travel

Ring Ring Ring Ring…Banana Phone!

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The song is stuck in my head now. Why? Because we brought this artificial banana with us on vacation and Dave has been charged with photographing it everywhere. Yes, like Flat Stanley. The pictures of this banana as it travels across America are being assembled in a photo album for one of Dave’s colleagues, who … Read more

Greetings from Lake Michigan

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We stopped with Andy, Suzy and their kids on the lakeshore for just over an hour. Between about 4-5pm, 8 hours into our drive. It was cool and breezy, but the water wasn’t bad and Timmy got pretty wet. The kids did lots of running around and I think the exercise did them some good.This … Read more

ROAD TRIP!

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Tomorrow morning we leave on vacation. “Whoo hoo! It’s about friggin’ time! You haven’t really had a real vacation in a couple years, have you?” No, I guess not. We had that fabulous trip to Fort Fisher/Kure Beach, NC back in July 2007. That was a really fun time, the most relaxed I’d ever been, … Read more

It’s Good to be Home!

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Greetings from Detroit! I’ve two legs down on this journey, three to go. The flights from Doha to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to Detroit were more or less without incident (save a broken shoe heel from an overambitious beverage cart that I didn’t notice till I had disembarked).I’m now getting ready to board my flight … Read more