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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…
In October, I had 5 work-related trips that we did our best to turn into fun. One was to Portland, Maine, so I hit my 43rd U.S. National Park–Acadia ! We started in Myrtle Beach, flew to Phoenix, then drove to Jekyll Island, GA, and then flew to Baha Mar in the Bahamas before flying to Maine.
In between, we saw Smashing Pumpkins with Jane’s Addiction and Death Cab for Cutie concerts, and I participated in my first group ride with the American Legion Riders, which was awesome.
The last day of the month, our family Halloween costume was Disney villains.
It was an awesome (but harried) month. Here are its 31 seconds!
We started Labor Day weekend by diving at the the Huntsville Space and Rocket center , doing an underwater diving park near Gadsden, and then spent a rainy Monday at the Barber Motorsports museum by Birmingham. We got front row seats for a show and then spent my bride’s birthday weekend test driving electric motorcycles and having amazing dinners at Georgia Boy and Lazy Betty. Both dinners were awesome experiences. So was the bike riding.
My son took a bunch of friends to Goodwill to buy outfits and then take his first trip to the Olive Garden for a birthday weekend meal; he had Mexican on the actual day. Shortly after, he had a mountain bike race and did much better than he did last year.
I had a legal conference at the Ritz Carlton Lake Oconee and ended the month at another legal conference at Myrtle Beach, just as Hurricane Ian slammed into our hotel beach. In between, I launched my first billboard and got some legal accolades.
Well done, September. Well done indeed.
In August, I worked a lot; the children returned to school; we saw 2 concerts; I returned to Reliance, Tennessee to spend a weekend with my high school friends for the 8th straight year, and the Mrs. and I were invited to a black tie gala with the Governor.
And now? We start football season and my bride’s birthday month. Good times are ahead.