Category: travel
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Our June 2014 Visit to Hilton Head, Baseball Are Us – Part I
We have been trying to visit Ellen’s parents every three to four months. When we used to visit them when our kids were younger, we would generally drive. When the kids left the house, we tended to fly (to Savannah, where Ellen’s parents would pick us up). Now we have returned to driving there, however…
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We Are Cornhole
Ellen and I try to visit Ellen’s parents in Hilton Head on a regular basis. They are really wonderful people, I am lucky to know them, and they are fun to be with (and visiting Hilton Head even if one does not play golf is pretty good also). Lately we have switched back to driving…
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My First Facebook Video
In late 2011, Ellen and I were talking about what we might do for New Year’s, to be honest not my greatest time of year. I am not particularly a social person, or at least a party social person. Richard Cohen, a Washington Post columnist who used to write a humor column and now attempts…
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My Wild and Crazy Week
Once a year, Ellen goes to New York for a book festival for almost a week, like this last week typically leaving Sunday morning and returning Thursday evening. I will note in passing that when Ellen goes to New York, she takes the bus; when I go, I take the train. One wonders what conclusions…
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Today I Rode the Bus All By Myself
So yesterday among other things I proved (once again) that I know literally nothing about cars. As I was driving back from a customer meeting the alternator/battery light came on in my car. After a few moments I realized that steering had become more difficult, though possible. I called the place I take my car…
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I Once Was Young And Now …
On weekends I generally try and get things done that I do not get to during the week, both at work and in my on-line classes I teach. However, almost always I am able to avoid accomplishing too much by wandering over to youtube and getting side-tracked in watching video’s. While I am wasting time…
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Our Excellent Adventure in Florida with the Washington Nationals – Day 1
Yesterday, Thursday morning, we started our second annual Spring training visit to see the Nationals. We were up at 5:15am to get ready to drive to the airport to fly to Florida. Starting with a temperature in the 20’s in Rockville MD, we landed to a temperature in the 70’s in West Palm Beach. We…
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Astronaut Alvin Drew in China, Now at the Space Station
In 2009, our family went to China to see a solar eclipse. This was the second solar eclipse we had gone to, the first being in Turkey in 2006, but this time we also took our daughters, Miriam and Tamar with us. In Wuhan, where we watched the eclipse we were joined by an American…
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B&B Multiculturalism in Harpers Ferry
February 15th was my 30th anniversary, which I will likely comment on in a separate post. Ellen and I decided that we would do our 30th anniversary ‘stuff’ later this year. Not everyone would understand the following reference but this is not dissimilar to how many American Jewish families who don’t like the time of…
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Ellen & Dan’s Excellent Adventure in Nova Scotia – Day 7
We started our penultimate day on our Nova Scotia adventure by going to the Cows manufacturing plant where they make cheese, most recently butter, and most important what is considered by a number of sources the best ice cream in the world, www.cows.ca. We took the tour along with a number of other visitors, including…