Several years ago, I was on a business trip in the Oklahoma City area. I was traveling with a coworker from another of our company’s locations. We arrived at the Oklahoma City airport on the same flight and planned to share a rental car since we were staying at the same hotel and would be …
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The Backroads of South Carolina
On our recent cruise, we traveled into South Carolina to get to the port in Charleston. It’s common for us to use our GPS to navigate our trips and this one was no different. While it is more desirable to take as many major roads as possible, GPS software will usually take you through some …
SOS from the USS Sunshine
Overnight on the third evening of our cruise to the Bahamas, my wife was awakened by my voice coming from the bathroom of our cabin. “Can someone come help me!” was the plea that she heard. I wasn’t yelling, but I was speaking in a voice louder than what I usually use. She got up, …
Guidance from the GPS
My wife and I recently went on vacation to Ashville, North Carolina. On our way home, we planned to drop by and visit our daughter who lives in Waverly, Tennessee. Our daughter lives a little over an hour away from us. It had been a couple of weeks since we had seen her. We had …
Ashville Food Tour
We recently took a vacation to Ashville, North Carolina. My sister had been there a few weeks before we went and recommended that we take a food tour. She said it was a fun way to experience a variety of local restaurants in a short period of time. My wife made arrangements for our food …
The Best Fried Chicken in Lexington, Kentucky
My youngest daughter Mary spent the last year in graduate school at the University of Kentucky. My wife and I went with her on an apartment hunting trip a year ago. We were able to find a reasonably priced apartment that wasn’t far from campus. The apartment complex was gated which gave us a sense …
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Searching for Stinky Gringo
Several years ago, my wife saw a bottle of pre-mixed margaritas called Stinky Gringo. She asked the store clerk if it was any good. Their response was, “Oh yeah! But don’t plan on going anywhere after you drink it. It’s strong!” We tried it out and liked it. It has about twice the alcohol content …
Printer’s Drawer – The Alamo
My mother-in-law moved to San Antonio, Texas a few years before my kids were born. My wife and I have made several trips there both before and after our children were born. Our first attempt at a trip was cut short when we were rear ended by a drunk driver in Little Rock, Arkansas just …
Printer’s Drawer – Vegas Dice
In October of 2003, I had an opportunity with work to go to a packaging show in Las Vegas. My wife’s birthday is in October, so I arranged to have her go with me as a birthday gift. At the writing of this post, this is the only time either of us has been to …
Printer’s Drawer – St. Louis Arch
Most people going on a vacation to St. Louis in the summer would include a trip to see the Cardinals play baseball. Before we had children, my wife and I decided to take a trip there. We decided to intentionally go on a week when the Cardinals were out of town. We felt this would …