I have a busy few weeks ahead: four trips scheduled in the next 6 weeks. The week after next, I am deserting Sue and travelling to Charlotte, NC, for a business trip. I leave Sunday night and return home Thursday night. I would like to tell you that I really like the city of Charlotte, …
Category: Relationships
This is not ‘Nam…There are rules.(*)
I was meditating on what we should do around the Arenal Volcano and my conclusion is that we should honor the gods and toss a virgin into the volcano. However, Sue informs me that this is against the rules. I am very disappointed. (I hope no one is thinking of taking Steven seriously--ever.) Instead we …
Oh The Things We Will Do & See
We (read Sue) did quite a bit of planning for Costa Rica this weekend. Usually we try and organize quite a bit of our excursions before we go, or at least we sketch out what we are doing. For this trip, we decided to plan what we wanted to do but then pretty much try …
Oh, The Things We Will Do
I know that Sue promised you that I would have my trip spreadsheet ready by today, but I am afraid that I just have not gotten to it yet. Have no fear, I will get it done, perhaps for my next post. In the meantime, we have been looking at all the things to do …
We Have a Plan
This will be us when we visit Steven's mom. We got three inches or so of snow on Sunday night/Monday morning and the temps have stayed in the mid-20s. Oh boy, I love Chicago. Despite our best efforts, we just couldn’t figure where to go abroad for winter break. Everything was very expensive and the trips …
The hiatus was longer than I expected
We apologize, we truly meant to restart the blog as soon as the wedding was over, but the next week or so was a bit of a whirlwind and so here we are, married for 18 days and still haven't updated the blog. We are slackers. In our defense, we are also honeymooners, so there …
Vacation, All I Ever Wanted
Sigh. We have hit the vacation doldrums. We just planned the trip to New York; my return to work is rapidly approaching, and we have no idea what the vacation future holds, or really what the future past New York holds. Vacation planning keeps me going. It's a way of exploring while living daily life. …
The MLB All-Star Game
My son and I left early to get to the game. It started at 8 p.m., but we wanted to be there when the gates opened at 4:30--p.m., of course. We drove to the Greenbelt Metro stop and took the train from there to the stadium. Given the uncertainties of the drive and the train …
Who needs to plan ahead?
I know, this posting is two days late. I am sorry, I've been otherwise occupied and simply haven't had the time to get this one done. When we last left off our intrepid travelers, they had just returned home from a two-week, all-fun vacation to the outer reaches of Utah. Exhausted and elated, they set …
Lessons Learned
We've been home for almost a week now, and I've had some time to reflect. We travel well and had a great time. We also learned some things and thought about options not taken. Hands down our best purchase were walking sticks. My old hips did not hurt one bit. I thought my arms would …
Doing It On The Road 