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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We've settled in nicely here in DC. In an attempt to be useful and more a part of the community, I had volunteered to teach English to immigrant adults at the Washington English Center. I got lucky because I was teaching intermediate English, so we could have real conversations. If you have time and especially …
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, …
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 …
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