Category: vacation
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The road goes ever on
So the last day of our vacation in Oregon was spent visiting the Whitman Mission and a winery in Walla Walla. The Wihitman Mission was built originally in thee 1830’s by Stuart and Narcissa Whitman, Presbyterian missionaries come West to convert the heathens (the native Cayuse). The mission eventually became a waypoint on the Oregon…
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Running on empty
Ah, home. We finally got back about 10:30 yesterday morning, after missing our connecting flight in Portland. We were flying Horizon Air from Pendleton to Portland, then Alaska Air from Portland to LAX. We were mightily impressed with the friendliness and helpfulness of all concerned – they put us up in Portland and gave us…
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How the west was won (in a manner of speaking, anyway)
We have been quite busy for the past week flying up the coast of California into Oregon. My sister and brother-in-law (who is a small plane pilot) flew in a Cessna 182 from their home in Pittsburgh, PA out to Long Beach. we joined them there for the next leg of their trip around the…
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Doing the Charleston Rag
In my continuing series, “What We Did on Our Trip to the East Coast,” we next will explore our trip to Charleston, South Carolina. This is also a Money Pit entry, as one of the big reasons we went there was to get ideas for our backyard. The O’Shea swamp has at last dried up,…
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Bright lights, big city
When last I wrote, we were heading off to Atlantic City. it was a kick driving there because we kept passing places and streets that appear in Monopoly: Ventnor (which is actually a town, not a street), North Carolina Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and of course, the Boardwalk. The boardwalk in Atlantic City has a very…
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Apparently you CAN go home again
Last Friday as our trip was winding down, we found ourselves with an unplanned bonus day. We ended up getting to Baltimore a day early, and as nothing else was happening, we decided to drive out to Atlantic City, NJ and see where Chuck was born and lived when he was little. We started out…
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