Category Trips
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Seven
June 3 – 14, 2021 The next day Joanna picked up her mom and drove her to Winston Salem to meet up with Joanna’s middle sister Debi. Faced with another free day, I’d contacted Dan, a former student union colleague, to meet for a beer or two in Durham. I’ve known Dan, and his wife […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Six
June 3 – 14, 2021 A short drive of an hour plus to Durham awaited us so we dawdled that last morning at Ann and Rendy’s before departing around noon. Knowing dinner would be later in the day, we stopped at a McDonald’s just off the I-40 for food to tide us over until then. […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Five
June 3 – 14, 2021 Our drive to Greensboro (Summerfield) to Ann and Rendy’s would only take about ninety minutes, so again we had no need to hurry that Tuesday morning. This gave us a chance to do a load of laundry (one advantage of staying in an Airbnb unit is often some form of […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Four
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Four June 3 – 14, 2021 I forgot to note in the previous post that we had one more random encounter that Sunday with folks we know, reinforcing what we like about Charlotte, in that during our stop at Optimist Hall, we encountered Judith and Eric who were hosting a […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Three
June 3 – 14, 2021 With another full day ahead of us, we lit out from the condo around 8am to stop for donuts and coffee at a Dunkin’ on Sugar Creek before arriving at George’s place at 9am. We’d spend the next hour with him, remembering times past, catching up on the present, the […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part Two
June 3 – 14, 2021 Heading out of the airport was like returning home; hard to believe that just 11 years in a place can make it seem like somewhere you spent most of your life. This trip for us would be different than the many we usually we take, in that we’d be doing […]
North Carolina Spring 2021, Part One
June 3 – 14, 2021 Ten days after our return from Henderson we climbed aboard an American Airlines flight to Charlotte for another 11-day trip. Our first time on a plane since March of 2020 (when we cut a trip short to return home due to the pandemic), we were curious to see how Covid […]
Fall Western States, Part Five
November 2 – 13, 20 After the Museum we dropped off Dillon at his and McKenzie’s apartment, a nice two bedroom in a cool area of downtown and returned to the Airbnb to rest up before heading out again to meet them at our choice for dinner that night, Brewery Emperial. Seated outside underneath a […]
Fall Western States, Part Four
November 2 – 13, 20 With a seven hour drive ahead of us, not terribly long but would take most of the day, we left around 9am for Liberal, Kansas. For most of the drive, our route would traverse a path we’ve covered a number of times in the past while visiting Beverly and Dillon […]
Fall Western States, Part Three
November 2 – 13, 20 Lunch ended with a minor mishap, which was that a glob of secret sauce and fish oil leaked from the sandwich, strategically missing the towel I had spread in my lap (we put together a kit for the car with two sets of silverware, lap towels and wash clothes to […]
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