Category: Travel
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Welcome Home, Veteran Heroes
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn the book I’ve recommended several times on this blog, The Women by Kristin Hannah, there is a scene where the main character, Frankie, an Army Nurse, rotates back to the United States in 1969 after 2 tours in Vietnam. She is wearing her uniform. The Los Angeles airport is filled with… Read more
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A Deluge of Emotion
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe Honor Flight Randy and I were privileged to be selected for took place a week ago today. Since that day I’ve been racking my brain to think of a word to describe how overwhelmingly emotional it was. It is with 100% certainty I tell you I am still not recovered from… Read more
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(It’s Our) Honor Flight
Reading Time: 5 minutesBeing a military veteran in the United States defines you in many ways. This is especially true as you age and think back on what you accomplished in your life. There’s a generation, now almost gone, who served in World War II. I always thought the soldiers who fought in WWII were… Read more
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Gatorland!
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe went up to Orlando late last week to spend a few days with our sister-in-law, Laura, from Green Bay. She was down here visiting her brothers and stepmom. We’re not big Orlando fans and weren’t sure what she wanted to do in the 48 hours we had together. Turned out she… Read more
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So, This is What “The Future” Looks Like
Reading Time: 5 minutesFifty (50) years doesn’t seem like such a long time when you’re looking back on it. But when we were married in 1975, “science fiction” was focused on the years around the turn of the 21st century to the early 2020s. I laugh, because computer technology has come a long, long way… Read more
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Just the Facts, Ma’am
Reading Time: 6 minutesAs we contemplated whether or not to undertake the Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Road Trip, we greatly considered the cost of the adventure. I’m a relative cheapskate which is why, Randy claims, we have the money to even consider doing something of this magnitude. Part of the considerations, as I’ve written… Read more
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We’re Back Home
Reading Time: 6 minutesWe rolled into our garage yesterday afternoon, which ended the Road Trip, Phase 2, of the Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Road Trip. The Epic 50th Anniversary Grand Adventure Continues. Our actual anniversary is in December. We’ve been in the car every day for the last week for a minimum of 5… Read more
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Coolest Rest Stop Ever
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery day truly is a new travel adventure. This week we’re in a part of the country we’ve never been through before, traveling I-10 East from Tucson, Arizona to San Antonio, Texas. From an interstate highway rest stop perspective, every state does things a little differently. On Tuesday we stopped at the… Read more
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The Long, Long, Long State of California
Reading Time: 6 minutesOn Sunday afternoon we crossed into Arizona on Interstate 40. I can’t say I was sorry to say good-bye to California. I WON’T say I was sorry to say good-bye to California. I have a love/hate relationship with what we used to call, even 40 years ago when we lived there, the… Read more
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A Relaxing Few Days
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor the past few days we’re back in the Sierra Nevada foothills where, when we lived in the Sacramento area for 12 years (1982-1994), we spent a heck of a lot of time. Our forever friends, Don and Ina live on 10 acres between Grass Valley and Auburn. They have 2 horses,… Read more