Category: vacation
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End of the journey
Days 6-9 Where We Wrap Up the Journey and get to Channel Moby Dick: We spent Day 6 in Juneau where we were driven out to the Mendenhall Glacier and got to hike around the trail there. The glacier is amazing, of course, but more amazing is how fast it is retreating. Climate change, whether…
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Further North
The journey continues… Days 3-5, Where We Encounter a Lot of Totem Poles, Glaciers, a Squirrel, Sea Lions, and the Tails of Some Whales: On Day 3 we visited Kasaan in the morning and met the Haida (a corporation, not a reservation – they made a fortune in 1971 with the passage of the Alaska Native…
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The long way home
When last I left our intrepid group (you know, us), we were in Chicago staying at the very-expensive-but-otherwise-just-okay W Chicago Lakeshore. We picked Maggie up from Tucker Pups, said our farewells to family, wished poor Kenny healing thoughts. Quick aside: Chuck’s brother-in-law dropped a razor on the top of his foot a few days before…
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Letting the good times roll
Earlier this month (June) Chuck and I took a just-for-the-heck-of-it trip to New Orleans, a city he had never visited. I say just for the heck of it, but actually it was because we had a companion pass on Delta that we needed to use by a certain date and were running out of time,…
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26 miles across the sea
A few weekends ago Chuck and I headed over to Catalina Island to attend the annual Silent Film Benefit. We actually went over because we won a free night at the Hermosa Hotel in Avalon when we were at the 2017 Scuba Show so we decided to take advantage of the free night and have a fun getaway in…
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Two weeks in Europe, Part 2
At the end of part one, I mentioned that we had to change our plans. We basically ran out of time – in our planning we had underestimated the time it was going to take to get from Point A to Point B, C, etc. Originally we had hoped to see Switzerland and Austria and…
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