Thanksgiving was at my folks’ house in Clearwater, Florida this year. It was exhausting, but good. It almost seems like we’re getting comfortable spending time as a family, something I wouldn’t have guessed possible just a couple of years ago. Except for the pre-race photo, all of these pictures are from my new camera (and [...]
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Thanksgiving in Photos
Posted in family, Travel on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pocono Vacation
Posted in Emelia, Travel on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The folks had a time share that they sold a couple of years ago. In June they announced to my siblings and me that they had one exchange week left that had to be used by mid-November. When no one else could use it, we grabbed it for a week of Fall Foliage in the [...]
A Weekend in Maine
Posted in Emelia, Travel on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When we booked our flight to Maine several months ago, Kathy and I decided to add an extra couple of days at the end of the trip to do additional exploring. By Friday, with the lack of sleep and the extra effort of watching Suz’s three kids, Kathy was ready to skip the extra days [...]
A Week in Maine
Posted in family, Travel on July 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Several years ago, my Mom decided that she wanted to spend her inheritance on family vacations, and the decision on where to hold the annual vacation is rotated among the folks and their four children. In year one, my folks selected Crescent Beach, Florida, near where we grew up. For the second year, my brother [...]
A Choice
Posted in Travel on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Say your flight out of Portland, Maine is already late, you’ve been at the airport for over three hours, and you’ve got a overtired 8.5 month old and an airport with almost no place to let her run around. The airline informs you that the delay was due to an engine problem, and because the [...]
On the Road
Posted in Emelia, family, Travel on November 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In a couple of hours, we begin our journey to Dallas for Thanksgiving at my brother’s. Kathy has been instructed not to lift more than 10 pounds for another couple of weeks. She’ll be carrying Emelia, who at yesterday’s 2-week doctor’s appointment weighed in at 8lbs, 14oz. This leaves a pound and change of Kathy’s [...]
When are we going back?
Posted in beer, Kathy, memories, Travel on October 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In a time before we knew of RateBeer and before there was mapquest, there was Coop’s, a set of maps that purported to include the addresses of all the breweries in a particular region. And when we embarked on a two-week Northern California brewery tour in the Fall of 2000, there certainly were more than [...]
Things I Learned This Week
Posted in Travel on August 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
1. Kathy and I went to Cornell Adult University this past week, where we went non-stop between our classes and the various activities when class was out of session. We had a fantastic time, and fully intend to go back in the future (not likely in the next couple of years, as its children’s program [...]
Myrtle Beach Family Vacation
Posted in family, Travel on July 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps most pictures are worth 1000 words, but vacation photos are lazy — you can caption them in less than 20, usually much less, but the 980+ missing words tell the real story of the vacation. Especially when it’s a family vacation. The Beach House Me with Kathy at 25 weeks My sister Shari with [...]
Yellowstone Revisited
Posted in Nature, Travel on June 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In 1989 during our cross-country road trip, Pete and I visited Yellowstone. There were two distinct reasons why that experience was less than ideal. First, record wildfires had hitYellowstone the year before, and blackened forests were everywhere. Second, we had no clue what we were supposed to check out — we saw Old Faithful, saw [...]
