County Wisconsin.  I was so happy to just be watching and taking in all that was happening as MaryAlice visited many of places and saw many of the people that she knew as a young woman. I love my perch from the purse or backpack, this morning as I am looking out the big triangle window to the east there is "sparkle snow" tiny little snowflakes that are just lit up in the sunlight.  It is not going to make the ground any more covered with snow as the sparkling flecks seem to disappear even before they hit the ground.   We haven't taken many pictures but here is one of me hanging out in the window at Maybe Lately's where we had lunch yesterday. We were in Viroqua, WI (that is the town where Sasha was born) and we had all the Bader Women and Peg together for a really good visit that traversed many decades and appreciation that we were all together.  As you can see, I h...

  This picture is the first picture that was on MaryAlice's camera on January 1st 2024.  This next picture is the last one that MaryAlice took for 2024. I am pretty happy to be able to do the "Bubbles Blog" for the last blog of this year.  Usually I live in MaryAlice's car, and that means I have been on a lot of roads, and car ferries, and a few parking lots and a couple of drive-ins.  This trip from Maine to Minnesota on the train (well a bus first) with stops in Chicago and then another train so that we are now in Vernon County Wisconsin has been my first not in the car trip!    So the first picture of this year was driving home from Presque Isle, where there had been a Pride Aroostook New Year's Eve Party.  That was a fun way to start the year.  The next picture is from a window in Marcia's dome home looking out to her long, down the hill driveway.  There is no snow here, and there has been no sun either.   Since getting to Minne...