Archives in Category: Travel

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Dangerous

Posted on January 8, 2016

I usually try to stay under the radar when going through airport security: nothing metal in my pockets, no belt, no shoes, remove computer from case, remove liquids from luggage. I’ve traveled enough to know the drill, but it didn’t

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Getting Ready

Posted on January 7, 2016

We leave early tomorrow on vacation, so today I’m starting to shut down the house: unplug the computers and printer, stop the hand-wound clock, and empty the refrigerator of items that won’t last until we return.

I have a whole

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Crazy Weather

Posted on December 13, 2015

Earl and I often have some of our best conversations in the first few moments after we wake up.  This morning was no exception.

The weather here in southwestern Michigan has been balmy for the season.  Yesterday and today are

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Wicker Park

Posted on September 13, 2015

I am slowly returning home from a long weekend in Fargo, ND, and am currently waiting for my next connection in Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

I’ve never particularly liked O’Hare; it’s big and dirty and impersonal. It’s filled with high

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All the Way Home

Posted on May 8, 2015

It was a week ago that we spent our last night on the Regal Princess before disembarking on our own in Copenhagen, Denmark.

I’m one for marking all kinds of anniversaries, so today I’m acknowledging that I’m finally sleeping in

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Images

Posted on May 4, 2015

We’re on our way home, but I’m the sort of person whose body shows up at a destination long before her mind arrives.

So while Earl and I and our carry-ons head to the Copenhagen Airport, I’m recalling faces and

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In Country, Day Two

Posted on May 3, 2015

I’d read Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in college and knew the story centered on the Danish Prince who is instructed by his father’s ghost to seek revenge on those who killed him. As many Shakespearian tragedies do, it spirals downward from there.

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In Country, Day One

Posted on May 2, 2015

My son Kevin has described an in-country experience, particularly when you don’t know the language or the layout, as a time when you feel lost and stupid.  This certainly describes Earl and me at the end of Day One in

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Last Day

Posted on May 1, 2015

Today is our last day on the Regal Princess, as it is for about 1500 other passengers. (Another one thousand are staying on eleven more days and going to St. Petersburg.)

Those of us who are history tomorrow are cramming

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Mr. Bock

Posted on April 30, 2015

Mr. Bock was Earl’s high school German teacher about sixty-five years ago.  I’d heard about him from time to time, mostly how he wasn’t able to explain his native language to Earl, who is half German, and how he cut

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