Category: Travel

Riding the Frisbee at Six Flags

Post author By elvisgumby
Post date June 27, 2019
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When my kids were young, we would visit my mother-in-law in San Antonio, Texas regularly for family vacations. My mother-in-law would buy our family season passes to Six Flags Fiesta Texas. One year when we were there, I rode a ride called the Frisbee with my son and youngest daughter. Wikipedia describes the Frisbee as “type of pendulum amusement ride featuring a circular gondola that rotates as it swings back and forth. Riders are seated on the gondola facing inward.” Most years my kids weren’t interested in riding this and I did care to go on it for my own amusement. It’s not the style of ride that I would normally be attracted to. This year was one of the last years that our family made this trip. My kids were more willing to try different rides. I encouraged them by riding this one with them.

Italy Travel

Losing Luggage in Italy

Several years ago, I had an opportunity to travel to Italy. I was travelling with a man and a woman from the company I work. We were on a business trip to visit a supplier for our company. When we arrived at the airport in Milan, we went to the baggage claim area. I quickly found my bag and so did the man. The woman did not see her bag. We waited until every other bag was claimed and cleared from the carousel. Still no bag for her. We went to the lost baggage area and made a claim before we left the airport. Fortunately for this lady, she had brought a few necessities with her in a small carry-on bag. We had a business meeting as soon as we arrived. We also had a drive that was at least an hour to get to the town where we were staying. The lady was able to shop for a few things after we had gotten to this town.

Travel

Traveling Through Denver

Several years ago, I was traveling for business with a large group of people. During our trip, we were visiting several of the customers of our company. I was the only salaried person on the trip and was responsible for taking care of the group. There were at least 2 people on the trip that had never flown before. I was the only male in our group. Our travel plans took us to Walla Walla, Salt Lake City and Denver. The inexperienced travelers were nervous, especially on the first flight. By the end of the trip, one of the most nervous ladies was making future travel plans. She asked me if you could pick what size plane you rode on when you fly. She had decided she liked the larger planes more.

Epilepsy Travel Vacation

Our Experience with Epilepsy – The San Antonio Trip

Post author By elvisgumby
Post date September 14, 2017
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I talked my first experience with my wife having seizures in my previous post. She didn’t have any issues until the end of that year as we prepared to visit my mother-in-law in San Antonio. My wife and I had planned to travel with her brother and his wife to Little Rock, Arkansas on New Year’s Eve. We had booked a flight from there to San Antonio early on New Year’s Day.

Graceland Travel

Travelling through Memphis on Elvis’ Birthday

Post author By elvisgumby
Post date August 13, 2017
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I have made regular trips for several years to Graceland for Elvis Week in August. Graceland also has activities in January to celebrate Elvis’ birthday. I have never visited Graceland during his birthday celebration. They don’t have anything that goes on during his birthday celebration that compares to the Candlelight Vigil experience. It doesn’t attract as many people so it’s not an environment that seems to be as good for people watching. Still, many Elvis fans from around the world come to Memphis for his birthday. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to travel through Memphis on a Monday after Elvis’ birthday when it fell on a weekend.

Influences Travel

Springtime in Cleveland

It was spring of 2007 and I was on a business trip in the Cleveland, Ohio area. It was the week before Easter and the weather was warm in Tennessee before we left. It was also warm in Cleveland when we arrived. I had checked the weather before we left Tennessee and I saw that there was a possibility of it getting cool while we were in Cleveland so I took a relatively heavy jacket on the trip. I was traveling with two men named Phillip and Todd. I don’t think either of them had checked the weather before they left home. Phillip had brought a light jacket. Todd was ready for spring and brought no jacket at all and only short sleeve shirts. The weather was warm in Cleveland on Tuesday when we arrived. But we were staying through Thursday and the weather was supposed to get cold before we left.

Restaurants Travel Vacation

Eating at the 1982 World’s Fair – Part Two

Post author By elvisgumby
Post date July 14, 2017
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I spent some time with my family this past weekend and we talked about my previous post about the 1982 World’s Fair. As we talked about the trip, we started talking about another notable meal that we ate during this trip.

Restaurants Travel Vacation

Eating at the 1982 World’s Fair

Post author By elvisgumby
Post date July 7, 2017
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The 1982 World’s Fair was held in Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville is about a 5-hour drive from where we lived at the time. Our family decided to go to the fair for our summer vacation. My wife and I were dating at the time and my family invited her to go on the trip. My sister invited one of her friends to go on the trip too. The six of us traveled to Knoxville for the fair. One of my cousins was in veterinarian school in Knoxville at the time. We stayed with him and his wife and they acted as our tour guides while we were at the fair.

Restaurants Travel Vacation

Bob Evans Coffee

Several years ago, my family were on vacation. We decided to stop at a Bob Evans restaurant for breakfast. We don’t have any Bob Evans restaurants very close to where we live and my family had never been to one before. I had eaten at one during my work travel and had an idea of the type of food you could get there. There was a Bob Evans close to where we were staying one night and I recommended it when my wife said she wanted breakfast. Everyone was satisfied with everything we had except for my wife. She didn’t like the coffee. She assumed that it was just a bad batch of coffee. We didn’t really think that much of it at the time.

Elvis Week Album Kids Travel Vacation Video

Making the Video for Just Say You Don’t Love Me

Post author By elvisgumby
Post date June 17, 2017
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On June 2, 2016, my son turned 21. I decided to take him on a trip to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail to celebrate his birthday. At the time, The Kentucky Bourbon Trail included visits to the facilities of 8 bourbon manufacturers in Kentucky. Three of the manufacturers had two facilities that you can visit so a complete tour included 11 stops. There are tours and tastings at all of these stops. We did everything at all of the stops except for the Jim Beam facility in downtown Louisville. The main thing that they had going on at that stop were just tastings. We arrived there late on our first day of the trip with plans to eat a meal and celebrate my son’s birthday in the 4th Street district in downtown Louisville where this facility is located. We moved to the celebration after walking through that shop.