A few choice comments…a few things learned

This past weekend, we made the 11+ hour trip from Home Sweet Home to Dave’s folks in Illinois.  Round trip, we are looking at nearly 24 hours of the 4 of us either in a car, in a rest stop, or in a restaurant.
That’s nearly 24 hours of blog fodder, folks.  Here are the highlights.

Jake: [...]

Another first!

Tomorrow, we are headed to Illinois.
While this isn’t the first time we’ve been to Illinois since we’ve moved to Maryland, it IS the first time we’ve driven straight there without breaking up the trip.
We usually stop in Ohio…6 hours from Maryland to Ohio…7 hours from Ohio to Illinois.
This time, we’re barreling through.
It should be about [...]

Stomping grounds

This past weekend, we all went to Ohio to surprise the family. We  had a great time with everybody, but as we drove from house to house visiting, I noticed something.
The city I visited is not the city I grew up in.
Business after business that I remembered from my childhood was boarded up.  The new [...]

Prague – The End!

I know it’s taking me forever and a day to get these posts up. I also know you are all waiting with bated breath for the installments. Right?
I thought so. If you need a refresher course, check out what we did Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Thursday was a strange day.  A little [...]

Prague – DAVE’S BIRTHDAY!

Originally, when we booked the trip, Dave thought that Sunday would be the only day he would have to “do Prague”.
Little did he know that I was going to guilt him into convince him to play hooky on his birthday so that he could have a chance to see some more sights.  He only had [...]

Prague – Days 2 and 3

At this rate, I should have my whole trip summarized by sometime next May…
Anyway, after Dave and I doing our own thing on Sunday, I had a tour lined up for Monday. It was a “panoramic tour of Prague”…which means you spend 42 seconds in approximately 50 places. My whole intention, though, was [...]

Prague – One Day at a Time

et ready to get your scroll on…
We got to Prague on Saturday and that’s all there is to say about that day. We spent the late afternoon trying our darndest to stay awake so we could get on the local time. We lost consciousness around 10pm after being awake about 22 hours. [...]

Back to the present time, yeah…

There are pictures.  So many pictures.  Lots and lots of Prague pictures. And I promise that I will post some when I wake up.
Which may be sometime in September.
Jet lag is seriously kicking me in the back side.  I’m feeling every minute of the 6 hour time difference between here and Prague.
Until then, I will [...]

Belated is better than nothing!

So, somewhere between the whirling dervish that was my schedule before we left for Prague and limited computer access while we were there, I let a very special day slip by without a word.
How silly of me!
Dave’s birthday was last Wednesday!!
Dave, I love you more than you can ever know.  I hope you had a [...]

Virginia Beach, baby!

We’ve been home since Friday and we’re still finding sand…
We had an amazing time in Virginia Beach. We pretty much did two things: The Beach and The Pool.  I think it was Wednesday when Dave and I finally said we needed to go do something other than The Beach and The Pool.
So we went [...]