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The Great American Roadtrip Day 5: Ride On! – King’s Dominion, Virginia – [07/16/2016]
I am a theme park junkie. Everyone who knows me is fully cognoscente of this fact. Amras’ has known this for years; we’ve been trying to line up timelines to get to a theme park together for ages now. But … Continue reading
The Great American Road Trip: Day 4 – “There’ll be Peace When we Are Done” – Interstate 64, Virginia/Cold Harbour Battlefield – [07/15/2016]
Goodbye Kentucky hello Virginia! After an earlier start than originally intended (which I will admit, did lead to me being a bit of a grumpy bear until I was able to take a nap), we left Kentucky behind and crossed … Continue reading
The Great American Road Trip: Day 3 – “My Wayward Son…” – Lexington, Kentucky – [07/15/2016]
Renting a car is an insanely complicated experience when no rental car place has any cars available for the first nearly forty-eight hours you are in town and the information from the first botched reservation is still in their system…this … Continue reading
The Great American Road Trip: Day 1 – “Carry On….”, Terre Haute, Indiana [07/12/2016]
Dedication is getting up at 4am to get on a plane…when one is not working (the ultimate example of this is my own family, who regularly drag themselves out of bed and away from work on a regular basis to … Continue reading
Icy Cool – Amsterdam – [07/02/2016]
There are few cities in the world that completely live up to everything you expect them to be; Amsterdam is absolutely one of those. Narrow twisting streets and vast wide canals and towering old buildings that seem to brush up … Continue reading
Blue Heaven – Reykjavik , Iceland – [06/24/2016]
Iceland’s particular brand of beauty may not be for everyone. Our first port of call looks much like any other city, and Freya is it ever expensive! The shuttle ride into town was 40euros, for the two of us! Without … Continue reading
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Transitory – Seattle Airport – [07/03/2016]
I will always think that if mankind were meant to fly, the Lady would have granted us wings. However, since that is not possible, and since walking from Amsterdam to home isn’t precisely an option, I once again boarded a … Continue reading
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Come Ye From the Hills – Invergordon, Scotland – [06-20-2016]
Sometimes you simply have no words, and you send up somewhere you never thought you’d be. Even me, who has seen so much. I’ve known of course that we were calling in Scotland for months now, it’s one of the … Continue reading
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Lessons – Rotterdam – [06/18/2016]
I have been living this life for long enough that I forget sometimes that other people haven’t. The chaos of embark/debark day is so familiar to me that I seldom really see it anymore, if someone extremely close to me … Continue reading
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Hideaway – Flam, Norway – [06/15/2016]
I took the tram ride today because I had not yet had a chance to see the church, or the ocal waterfalls, and it seemed a shame to leave ton without doing so. The trip out to the church does … Continue reading
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