Ah...the joy of Excel In the world before the pandemic, Sue had booked a trip to Italy with her niece as a high school graduation gift. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 virus caused her to cancel the trip and her niece is not available for a trip this summer. We have about $3,000 of flight credits that …
Tag: Travel
I Love My Dog, But…
Who doesn't love their dog? Rosie has been part of the family for 9 of her 10 years. She's a little (little is not a word we should be using with Rosie - in any context) crazy in a German shepherd way, but she's loyal and she gets me out of the house even when it …
LA LA Time
I spent a long weekend in LA, visiting my most favorite of daughters, Abi. To be clear, she is my only daughter, so there isn't much competition, but still, I want her to know that she is my favorite of the female children. 😉 I arrived Friday around lunch time and Abi & I quickly …
Life’s Travel Sonnet #1
Anticipating, planning, and dreaming Traveling expands past where you’re going The unknown rushing toward you, gleaming I’m not really here, that mindset flowing Constantly through my soul like white water Propelling me down the river of life Thinking always of places much hotter Where sunshine cuts my mind’s haze like a knife Or mountains where …
Why I Go Anywhere
As I sit here with my winter break waning, I turn my thoughts to hiking in Costa Rica. I can't complain about the weather here (it was above 50 degrees today!) but it won't last and I need to have an out in my head for when it temperature drops like a stone. I'm …
Going Solo
....around the world in a rowboat. Ok, maybe not that far, but I am taking a solo weekend trip (I am so sad --as far as Steven knows) to Pittsburgh in a couple of weeks. It is part of the baseball stadium tour that I am doing with my son and we're meeting there for …
More Oddities from Our Trip Out West
America is the land of mass marketing. We are all used to the plethora of junk emails, the fact that the only thing we get in the mail are bills and marketing materials, the huge billboards on the side of the highways and cutesy, if somewhat odd, (deranged?), names that businesses use. I sometimes wonder …
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 …
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 …
Doing It On The Road 