Category: Family
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Making Our Way to Sedona
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe spent 3 days driving The Mother Road. The first night’s stop was in Weatherford, OK. The second night we veered a little south, off the interstate highway to visit some family in Clovis, NM. That drive, Oklahoma through the Texas Panhandle, then southwest to Clovis, was nothing special. The evening we… Read more
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This Could Now Be Home
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I was planning for this Grand Adventure Road Trip (GART) I made a spreadsheet detailing the duration of the adventure. Each row on the spreadsheet represented one night. The columns keep track of where we spent the night, how many miles we drive, and how much money we spent on food,… Read more
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And….We’re Off
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve written the last few weeks about some fairly weighty topics. I’m done with those for a while now and am ready to turn 68andCounting.com into a travelogue during our Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Road Trip–E50AGART, for short. We’ve been planning this for months. It’s evolved some since we spent a… Read more
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Happy, Happy, Happy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ve been home just over a week. The day we left Manitowoc, 4 days after she moved into her new apartment in a fantastic senior living facility, I don’t think she even noticed we were gone. She is busy, busy, busy, and happy, happy, happy. This picture was taken last Monday,… Read more
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A Hell of a Lot of Work
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m not gonna lie. Moving from a place you’ve lived in for 13 years is a hell of a lot of work. And when you’re going to be 91 in a few weeks, it’s completely overwhelming and discombobulating. The good news for my mom is that she has 6 kids, 5 of… Read more
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When It’s Time for a Senior Living Community
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen we get to retirement age, if we’re lucky enough to have parents who are still living, often times there begins a role reversal that is quite interesting for all involved. I wrote about it 18 months ago in a post linked here. Six months after that when I went to Wisconsin… Read more
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Road Trip to Wisconsin, Again
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRandy and I arrived in Manitowoc, Wisconsin yesterday after a very pleasant 3-day road trip. We’ll be here for nearly a month. It’s a nice time of the year to be up in Wisconsin, though it’s still colder than we’d like. But we’re here to help move my mom to a… Read more
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Grandkids Rule…
Reading Time: 5 minutesNow here’s a topic we don’t talk about much in this blog. Randy and I don’t have kids, so it follows, logically, that we’re completely devoid of and inexperienced with grandkids. My mom once had a T-shirt that said, “If I’d known grandkids were so much fun, I would have had them… Read more
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It’s a REALLY Small World, After All!
Reading Time: 5 minutesRandy and I drove down to Naples last Friday to attend the weekly Happy Hour at my sister Lisa’s condo complex. There are only 82 units, about half are full-time residents, but it’s “season” in Florida so Happy Hour included a lot of snowbirds. We wouldn’t normally drive down to Naples for… Read more
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Oh, What a Night
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe 1975 song by the Four Seasons starts out… Oh, what a nightLate December back in sixty threeWhat a very special time for meI remember, what a night My night was in mid-March back in sixty-five, but oh my, the memory of that night is vivid. And the night was, for me,… Read more