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Back Home for Christmas and on to Alabama

We decided to fly home for Christmas rather than drive, a decision we may do differently in the future.  It was a bad Christmas for snow in Michigan, but we did get some snow the day after Christmas.  Regardless we … Continue reading

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A Vagabond’s Thanksgiving and Christmas

Thanksgiving found us in southern Alabama.  Darcy Toth and her husband Roger spend the winter in Orange Beach, AL and invited us to join them for Thanksgiving.  We stayed at the Gulf State Park.  This is a great park with … Continue reading

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Visiting the Grandkids

We’ve been in Mississippi for a little over a week now and we’re enjoying the warm weather. To us, it seems more like early September than November.  We spent the first week at the Ross Barnett Reservoir campground where we … Continue reading

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Visiting Elisabeth in Raleigh

While family and friends are bundled up at Spartan Stadium at MSU for the MSU-Wisconsin game, I was standing barefoot in the sand grilling burgers, only a few hundred feet from the beach at Kitty Hawk, NC – what a … Continue reading

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Gettysburg, PA and Fredericksburg, VA

Gettysburg is known as the Turning Point in the Civil War, the time when the Army of the Potomac came to the realization that Robert E. Lee could be defeated.  What an opportunity to walk the ground and stand in … Continue reading

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Bar Harbor & Acadia National Park

Our stay in Acadia National Park has been great!  The hiking is like nothing I have done back in Michigan.  Pat and I hiked around South Bubble Mountain, and along the coast near Sand Beach as we described in earlier … Continue reading

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Bar Harbor, ME (Sand Beach)

It’s Sunday (9/25) and Pat and I decided to hike the area bear Sand Beach, which is the only sandy beach in Acadia National Park.  It was a beautiful day and a great hike.  We’ll just let the pictures tell … Continue reading

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Bar Harbor, ME

Our trip to Bar Harbor took a little longer than expected.  We were told the original L.L. Bean store was right on our route in Freeport, ME.  Bob decided that this was an opportunity that could not be passed up.  … Continue reading

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Boston Area (Hanscom AFB), MA

After having a whirl-wind weekend with Elisabeth in the Boston area, things really slowed down as she left for home on Sunday night and then I left for a business trip to Pittsburgh on Tuesday morning.  That left Pat at … Continue reading

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Boston Area, MA

We arrived at the Hanscom Air Force Base, near Bedford, MA, late Wednesday afternoon (August 31) with plenty of time to set up before dark. The park has two distinct sections—one with no shade, but 50 amp hook-ups for electricity … Continue reading

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