Archives in Category: Travel

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Jet Lag

Posted on August 14, 2006

My definition of jet lag is: That period of time where your body shows up first and your mind arrives some time later. It isn’t necessarily about airplanes.

Earl and I returned home yesterday afternoon from our recent road

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Road Trip Requirements

Posted on August 13, 2006

We arrived home from our road trip earlier this evening, having driven 770 miles over the past week. As road trips go, this wasn’t a grueling pace. Regardless, I learned some things about road trips that will be useful in

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Time

Posted on August 11, 2006

Living in motel rooms for a week detaches you from time. Not the kind you check on your wristwatch, but the kind that pervades your home.

Think about this: Your microwave tells time so that it can be programmed

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Road Trip

Posted on August 7, 2006

On the road again, on the road again . . . I’m reminded of a Willy Nelson lyric as Earl and I driver across Indiana and part of Illinois to revisit the historic town of Galena, home of Ulysses S.

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Buffalo Wings

Posted on June 15, 2006

I was introduced to Buffalo wings about fifteen years ago, when they arrived — unheralded — in Mundelein, Illinois. It was a tiny, A-frame shack that offered them, six to a serving, noting they were direct from Buffalo,NY.

I didn’t

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Upstate New York

Posted on June 12, 2006

I’ve been gone from the blogging scene over a week. In fact, I’ve been gone from contemporary society equally as long, as Earl and I drove to upstate New York to visit the area where my early relatives settled, created

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NYC Can Drive You Crazy

Posted on May 16, 2006

Last week I spent a few days in New York, checking in with my bosses at fredflare.com. I love New York, but every trip there makes me an even firmer believer in the adage that it’s a great place to

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Comedy of Air-ers

Posted on April 26, 2006

I’m not the first person to note that air travel isn’t what it used to be. I’m just the most recent. I’ve been on three planes in the last two days, and two of the flights had their share of

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Maps

Posted on April 4, 2006

I was rooting around in Earl’s car’s glove compartment looking for a particular map, and it struck me that the contents of the compartment provided a history of our road trips together. I smiled in remembrance.

We bought the map

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Heading Home

Posted on April 2, 2006

As the crow flies, it’s almost six hundred miles between our home in Michigan and Spring City, Tennessee, where Earl’s parents lived and where — up the road — they are now buried together. As the road winds, it’s probably

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