Category: travel & vacations

  • Turtle Power

    Sunday runday and on my solo five klick shakeout I paused beside path to watch a turtle the size of a football basking in Florida sunshine. Also, it was nearly fifty degrees celsius warmer than the last time I ran oudoors a little more than a week ago. I haven’t been that sweaty from running

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  • Travel-less

    What did you want this year … but not get? If all goes well my travel-happy soul will find some relief in the near future, but if you are like me the one thing you probably didn’t get last year was a ride on a plane. The last time I flew anywhere was a few

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  • Words on Sketching

    Learning by doing. It can work, but at some point a guy needs to look to some other sources for guidance and advice. Like, say… a book (or ten.) What was the best anything that you read in 2021? As much as I’ve taken to the internets this past year in an attempt to hone

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  • Travel Advisory

    It seems almost ironic that the day I set aside to sum up my year in travel, the government of my country leaked that they’ve decided to reinstitute yet another travel advisory sometime in the next day or so. Here we go again. Or, really, here we don’t go anywhere. What is travel anyhow? Getting

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  • Travel: Disney in the Time of COVID

    My wife has been waking up at three thirty in the morning lately. Deliberately. Her alarm goes off, she activates her phone, logs into the Disneyworld website, and queues up her virtual reservation system trying to get us a dinner seating at a reasonable time and place … for some time next year. I’m not

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