Category: travel
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So long and thanks for all the fish
We visited family over Thanksgiving on the East Coast and flew Southwest to get there. This was our last open seating flight. I had thoughts. Dear Southwest You were great for so long. I loved flying with you. It was so easy and offered phenomenal fares. You went above and beyond to help passengers get
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If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be Ireland
That’s an obscure reference to an old comedy, but it also describes our 16 day whirlwind tour of Ireland. We spent our first two days exploring Dublin on our own and recovering from jet lag (it was a long flight from LAX to London then London to Dublin and I can’t sleep on planes). We
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It’s a new year, so time for a new post
2025 has arrived like a shitstorm. LA seems to be burning up, and though the fires are far away from us, thank goodness, the emotional impact is still there. It’s like a collective holding of our breath waiting for the other shoe to drop as our world is on fire. But life, as always, goes
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Semi-annual semi-adventure update
It’s been a while since I did something other than grouse about my injuries here. I am still in physical therapy getting over all of the various secondary issues I created for myself by breaking my elbow. Next on the hit parade: at long last physical therapy for my back! Oh, and this blog and
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Ctrl-Alt-Esc (aka reboot time!)
Consider this the first post of a new blog. I’m still wrapping my head around the reality, but I retired! Okay, since I was a consultant a better way to phrase it might be that I didn’t renew my contract and we are still keeping the (virtual) lights on at our small business but for
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Traveling in a pandemic
I guess I could call this “traveling in a post-pandemic world” but that wouldn’t be accurate as the infection numbers are creeping up some, fueled by a contagious variant and unvaccinated folks. We felt pretty confident having been fully vaccinated and so decided to head to the east coast to see family this July. I
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