Tag: travel

  • 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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  • Starting to plan for a very big trip!

    In my opinion, the second best thing to actually going on a trip is to plan for a trip. And we are starting to plan for a really big trip – an African safari. Okay, I could say a tour of Africa but saying you’re going on an African safari is SO MUCH MORE exciting,

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  • Countdown begins

    We are t minus 7 days from the start of our Rick Steves trip to Eastern Europe. Yes, we’re going on an organized tour. We had talked to my sister and brother-in-law for a while about going to Eastern Europe but I had been a little off put by the complications – language issues, getting

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  • The long way home

    When last I left our intrepid group (you know, us), we were in Chicago staying at the very-expensive-but-otherwise-just-okay W Chicago Lakeshore. We picked Maggie up from Tucker Pups, said our farewells to family, wished poor Kenny healing thoughts. Quick aside: Chuck’s brother-in-law dropped a razor on the top of his foot a few days before

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  • Letting the good times roll

    Earlier this month (June) Chuck and I took a just-for-the-heck-of-it trip to New Orleans, a city he had never visited. I say just for the heck of it, but actually it was because we had a companion pass on Delta that we needed to use by a certain date and were running out of time,

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  • Two weeks in Europe, Part 2

    At the end of part one, I mentioned that we had to change our plans. We basically ran out of time – in our planning we had underestimated the time it was going to take to get from Point A to Point B, C, etc. Originally we had hoped to see Switzerland and Austria and

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