Category: vacation
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Two weeks in Europe: Part 1
A certain someone turned 70 on March 8. That seemed like a pretty big deal, so to celebrate we took a trip to France and Germany, mostly seeing things we’d never seen before. We started the trip in Paris. Well, the adventure really started on the flight from LAX to Paris. We flew Air France…
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Catching Up, Part 1: Sightseeing in the Upper Peninsula, or not, as the case may be
This is the start of a series of catch-up blog posts. I fell off the wagon of writing, and had a hard time getting started again. Life sometimes just gobsmacks you, and you have to roll with it and have faith you’ll come out on the other side. So here I am on the other…
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The end of the journey
We’ve been home for a few days and are mostly caught up with ourselves. We jumped right back into work, so I for one am really glad it’s Friday and we have a quiet weekend doing nothing much. It’s sad how quickly vacations recede in our memories. The real world takes over so quickly and…
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Adventures in the rainforest
Half the fun, I suspect, of going to Sacha Lodge is getting there. We left Ilatoa Lodge in Tumbaco at 8:15am, arriving at Quito airport around 8:50am. A Sacha representative was waiting as they had said would be the case, and she took care of getting us boarding passes and our luggage checked. Kudos to…
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A really big adventure
We are at the start of one the most exciting trips I’ve taken. I think I have to go back to my trip to Nepal to trek in the Himalayas to find any sort of comparison. We’re off to the Galapagos Islands, and it’s all my sister’s fault. You see, today is her birthday, and…
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Ah, paradise!
Chuck and I just got back from spending 9 days (well, 7 days if you don’t count the travel days) in the Caribbean – the Dominican Republic, specifically. Punta Cana even more precisely. We were first timers in the Caribbean and also newbies at all-inlcusive resorts. After reading a boatload of reviews on Trip Advisor…
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