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Back in the Saddle
Well, here I am resuming my blog (and my travels) after an almost ten-month hiatus. I didn’t mean for last year’s entries to end so abruptly, and I didn’t even realize how much I had left unwritten about the unexpected end of last year’s journey. I had an extremely stressful month between when I wrote…
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Waterfalls, Cannons, and Caves
I spent much of my Fourth of July exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio. Cuyahoga is one of those parks that blends in with the surrounding community, without gates or admission booths or fees. I passed through one part that looked like an ordinary municipal park, with people grilling out around picnic tables and…
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Oh, Hi, Ohio
When I left Prince Edward Island, I crossed back into Maine (a frustrating experience with GPS directing me into the dead-end of a closed border crossing…). Since then I’ve stayed in Maine, New Hampshire, Canada again (Quebec/ Ontario), and now Ohio, so it’s past time for me to catch up here. Back in Maine, I…
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Ingleside
Today I went and checked out some of the Lucy Maud Montgomery-related sites that aren’t right in Cavendish. Out of curiosity (and a hunger for a fast-food burger that doesn’t cost $20) I drove over to Summerside, scene of “Anne of Windy Poplars,” one of the few major place names she didn’t bother to disguise.…
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Green Gables
Before I skip to the fun stuff, I ought to mention that I’ve found one of the downsides of June in maritime Canada. The black flies are something fierce. There were clouds of them buzzing around my head in Fundy, and I tried to just ignore them, thinking of them as a nuisance like house…
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From Dixie to O Canada
Once again, I find myself several states/ provinces/ parks behind in blogging. This time I can plead technology failure. My primary cell phone (my most reliable internet access) suddenly and irrevocably died while I was trying get a photo in New River Gorge National Park, and two attempts to replace it have failed. (Long story.)…
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Catching Up – Two More Parks
Wow, I haven’t gotten around to blogging for 15 days. Sorry, y’all. I will plead the excuse that I’ve been consumed by writing a big federal grant for one of my clients (submitted Monday) which ate up all my writing energy. Beyond that, in the continuous time-juggling act between actually doing fun things, driving to…
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So Let’s See Some National Parks Already
I can hear y’all saying “it’s about time!” I set out on this trip to see national parks, but with the decision to spend time at Kennedy Space Center plus some of the logistical realities of campground scheduling (a topic for another post), I just got to the first two today — Everglades National Park…
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Sawgrass and Skyscrapers
I want to catch you up on my last week, but first a disclaimer. As I’ve been working on this blog, I’ve given some careful thought to what I share. Do I just share the positive, fun stuff? The great adventures? The great misadventures that make dramatic/ funny stories afterwards? How about the boring, frustrating…
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Well, I Gave It a Whirl…
I really did try to see a launch from KSC, but it wasn’t meant to be. I used the second half of my ticket to visit again on Thursday, and enjoyed sunny, hot daytime weather. I stayed cool by trying out some of the simulators in the exhibits, including a super-realistic shuttle launch simulation. The…
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