Earl and I spent last evening organizing photographs of the various trips and events we’ve enjoyed so far this year. We put Costa Rica in one album and Alaska in another. As I slipped the pictures into little their plastic

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I’ve traveled to Colorado and back in the past five days. As only the latest in a long line of trips we’ve taken this year, I’ve observed much in our nation’s airports.

First, there is no consistency in the security

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While we were in Alaska’s Denali National Park, we attended a presentation about the brave (crazy) mountaineers whose passion was to scale the summit of Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America.

The presenter — I’ll call him Mr. New

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I leave for Alaska, the last American frontier, early in the morning. Most likely I will not be writing the next two weeks, since where we are going is rather primitive by computer standards. Rather I will be basking in

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Earl and I leave for Alaska in less than 72 hours. We’ve both said many times how it will be the trip of a lifetime, how we separately and together have talked about going to the last American frontier for

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