Four Years and Counting

It has now been exactly four years since we kicked off The Happy Idiots tour by traveling to catsit for Seuss in Paris. Wow, time flies when you are having fun. We have done so much, seen so many incredible places , learned a few (or maybe a lot) of lessons the hard way and …

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The best laid plans…have to start somewhere

Our plan for the next 6 months beginning in November is to head to Valencia by way of Copenhagen and Berlin with a three week safari in Kenya in February. As always, I have created my travel spreadsheet that keeps track of what we have/haven’t taken care of. Last Saturday this is how it looked: …

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Baseball Has Been Very Very Good to Me

Or: Planes, Trains and Automobiles We spent a long weekend in Boston and New York, visiting with friends and family and going to baseball games. Sue and I flew to Boston last Thursday and quickly settled into our hotel in Cambridge. Thursday night we had dinner with Sue’s college roommate, Terryl and Terryl’s husband, Rob. …

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Not the Most Enjoyable Trip

This weekend we moved from Chicago – our home for the last six weeks – to Washington – our home for the next four months. Sue and I usually love a good, long summer drive. Play suitcase tetras with our stuff to get everything in the less than spacious Saab trunk, slather on the sunscreen, …

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