Category: travel
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Fireside Dining
This meal deserves a post of its own. Our Christmas present from Lauren and CJ was dinner at Fireside Dining at Deer Valley last Friday night. I don’t know what was more impressive. The ambiance or the meal itself. I do know the best part was the company (and that’s saying an awful lot ‘cuz the food…
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Drama With Delta
Delta is my favorite airline to fly. Generally flying with them is seamless and pleasant, in my experience. But recently we had a glitch. Note: That featured image is from a flight a couple of years ago. This is our weather today: Here’s the story: Today Chris and I are headed out to Utah to see…
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Another Son Heads to Utah
Aaaaah, the call of the mountains. CJ and Lauren raved about life out west so much that Zeb decided to give it a try. On Wednesday he headed out to work at Deer Valley (where CJ is a ski instructor, and Lauren works with housing). I’m proud of his willingness to venture away from the…
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Meeting/Greeting Settling and Planning
It’s so beautiful here in Canada! We had a two-ish-hour bus ride from the airport to Whistler, and I was desperate for sleep (had already been traveling for 11 hrs), but I couldn’t allow myself to nap. The scenery was breath-taking. And the bus driver kept us well-entertained with a history of the area and…
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Packing and GM Prep
Pride isn’t a super attractive trait. That said, I’m pretty proud of my latest packing feat. It’s always my goal to pack light–usually packing for a week in a single backpack. I went a bit over that this time, but not much. These were the factors I had to incorporate: Travel for a week in…
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Turtles, Flowers, Sand Owls and Friends
Jen wanted to learn more about animals and the trails that they leave. I had to admit, I was curious as well. So on our last full day on Marco Island, Mary Beth took us on a local nature tour. In the pics below she showed us some turtle nests, turtle footprints, and how to…
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Smooth Sails on Sunday
A week-and-a-half late on this one, but better late than never. My favorite part is the end 🙂 It was very windy that Sunday, but we were determined to go fishing again since time was running out on our trip. So we hit the backwaters. It really wasn’t a very successful day for fishing…
