Travel
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Ghosts of Fourths of July Past, Part 2: State College, 2003
My Grandma Gaffron and my Aunt Sue had a prime piece of real estate. At least, they had use of it for 24 hours, time enough to watch of the State College Fireworks…
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Good weekend…
This was a pretty darn good weekend. I left early Wednesday morning on a train to Washington, DC. I was there for a workshop and to present at the workshop, which I did…
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Sailing the Ports of the Great Lakes
So we have this great idea for a documentary based on sailing the ports of the Great Lakes. We would detail the mariners working on the Great Lakes, and how the various ports…
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Home, at last.
It is good to be home. We arrived back in Pittsburgh last night at almost 21:00. Our flight left a little late from Cincinnati due to some congestion there. One would think that,…
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History update…
Astute readers will have noticed that I had some of the kings confused in the entry about the Tower of London. I intend to fix these later. I was tired when typing that,…
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Rotterdam, Day 3
Well, today was our last day in Rotterdam. I'm getting a slight cold (of course). The work event went well today. I came back and relaxed with Jenny for a bit. She got…
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Rotterdam, Day 2
Today was an all-day work event for me, so I wasn't out and about to do anything with Jenny. Jenny did get out, though, and explored Rotterdam a bit, walking along one of…
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We’re in Rotterdam!
We made it to Rotterdam. As I mentioned in the last entry, we were able to get a train to Brussels as planned. fortunately, we already had our tickets--they told a few people…
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we have a train!
We were a little worried about the train to Brussels today. We had tickets, but with the reduced schedule, not everyone was getting a train. We arrived early, thinking that we might have…
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London, Day 6
We're getting ready to depart for the train station. Our train time isn't until 14:53 or something like that. We're going to try to get to the station and see what train they…