Category: travel
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LA Trip D1 – hiking the Hollywood sign and the Hollywood Bowl
We flew in to LA the day before, August 7th, flying out of Orlando (flights were very cheap from Orlando). We spent the evening visiting with Scott, Shalynn, and their new baby boy, Anderson. We then picked up Steve later that night. So, the 8th was our first full day. And there we were, in…
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new links
I added a couple of new links in the sidebar. The first is to a list of the places we’ve visited using Google Maps. My paternal grandparents had a map with pins in it marking all of the places they visited over the years. I liked the idea and figured out take a 21st Century…
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Tampa trip
We’ve been back from Tampa/Nashville for almost two weeks now, but I’ve been swamped with other things and am just now getting to writing up a trip report. Here’s the rundown: March 14th drove to Tampa It’s a 14 to 16 hour drive. We drove straight through, listening to a few books on mp3 (see…
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sitting at the park in Nashville
I’m in Nashville with Debi, who is attending a professional conference. I have plenty to do to keep me busy, but I thought I’d read outside to enjoy the good weather rather than sit, cooped up, in our hotel room. I checked a local map and found a park by the river just a couple…
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Hello from Portland
I flew into Portland, OR last night for a conference (SSSR). I’ll be here until Sunday. Lack of foresight left me thinking the sessions started bright and early this morning… Not so. The sessions don’t start until around 1:00 pm, which left me with an entire morning in Portland to blow. After forking over an…
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trip to Utah
We’re back. I don’t, typically, announce on my blog when we are going out of town. Call me paranoid, but I don’t think announcing our absence is a good idea. It’s not like we have anything in our tiny condo that anyone would want, but you never know. I’ve posted a rundown of our trip…
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Utah trip – the 28th
The next day Debi and I wrapped up the few loose ends we had to take care of while in Utah and packed up for our early flight back to Cincinnati the next day. It was a pretty lazy day. I did, however, make some excellent zucchini bread and zuccanoes (I bought extra zucchini and…
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Utah trip – the 27th
We started up the mountain at 8:00 am. We thought we were the first ones on the mountain, but we found out later that there were at least four people who started before we did. We made pretty good progress during the first stage of the climb, which takes you from the trailhead up to…
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Utah trip – the 26th
Saturday morning we packed up and Debi dropped me off at Mark’s in-laws’ again where I was meeting up with Tom and Mark to go on our annual hike. We hung out waiting for Tom for a little bit then loaded up the car and headed out. We stopped for a quick lunch at a…
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Utah trip – the 25th
Friday was another relatively lazy day. I spent most of the morning helping my mom again with computer stuff then we went to Rooster’s in Ogden for lunch. We spent a little time in the afternoon working on the computer then some of my siblings came up for a game of Texas Hold’Em. Debi watched…