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If you have a long weekend coming up (Fourth of July, anyone?) and need some travel ideas….let me recommend heading to Chicago. The legendery “Taste of Chicago” has just commenced. It is several weeks of outdoor frivolity and fun, all centered around food. Can’t beat that! 65+ restaurants set up booths along the city streets […]

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Last week I wrote about my “pretend” trip to Orlando. This week I  forgot to do my little atlas game. So, I am going to write a short little entry about my new “love affair”. That is right–I am having a love affair with San Francisco!  I feel very lucky to be living near this […]

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In my post, “Travel from Sea to Shining Sea” from last week, I came up with the resolution to pick one U.S destination a week (by closing my eyes and pointing a finger at the atlas) and researching it as a vacation destination.
Well, this week I landed on the Sunshine State. My finger was close […]

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So, here is a scenario: You are tooling around online, reading about smart cars and searching for WV election results- instead of getting the sleep you need. It is getting close to midnight and all of a sudden–wham! It hits you. Tomorrow is your anniversary. Your angelic wife, who is sleeping in the next room […]

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One of these days I am going to be entirely spontaneous. I am going to open my atlas, point a finger, and book a ticket for wherever it lands. Unless, of course, it lands on Siberia–which is much too cold. Or, I suppose I wouldn’t go to Greenland–the airfare would be atrocious. And I am […]

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