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Ramadan in Cairo
After 8 hours to Rome and another 4 to Cairo, a friendly brown-skinned man met us to take us to baggage claim, looked incredulous when we told...
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spring break in Italy: Rome
It was Saturday, April 6 when we woke up in Rome, and my kind bride had scheduled the most fitting activity I could possibly engage in at...
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spring break in Florence, Tuscany
We arrived by train in Florence and navigated the throngs of tourists toward our AirBnb, a unit requiring climbing several flights of wooden stairs with steep rises....
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Driving to St Andrews
On Tuesday the 5th of July, I walked a mile in the rain to Hertz and rented what was supposed to be an automatic Audi but ended...
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Edinburgh, Scotland
On Monday, we began our second day in Scotland with hopes of touring the Palace of Holyroodhouse, but the Queen was there, meaning no tours were to...
About
I started blogging in 2007 during an Air Force deployment to Iraq and kept at it when I got back. Since then, I’ve written for DadCentric, City Dads Group, Humor Blogs, and other sites. This site is primarily for our family travels and adventures, because I forget stuff if I don’t write it down. Our family trips include 2 girls with a boy in the middle; they’re led by an archeologist-turned-writer/influencer mom and a dad who’s deployed to Iraq twice, visited all 50 United States, run with the…
During the first month of the new year, I did some group rides with my Harley Owners Group, I argued with some defense lawyers, and we rucked or mountain biked in the nearby woods.
I saw my favorite dental hygienist again. I went up to the Hike Inn with L2L for the 13th straight MLK weekend (perfect attendance!). My bride and I flew to Las Vegas for a motorcycle injury lawyers conference and watched 2000 bikes get auctioned. It was possibly my favorite January that did not involve an Alabama national championship. Here are its 31 seconds:
In December, we got to see Phil again when he came to Atlanta for a book signing and Q&A.
We had several holiday parties (but fewer than we did before Covid), took an impromptu trip to Miami Beach for a new attorney friend’s 10-year anniversary as a firm, and I got a car for our 16-year-old that I promptly (i.e., before getting home with it from the broker) wrecked when an elderly lady left her husband’s grave, went through a red light, and got smashed by my daughter’s soon-to-be VW SUV.
Afterward, I started myriad medical appointments and took my first sick day since being self-employed to deal with extended dizziness and nausea. I’m still waiting on results of the brain MRI with DTI. The day before the MVA, I had to fire a dishonest paralegal and am dealing with the aftermath of same (and an impending defamation suit to file). The day before that, I lost a friend to addiction.
2023 will likely necessitate some major pivots or changes, but those will have to be decided upon and enacted in the coming weeks. Here are December 2022’s 1-second clips:
And, while we’re here, feel free to check out all of 2022 in its 1-second-per-day glory, as its compilation video is below. I like how I found amusing or interesting seconds in every day during what was one of the hardest years I’ve ever had (the hardest I’ve ever worked, by far).
November began with a legal conference before the Mrs and I flew to Copenhagen for our anniversary weekend, where we enjoyed some of the best restaurants in the world, closely following the stops enjoyed on Somebody Feed Phil’s Denmark episode.
Then we saw Billy Joel + Lionel Ritchie with friends from Austin before I flew to Clearwater to depose an adverse party’s CEO and President in a contentious case set for court in December.
We had a pleasant Thanksgiving with smoked duck and fried turkey, and there were many days whose weather allowed for time on 2 wheels.
In essence, November was nice. December has not been, but that’ll be a post for another month.