Category Hillsboro

East Coast Fall 2024, KC and Ohio

September 14 – 19 2024 As mentioned earlier, our drive to Kansas City would take about ten hours but would be a bit easier with three drivers as Doug would be with us all the way back to his house in Ohio.  We arrived in the late afternoon, losing another hour due to a time […]

Cisco Fest 2022, Part Two

September 16 – 28 We left the farm and having seen all that liquid pumping through the collection mechanism, realized that we all needed a bit of our own wet refreshment to carry us through the afternoon.  This led to a stop at Beachwood, the kind of casual bar you can often find close to […]

Cisco Fest 2022, Part One

September 16 – 28 As mentioned in the last post, a few weeks after our return from Europe I had a total right knee replacement.  The surgery went well as did my recovery, which is long and somewhat arduous as one must be diligent about protecting the limb while it is healing as well as […]

A Visit with the Griz

February 7-10 Last fall we planned to take a three-week trip to South America, visiting Santiago and Patagonia in Chile and then joining a guided tour with Intrepid Travel in Lima, Peru that would take us to the Amazon and Machu Pichu.  But logistical complications arising from the Delta variant caused us to reconsider the […]