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It’s a jungle out there!
Along with checking out fireworks yesterday, we also ran in the Palisades Will Rogers 5K & 10K in Pacific Palisades, CA. it’s a challenging course with a very nasty hill at about mile three that goes steadily up for about a mile. It sells itself as a neighborhood run, and encourages families (that means lots
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Happy birthday, USA!
Yesterday was the 4th of July and as we have been doing for the past few years, we went over to our friend Barbara’s house to BBQ and watch the Rose Bowl fireworks. It was the usual fun affair, with good food and drink and excellent fireworks. this year there were more kabooming fireworks than
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Random bit of TV wisdom
We were catching up with DVR’d episodes of Resuce Me last night, and Susan Sarandon uttered the following line about men: …”60% man, 30% boy, and 10% Neanderthal.” Chuck looked serious for a moment and said, “Yep, that sounds about right.”
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You’re free to move about the country, but nobody said it was going to be comfortable
When last we left our intrepid travelers, they were getting ready to board a Southwest flight from Philadelphia to LAX, and they were very excited because they were FIRST in the “A” group, all ready to assume our rightful seats in the emergency row. Sadly, this was not to be. There were 45 poor sods
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Lasting impressions of Philadelphia: it rains a lot and is really humid; beyond that I can’t say much
Because that’s pretty much what it did all three days we were there. It was raining when we arrived, it was raining while we toured around, and it…wait! It actually STOPPED today!! Yes, we actually were able to walk around without getting soaked. Well, that’s not completely true. Because once it stopped raining and the
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A quick one before I go…
We’re in Cape May, New Jersey, a little seaside town near the point where Delaware Bay joins the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a quaint place, full of Victorian houses and a boardwalk that has lots of places to buy ice cream or frozen custard and play skeeball (I love skeeball; I’m pretty bad but I still
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