Category: Travel
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Change of Scenery
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI 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 view… Read more
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In-Laws and Out-Laws
Reading Time: 4 minutesSeveral 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 disaster.… Read more
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5 Days is Not Long Enough
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’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 about… Read more
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Home
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf 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 Carolina,… Read more
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What a Circus!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI 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 how… Read more
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The Path Between the Seas
Reading Time: 4 minutesI 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 people… Read more
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I Broke My Foot Off
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt was January 1993 (I think). Twenty years after I’d graduated from junior college, I finally collected enough classes to qualify for a bachelor’s degree. Photo by Bruce Christianson on Unsplash That evening I took my very last final exam. We were living in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Folsom, CA in… Read more
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About That Bubble
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn my short post explaining why we decided to take our very first cruise, I said people have always been the reason we’ve never taken one before…the anticipation of so many people in so little space. That turned out to be true. Cruising, at least the kind we did, involves lots of… Read more
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Swimming Pigs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteImagine (if you can) that one of your dream vacations is to visit the Bahamas, mainly to have the Swimming Pigs experience. OK, neither can I imagine that. But I did find a travel blogger who said that. See for yourself here. Our cruise included a choice to book a shore… Read more
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Unplugged
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s an old debate about whether all the technology we use daily makes our lives easier or harder, whether it simplifies or complicates our existence. I can argue the issue either way. The truth is, though, I’m tired of how enslaved to technology I’ve become. That’s not to say that I’m brave… Read more