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 …
Category Archives: Vacation
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 …
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 …
Riding the Revolution at Libertyland
Libertyland was an amusement park with a patriotic theme located at the Mid-South Fairgrounds in Memphis. It was probably best known for the roller coaster called the Zippin Pippin in part because Elvis Presley declared it as his favorite ride. This ride was built at the Fairgounds around 1912, years before the amusement park opened …
Riding the Frisbee at Six Flags
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 …