Archives in Category: Travel

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Tanning

Posted on December 9, 2005

Four weeks from today Earl and I head south; and I mean really south, as in the Caribbean and Venezuela. We’re taking our annual get-away-from-winter-for-ten-days cruise. So today we started our tanning regimen.

Now I know all the caveats and

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Snow

Posted on December 7, 2005

It’s the first snow of the year; and, at the rate the little flakes are coming down, we’re almost guaranteed a white Christmas even though we’re eighteen days away. I’ve shoveled our front walk three times in the last six

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Home Again

Posted on November 27, 2005

We’re heading home. Back through Denver International Airport. Then to Midway International Airport in Chicago. Then to our car and a one hundred mile trip down the road to our house on Derfla Drive.

I must attribute my mother, who

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Travel Time

Posted on November 23, 2005

Today claims the record as the busiest day of the year for travelers; it’s the day before the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend and everyone is on the move. Earl and I are right there.

I debated about whether to travel

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New York City

Posted on November 9, 2005

There is no place in our country like New York City. I haven’t been to all the major metropolises of the world, so I hesitate to say New York is the top of the tops; but I wager it’s a

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School Bus

Posted on October 13, 2005

Our new routine is to get up each morning and go to the health club before dawn. Around here dawn comes late, so I’m pulling out of my garage about seven. As I turn the corner onto Bacon School Road

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Travel

Posted on October 11, 2005

My remodeling project is about to swallow the rest of my life, which is why I write about something totally unrelated to drywall, plumbing, or the thickness of plywood.

Travel has always been one of my pastimes, having been part

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Ireland

Posted on July 27, 2005

“What time of the year would you like to visit Ireland,” Earl asked. It wasn’t a question out of the blue, since Ireland is on our list of places to visit together.

“Summer,” I answered. “I’ve done March and it

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Car Names

Posted on July 24, 2005

When I was the age that a new car turned my head, the Detroit automotive manufacturers were into animal names. There was the Mustang, the Cougar, the Impala, and the Colt. There was the Jaguar too, but that was a

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Springfield, IL

Posted on June 20, 2005

These past few days I’ve been to Lincoln’s country. That’s Abraham Lincoln and the country is the city of Springfield, Illinois. It’s an amazing place.

Springfield puts Lincoln in an entirely different context from what you read in history books.

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