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Continued from: SibSab 2026 – More Pittsburgh Activities PREFACE: October 31st marked my ninth anniversary since retiring from full-time work. In my eighth anniversary update last year, I mentioned that … Continue Reading SibSab 2026 – More Trouble
Continued from: SibSab 2026 – A Rocky Start in Pittsburgh On Saturday morning, we first went to the National Aviary. We arrived just in time to catch a showing of … Continue Reading SibSab 2026 – More Pittsburgh Activities
For quite some time now, I have been wanting to visit Fallingwater, undoubtedly one of Frank Llyod Wright’s most famous homes. I have wanted to go see it so badly … Continue Reading SibSab 2026 – A Rocky Start in Pittsburgh
Continued from: An Anniversary Trip – Just Getting Started One of my favorite images of San Francisco is the Golden Gate Bridge. In 2004, not long after our daughter had … Continue Reading An Anniversary Trip – Great for Everyone!
My wife and I had an anniversary trip in May. But this time, it was not to celebrate one of our milestones but rather for our son and daughter-in-law to … Continue Reading An Anniversary Trip – Just Getting Started
Prior to our daughter and her family moving to Seattle, my wife and I had been to Seattle only two previous times. However, since then, either one or both of … Continue Reading Seattle – Another Different Kind of Trip
The next morning after enjoying coffee on our balcony, we took an app ride-hailing service to see Vizcaya. A National Historic Landmark, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is a 1916 waterfront estate home with 32 … Continue Reading Our 2025 Anniversary Trip – Day 2 & Departure
For our last two anniversary trips, travelling in October or November provided us with a very nice but on the cold side adventure. This year, I suggested to my wife … Continue Reading Our 2025 Anniversary Trip – Arrival & Day 1
Continued from: Travel 2025 – Spring/Summer Time With the beginning of fall, my travel schedule got particularly busy with three almost back-to-back trips. On the second weekend in October, I … Continue Reading Travel 2025 – Fall/Winter
Continued from: Travel 2025 – Early Start While we started out our travel year early in January, it was not until the second week of April three months later that … Continue Reading Travel 2025 – Spring/Summer Time
I have written multiple times before that I try to avoid travel in January due to the potential for inclement weather impacting our travel plans. But that changed when we … Continue Reading Travel 2025 – Early Start
If you read my post last year about our SibSab (Sibling Sabbatical), you know that just weeks before our scheduled trip to Montreat, the remnants of Hurricane Helene devastated western … Continue Reading SibSab – 2025
A while back, my oldest son suggested that he, his brother and I have an all-boys weekend traveling to a city none of us had been to before. With both … Continue Reading Boys Weekend
Our next stop was the Tennessee State Museum. Many years ago, we had taken our kids to the museum when we travelled to Nashville for a swim meet. But when … Continue Reading ♫ Music City Get Together ♫ – Last Stanza
Last year, we met our daughter and her family in St. Louis for a 3-generation get together. And with her in-laws living close by, we even got to see them … Continue Reading ♫ Music City Get Together ♫ – First Stanza
Over the 4th of July holiday weekend, we took another one of those three generation vacations together with our son and his two children. While my wife and I are … Continue Reading Fourth of July – Gulf Coast
