Trips We've Made
Our trips
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Trip to Florida – Part II
After leaving Sarasota we went to Ocala where my new niece by marriage lived. Her parents operate a print shop but not only do they make business cards and those types of things, they make Vehicle Graphics, Screen Printing on t-shirts, Banners, Embroidery on shirts, hats and other things. We got to go on a tour of the place. What an interesting business. Leaving Ocala, we landed in St. Augustine. St. Augustine has one of the oldest structures in North America – the Castillo de San Marcos. It was built in 1672 by the Spaniards and was never taken by the enemy. The walls are 14-19′ thick at the base…
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Trip to Florida – Part I
After a long stint away from Treasuring the Moments due to visits from family and various and sundry happenings, I’m hoping to make an appearance more frequently. As I write, my family and I are driving down the road – leaving Florida and heading for Alabama. Although Florida is known as the “sunshine state”, sunshine and warmth have been in short supply around here. ……..Well I started the above paragraph over a week ago and am just now getting back to writing. *Smack, smack* I must do better about posting! The occasion of our trip to Florida was for my nephew’s wedding. We decided to make a family trip out of it…
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Quick Trip to Boston
I’ve been somewhat distracted from writing lately due to other distractions. Just this past weekend Russell & I took a quick trip to Boston. There was a book show that we wanted to check out as a potential source for inventory for our online book business. Now maybe I can’t say definitively that Boston is not my kind of town since I was only there for about 4 days, but I sure was longing for home. Give me the wide open spaces, less noise and cleaner air. The people were quite friendly – friendlier than I think you would find Arizonans but what bothered me the most was the immorality. Everywhere you looked…
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The Final Post on our Ohio Trip – Camp Activities
This is it; the final post chronicling our trip to Ohio. At this youth camp they have activities for all ages. During their craft class even Audrey and Justus were able to participate. This class made wooden paddle wheel boats one day and the next they raced them in a little swimming pool. I promise. I did not make Audrey go to this class. I’m not sure what her problem was but she got over it shortly. Looks like she’s been having a red popsicle again. They had a cake decorating class for the girls that were interested and a sewing class and the boys had an opportunity to learn…
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Somewhere between Oklahoma & Ohio
Russell is made of a different fabric than I. The longest I’ve driven in one stretch is 3 hours. Russell can go all night and then some more and that’s exactly what we did. But even he needs to rest sometimes. I never know where we’ll end up. This time it was in a little bitty town that must have a claim on Route 66 although that’s not the road we pulled off on. It looked like a fun store whose parking lot became our rest stop for the next 45 minutes. Nothing was open since it was early enough that most people were still sleeping. A little rest and he’s good…
