Category: excursions
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I'm back! What a journey (!), and it's really just begining… The huge suitcases (2) met the wieght limit (70 lbs each) by just a hair–after I removed a few things at the counter into an impromptu carry-on. Ruby was boxed and loaded, tagged and transfered, customs checked, off-loaded and re-loaded, lugged and finally, let…
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Mom and Bert are back from their journey through Spain—I got the call before they arrived: "Have dinner ready!" Spanish food didn't agree with them. The Palmer Johnson boat didn't work out, but on their last day in Barcelona a strong contender for the bigger-boat contest was discovered. A 40ft Island Packet, designed with the…
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Update from Mom and Bert, somewhere in Spain: The visit to see Pilgrim (I almost said the pilgrimage, but that's just unforgiveable) was not successful. They did manage to find it, to see it, but it didn't come up to expectations–as Mom said in our short phone conversation 'Nothing worked on it." Good call to…
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Mom and Bert are driving down through southern France and most of Spain to Gibraltar (a rock the inhabitants share with mean monkeys), determined to see the Pilgrim, a 48ft re-fitted aluminum cruiser originally built for racing by Palmer Johnson in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin back in '71. Bert swears he saw it being launched back…
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Voila! Here's Mike and Matt's complete online photo album of their visit to Paris and Antibes—some great shots, those boys are so damn cute. Has it been nearly a week since they left already? Miss 'em so.
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Seeing Mike and Matt off on the train this morning.
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taking a tour of the harbor on Tishie Mae (that counts as 'sailing', right?), doing time in the cattle car, taking in the view, tripping down pictureseque lanes and having a hellava good time!
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I didn't think it was humanly, nor, mathematically possible for Mom and I to spend more time together. But, this past week in Italy, we did. And no one is dead. I've gained a post-skirmish-guilt handbag (the best kind), but no one is dead. Success! Bert had to take the boat out into the harbor…
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A quick trip over the border: Based in the lively working city of La Spezia, on the large Golfo dei Poeti, we spent an afternoon in the nearby fishing village of La Grazie, another day in beautiful and popular Porto Venere, a long day enjoying the charms of Cinque Terre from land and sea (by…
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Savannah, 1999/ New York City, 2002……coming soon to this space, "Antibes, 2004"…. Mike is coming! Mike is coming! I'm so thrilled— gorgeous, funny, lovely-in-everyway Mike is coming for a visit in mid-August–just in the nick of time while I'm still here! I better catch up on my sleep…Mike likes to have a good time. (and…
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