Tag: travel
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Striving (or what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger)
We’ve had a pretty crazy couple of weeks full of travel, a combination of work and lots of running. But since work is, well, work let’s gloss over that part and get right to the fun stuff. Let the catching up begin! First up, there was Chuck’s annual El Prieto Handicap race on May 19…
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One foot in front of the other
Here it is, day three of Katie’s Semi-Grand Tour. Today we took on the Louvre (ooh, ahh!) and the Galeries Lafayette and Montmarte, Sacre Coeur and the red light district (should one capitalize “red light district?” one thinks not). It was a lot of ground to cover, but by gum we did it! And we…
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Nous sommes arrivee! And our luggage is here, too!
After our whirlwind weekend in Pittsburgh, then one busy day working it was on the road again – well, really in the skies again. We flew to Paris yesterday (was it really only yesterday?) and hit the ground running (in a sleepy completely jet-lagged sort of way), trying to stay awake as long as possible…
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Tripping down memory lane
I have been threatening to do this for a while, but have finally gotten around to it, so prepare yourselves for a bit of a tale. Many years ago – shockingly, it’s been 30 years! (where does the time go?!) – I treated myself to a trip to Europe as my college graduation present. I…
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Travelling fools
Chuck and I are spending a week and a half on the east coast, visiting family and friends. We flew out rfom Long Beach on Jet Blue and landed at Dulles. The plan (okay, the plan I suggested) was to take the Metro from Dulles to downtown Washington. I know, you”re thinking “What Metro from…
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Cautionary tale re: international data roaming
When we went on our volcanically extended trip to Europe last month, both Chuck and I signed up for international data roaming with at&t so we could use our iPhones (and boy, did we use them!). We also signed up for the service that reduced the per minute phone charges to 99 cents. We actually…
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