This category includes posts about places we have travelled or hope to travel.
We typically vacation in Savannah each year for our anniversary, having honeymooned there and really enjoyed it enough to go back each year. Jen’s best friend and her husband typically vacation in Myrtle Beach each summer and we decided to meet up for a weekend in Savannah since they had never been there. We usually…
The second half of our 2012 vacation was to San Francisco; we drove directly there from Yosemite National Park where we had spent the previous three days. I had visited San Francisco a few years ago and while I was only there for a couple of days (I was coaching a marathon group running the…
Since we were traveling to California for a wedding (Jen’s cousin got married in Lancaster, in the Antelope Valley of the Mojave high desert) we decided to merge our annual vacation with this trip. We new we wanted to visit Yosemite National Park. I had been to San Francisco a few years ago while coaching…
For our fourth wedding anniversary, Jen and I headed off to Savannah, Georgia to revisit the location of our honeymoon. I’m still angry that I’ve lived the last 40 years of my life only about two and a half hours from this amazing location and never went until only a few years ago. We stayed…
Jen and I went sky diving while we were in Nevada and had the best time. We both jumped tandem from 12,000 feet and I’m totally addicted now! I looked into the cost of parachutes but the damn things are $5000. I’m not willing to sell one of my racing bikes, so I guess the…
My wife and I have never been very good about taking vacations. I’ve always been somewhat jealous of my mother and her husband who block out a week each fall to get away to the mountains and spend their time doing absolutely nothing at all. To some extent, I think that I would be bored…