Category: Travel
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Dance Like Nobody is Watching
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow many of us are self-conscious when dancing? It’s one thing to get out on the dance floor and shuffle our feet, move our hips a little, sway to the beat, and twist and turn in place. But it’s quite another to get out there, pull out all the stops, get out… Read more
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Retire Like a Millionaire
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast weekend my sister Lisa and I crashed the Lifestyle Visit my brother Denny and his wife Marlene made to The Villages in central Florida. Lisa and I have both lived in Florida for a while now and have, of course, heard about The Villages. Neither of us knew much about it… Read more
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I Love It When A Plan Comes Together
Reading Time: 4 minutesRemember 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 exhibit.… Read more
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Life is Damn Good
Reading Time: 2 minutesRandy 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 said… Read more
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Crazy Coincidences Leading to Utopia
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy 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 week… Read more
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How Mammoth is that Cave?
Reading Time: 4 minutesBeing 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 Wisconsin… Read more
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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