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South East Spring Swing, Corpus Christi #2
March 16-18 Knowing that we would need to get an early start the next day for the long drive to New Orleans (made longer due to the closure of the I-10), we slept in and dawdled Friday morning. Once we got ready to move out we bandied about several options and decided to make it […]
South East Spring Swing, Corpus Christi #1
March 16-18 Up early as planned, we grabbed a quick breakfast at the Best Western and were on the road right around our planned departure time of 7:00 am. We drove west to Lafayette where we turned off onto the I-49 towards Alexandria to start the detour caused by the closure of the I-10 at […]
South East Spring Swing, Baton Rouge
March 12-13 The drive on Monday to Baton Rouge went smoothly, again just a shade over six hours of drive time. We passed through familiar territory, particularly stretches of the I-10 having come this way a couple of times in our travels last year. This is bayou country, with long sections of roadway built on […]
South East Spring Swing, Birmingham
March 12-13 Our plan for the next three plus weeks is to spend a week getting to New Orleans, a week there, and then ten days or so working our way home. First stop of the trip was a repeat of last year, two nights with our good friend Carolyn in Birmingham, Alabama. This is […]
When the Weather is Cold, Three Hikes in Three Days
The first two months of the year have been quiet for us with little travel planned. This wasn’t exactly deliberate but it just played out that way, a nice run of domesticity and routine leading up to what will be three months of pretty active travel. First up will be a three week plus […]
We Thought You Retired, Part Two
And so after our travels of October, I returned to Charlotte with a couple of months to go until our next outing to the West Coast for the holidays. Work would continue on campus coordinating both the ridership survey and the GIS mapping project. The survey launched the morning of November 6th, with an […]
We Thought You Retired
When I left UNC Charlotte in May of 2014 I wasn’t sure how the retirement thing would play out, certain at the time that we would be traveling as much as we could, the six-month trip to Europe that year the kickoff to many more adventures. And for the first year or more, it […]
The Legend of Los Cisco’s
The Start of it All Much has been written in this Blog about the unique group of characters that have come to be called Los Ciscos. Who they are and how we came to be friends covers a lot of ground. And it all started in the late 1950’s when on a field trip […]
West Coast Fall 2015, Part Seven
10/22-11/2 With a relatively short drive back to Oakland that Thursday and a bit of time on our hands with Jessica and Kris at work all day, we elected to visit Tuolumne Grove, one of Yosemite’s three Sequoia groves (the other two are Mariposa and Crane Flat), just past the Tioga Road turnoff. Not […]
West Coast Fall 2015, Part Six
10/22-11/2 We left the Visitor Center and walked back over to the food shops at the Village, picking up some coffee and soup to go along with the sandwich’s we had made back at camp. It was pleasantly chilly, to sit outside and enjoy the clear air and pleasant surroundings. Once finished we walked a […]
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