There and Back Again

The two bad parts of a vacation, in my opinion, are the flights to and from your destination. I wish one day, someone will invent a device where you can beam up and immediately land where you want to land – no hassles of flying and waiting at airports. You know, kind of like Star [...]

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I have to go on vacation to remember to write a blog entry - probably because that’s when I’m inspired to write something. Writing after a long day at work just doesn’t do it nowadays. Where’s the fun in journaling about layoffs and salary surveys anyway? It’s a depressing topic to even think about.
As I [...]

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Pondering: When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. (Mohandas Gandhi)
Today didn’t start out right at all.
It started last night, really when we got news that there had been a landslide early in the day and so therefore [...]

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Pondering: To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. (William Hazlitt)
Day 2 of our cruise. I woke up early, around 430 p.m. to find two things that brought a smile to my face: first, the vessel was slowly approaching the port of Ketchikan, in the southeastern [...]

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Pondering: Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. (Mark Twain)
Another trip over. Another set of pictures to print and put together in a scrapbook in an effort to capture every moment and time in this very wonderful trip. I truly had a fantastic time. [...]

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Pondering: It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn’t match what you dreamed it would be. (Randy K. Milholland)
We said goodbye to Killarney this morning and my heart is sad. It was a magnificent town; very charming and memorable. The Ring of Kerry trip was worth all the cost and the [...]

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Pondering: There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. (Sean O’Faolain)
This is our last night in Killarney (Cill Airne in Gaelic, meaning Church of the Sloes). The B&B we are staying in is not the most [...]

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Pondering: On Pembroke road look out for my ghost, dishevelled with shoes untied, playing through the railings with little children whose children have long since died. (Patrick Kavanagh)
We sure did a lot today - stopped at a lot of picturesque places as our bus drove around the Ring of Kerry. The Ring of Kerry [...]

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Pondering: Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion. (Jane Austen)
One of our many stops today was St. Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland. My sister and I went inside the cathedral to have a look at the altar, the windows and the overall architecture. [...]

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Pondering: Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. (James Joyce)
I’m on board a train to County Cork, Ireland. This is hour one of a 3-hour train ride. Once there, my sister Myra and I are joining a tour to visit the Blarney Castle and kiss [...]

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