Category: Travel

Family, Freebies & Fun in Las Vegas: What We Learned on Our Quick Trip

Buffy and I just got back from a short trip to Las Vegas after spending a few days visiting family. The main reason for the visit? Our youngest granddaughter’s 10th birthday! Between school, work, and shared custody schedules, it wasn’t easy to coordinate, but we were grateful for the chance to celebrate with her and enjoy some quality time.

Along the way, we picked up a few new travel tips—and had a lot of fun (and food!) in the process. Continue reading Family, Freebies & Fun in Las Vegas: What We Learned on Our Quick Trip

A Life of Adventure and Travel

A couple of weeks ago Ilene and I were talking with a travel advisor and got on the subject of our travels. This is a nutshell of what we talked about.

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We met in Hawaii while we were both on vacation there 46 years ago. We spent the first couple years before our oldest was born, traveling by car, from Chicago to North Carolina to Washington and back.

After leaving the US Army we drove to Washington and worked there for a year before heading to Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and then back up to Tacoma, Washington where we lived for several years before driving to Arizona in our new Volkswagen campervan with two sons. Betsy, our van, was dropped off in Philidelphia and shipped across the Atlantic to England where we were stationed for the next 5 years. Continue reading A Life of Adventure and Travel