Tag: travel
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East with the night
I’m paraphrasing the title of a great book (well, I thinker’s great, anyway) West with the Night, a memoir by Beryl Markham of her life in East Africa. Yes, at last our big adventure begins! We leave for Paris today, where we will layover for two days before making the last push to Nairobi. We…
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On the road to find out
We just returned from a Thanksgiving trip to the East Coast. We spent the holiday with family in Washington DC and the week preceding it on the Eastern Shore of Maryland – one of our top contenders for retirement. It combines access to water (the Chesapeake Bay) and relatively easy access to big cities (Baltimore…
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Where does the time go?
How did it get to be November already?!? Seems like just yesterday we were getting back from North Carolina and I was feeling pretty good about keeping up with the blog. Oh well, so much for my good intentions. We’re getting down to the wire with preparations for our African safari in January. All vaccinations…
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Into the great semi-unknown
After getting caught up on sleep after our marathon journey to North Carolina, we spent our first full day in NC at the Biltmore Estate – George Vanderbilt’s beautiful ginormous mansion (“America’s largest home”). We took a house tour and signed up for a Legacy of the Land tour of the estate which gave us…
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The quest begins
After much talk we have finally begun our official exploration into places where we might retire. Okay, that sentence really does a good job of illustrating how indecisive I am. But hey, baby steps! We decided to start with North Carolina, a place we have heard mentioned in lots of articles as a nice state…
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Life does indeed go on, kinda painfully
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted so here’s a quick update: the rental is all fixed up and restored to its former glory good condition! It took us about two months to get everything fixed once the tenant was well and truly gone (junk hauled away, cleaning, bathrooms redone, general repairs) then we…
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