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Australian Adventure–By the Numbers

Day 20 and chugging along on our family adventure in Australia. There’s been so much to write about, but we’ve on the road for 17 of the last 20 days with faulty wireless access and power charging dilemmas, so apologies for the silence! I’ll try to catch up now that we are (somewhat) settled in […]

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Shark Week–New York, NY

Sharks are my biggest fear in life. Irrational? Probably. But ever since I saw JAWS, no swim in the ocean has ever been the same…which is a shame, because I grew up in New England, spent summers on the Cape, and love the ocean. Yet while in the water, I perpetually move my legs around […]

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The Week in Squares–Nantucket, MA

I just returned from a vacation to a place I hold dear…Nantucket.  It was foggy.  And then it was foggy some more.  Then it was so foggy that they canceled the Fourth of July fireworks. But fog can be romantic, right?  And they’ll always be fireworks next year.  We did eventually get two glorious days […]

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In Search of Spring

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.  ~Robert Orben Let’s be honest, New York City in mid-March is just plain ugly.  The snow has melted, it’s still cold, and the parks are filled with sticky mud and dead grass. The only highlight might be St. Paddy’s Day, when […]

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