Allie, Barb and I took a summer roadtrip to upstate New York, making stops at Hyde Park, the Mohonk Mountain Inn, Cooperstown, and Niagara Falls. Sunday, August 24 We drove from our home on Paddington Court to Poughkeepsie, going via Harrisburg and Pennsylvania to avoid I-95 and New Jersey. We found our hotel (nothing special, …
One of Allie’s buddies in Brownies was a girl named Anna Marie. Barb got to be friendly with her Mom and learned they were going to be heading to Denmark for a year where her husband was to teach an exchange program at a university. The friend, whose name we can’t remember, made the mistake …
I’m not quite sure how or when we decided that taking a cruise to Alaska with Allie as a 5-year old was at the top of our wish list. I suspect it’s because someone from Barb’s work had done a similar trip and recommended it (see the page of notes…from who?). I viewed it as …
With the coronavirus breaking records around the country but not in Maryland, we went ahead with a planned minibreak with Allie. She came down for the week in July, the first we had seen her since returning from Aruba in March, just before the lockdowns started. Allie worked from our home instead of hers for …
In (I’m guessing) June of 2003, the Embrey family embarked on a road trip north to Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks, followed by a leg into Alberta, Canada visiting Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper. Betsy sent photos but didn’t annotate so I’m making educated guesses on locations and sequence. Maybe they can fill in the …
Barb went with Leslie in 2003 to pick up Leslie’s newly adopted daughter, Emery. In September 2003, Barb headed off to China to help Leslie with her new adopted daughter, Emery. Leslie wanted Barb’s help navigating in China and helping with the new baby, and Barb was happy to assist. The two of them went …
Allie’s first visit to Disney World. We did it up right with a six night package, February 6-12, visiting all the (then-extant) parks. We felt it appropriate that Allie’s first big trip, now that she was a full four-and-a-half years old, should be to Disney World. After all, we had spent her entire lifetime inundating …
Barb, Allie and I returned to Aruba for a few days of sun. We made the arrangements months ahead, but happened to travel just as the corona virus pandemic started to really impact Europe and the US. It didn’t change our trip very much, but raised the level of anxiety and made it hard for …
A record of our preparations for the music festival and vacation originally scheduled for November 2020 in Punta Cana. Getting Started For a number of years, I toyed with the idea of going on the Cayamo Cruise which annually gathered a bunch of my favorite musicians for a week in the Caribbean. The cruise was …
Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. This effort is aided and abetted by reviewing Wikipedia’s listings of each year’s events, in this case, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974. 1971 We arrived in Hong Kong on August 15, 1971 with Typhoon Rose. It took us a while to come to terms with Hong …