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Continuing on

As you can see – there aren’t many ports on this trip which means that there are a lot of sea days.   ITINERARY DAY DATE PORT ARRIVE   DEPART Fri Oct 9 Barcelona, Spain 5:00pm Sat Oct 10 At Sea … Continue reading

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Where did it go?

Yes, I know that I have been threatening to move websites, blogs and all the rest of it for several months now. It is happening. I haven’t yet been able to replicate everything from here over to the new site … Continue reading

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Vigo on a Sunday

Proved to be a lovely city for a walk. Without stores open, the streets weren’t crowded with shoppers. Instead, families were out strolling and tourists were able to gawk without appearing complete rubes. It was up the hill and off … Continue reading

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Sleep – beautiful sleep

I hit the wall today considering travel, time zones and disruption of anything even remotely resembling a normal sleep cycle. It is a good thing it was a sea day. Last night was mostly dozing on and off which means … Continue reading

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Another year

is now in the past. This birthday is different only in that it marks a turning point in those basic interactions with the government which most of us want to avoid. Part A & B of Medicare come to mind. … Continue reading

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Explorer of the Seas

Is the ship I am boarding starting tomorrow from Southampton. Between now and then – I have my plane to LHR, the NationalExpress Bus to Southampton and three rounds to go with Barclay’s bank. I also have to figure out what … Continue reading

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Oslo

Didn’t plan much of anything today. Instead the thought was walking around town with one or more of the people whom I know from past cruises. Plan didn’t go well. Where am I? Oh yes, taking pictures from my balcony. … Continue reading

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Heading across the Atlantic

Well, here I am – back on the Serenade of the Seas. and the schedule ITINERARY DAY DATE PORT ARRIVE   DEPART Sun Aug 30 Copenhagen, Denmark 4:30pm Mon Aug 31 Oslo, Norway 10:00am 7:00pm Tue Sep 1 Kristiansand, Norway 10:00am … Continue reading

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Kastrup

Which is not a food, article of clothing or disease but the name of the Copenhagen Airport.It was where I arrived late morning after running through the following: taking out the garbage hauling suitcases down to the garage hiking to … Continue reading

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It will be Sept

Did I mention that George and I are looking to relocate sometime in the not so distant future (next year? Year after?)? I realized as part of the move a requirement to shift from my German web host which I … Continue reading

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To the ends of the earth – or my garage

Driving to Wallhausen is fun, especially when I do it with someone else. We had a good time there and back. A stop at my house involved Nana and the kids books. And some old shirts for wearing, painting, crafting … Continue reading

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insanity or what?

It isn’t that there aren’t other things to do…. laundry (four loads), cleaning and that every so fun and necessary scrubbing out of the fridge. But I decided to go ahead and start setting up my blog et all on … Continue reading

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made it home

It took actually less than 36 hours in real time but it seems like a whole lot longer. Maybe it is because I left Spokane on Sunday and it is now Tues. And I really can’t ignore the 9 hours … Continue reading

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Journey home – day 2 – not the United Lounge

Picking up where we left off (somewhere around sound asleep) I woke to the nasty surprise that the particular Doubletree doesn’t have free coffee in the lobby early in the morning. Yes, they have the stupid little coffee makes in … Continue reading

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heading home – day 1

Which should give you the basic idea that it is not as simple as it sounds. Today is the last day of WorldCon. Noah and I helped set up Registration this morning. It was quickly obvious that we had more … Continue reading

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Interesting Hugos

I have mentioned before that the Hugo’s were going to be interesting this year. (the final list is here)A controversy exploded fueled by a couple of groups who felt that the Hugo’s were being nominated and rammed through the system … Continue reading

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Discworld

For those of you who don’t know anything about science fiction – Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of the Discworld series, died in March of this year. Not old at all he was 66. Pratchett had early onset Alzheimers. He … Continue reading

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Registration

This morning wasn’t as insane as yesterday. We had the line cleared out by about 1100 which meant breaks were possible. I did some wandering around. No shopping and and a lot of people watching. It was also the main … Continue reading

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Smoke gets in your eyes

We are not all that far from the wildfires. I think most of us could give up the spectacular sunrises and sunsets in favor of thousands less burning acres of land and forest. As this is the opening day of … Continue reading

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