Category: Travel
-
I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Reading Time: 4 minutes Remember the old A-Team television show? Hannibal’s line at the end of each show was “I love it when a plan comes together.” I really enjoyed The A-Team for several reasons. First, way back when we lived in Sacramento we visited a Los Angeles theme park where there was an A-Team… Read more
-
Life is Damn Good
Reading Time: 2 minutes Randy and I arrived home today after being on the road for one day shy of 3 weeks. You know from my previous posts that we have, in the past, really loved road tripping. Yesterday, after a particularly brutal driving segment of the trip (Franklin, TN to Lake City, FL) Randy… Read more
-
Crazy Coincidences Leading to Utopia
Reading Time: 4 minutes My brother Denny called me a few days before we arrived at my mom’s. He said he met a guy in Manitowoc who had a 77-foot (end to end) sailboat moored in front of the Cobia Submarine Maritime Museum on the river. He was walking along the riverfront one day the… Read more
-
How Mammoth is that Cave?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Being retired is great. No getting around it. I am rich beyond imagination by the definition that true wealth is control over your own time. After our little jaunt to Gatlinburg (we didn’t check into the house until the third night after we left Florida) we meandered our way up to… Read more
-
Change of Scenery
Reading Time: < 1 minute I love living at the beach but as I’ve said many times before, sometimes you’ve got to travel away from the paradise you live in to see people you love. That’s what happened this week. We’re spending time in the mountains with Randy’s siblings and their spouses. This is the… Read more
-
In-Laws and Out-Laws
Reading Time: 4 minutes Several years ago, before COVID totally disrupted everyone’s lives, Randy’s immediate family made plans for a mini-reunion in conjunction with a trip to visit the life-sized Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. We ended up cancelling once and rescheduling, then cancelling the second time because COVID was….well, a… Read more
-
5 Days is Not Long Enough
Reading Time: < 1 minute We’re wrapping up our visit this morning to the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri where we lived for 23 years. We flew in Monday morning and we’re flying out this morning, Friday. That’s just a hair over 96 hours to spend in a place we loved, with people we care… Read more
-
Home
Reading Time: 4 minutes If I asked you where home is for you, what would you say? In September, Randy and I are headed to Gatlinburg, Tennessee where, with 2 of his sisters and 1 of his brothers and their spouses, we rented a house. Gatlinburg is sort of centrally located between Missouri, Wisconsin, North… Read more
-
What a Circus!
Reading Time: 5 minutes I don’t know what it is about retirement. Maybe my mind is not cluttered anymore with all the things I need to think about and retain now that I’m not committed to a paying job for most of my waking hours. Or maybe it’s just that, like the old joke about… Read more
-
The Path Between the Seas
Reading Time: 4 minutes I think I’ve mentioned in previous posts that 10-15 years ago I got interested in American History in a big way. That led to putting an item on my bucket list to read a biography of every president in order. I am not so much interested in the individual presidents as… Read more