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 …
Tag: Travel
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 …
A whole raft of thoughts
While Sue is heads-down planning her trip to London, I have turned my eye to the whitewater rafting portion of our trip to the Southwest. Who knew that doing an overnight whitewater rafting trip would require a 13-page preparatory document? I've seen articles in Scientific American less detailed than this. The only thing that seems …
Homeward Bound
Our last day on the islands (so sad). We had a 1pm flight from Honolulu to LA then a 2 hour layover and onward to Chicago. We arrived at 6am on Saturday. All in the elapsed travel time - including airport time and taxi home was about 15 hours; a pretty long day. The flights …
The Booking Elves
Well, the booking elves have been busy (read Sue, as she is our official booker). (I found this out accidentally, when Steven said, "Did you book that? You're the booker.") We broke down the trip by day and then started to work through our list of possible adventures. Some of them we don’t need to …
Hawaii, Oh boy :(
A free trip to Hawaii. Wow, right? I don't know; I just wasn't feeling it. It's the middle of the school year. It's a long flight to just sit on the beach. I don't need any more skin cancer. It will probably be the first nice weather week in Chicago. I had all kinds of …
Aloha
Just a few ideas Steven has for our Hawaii trip.
Doing It On The Road 