Category: Travel
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Spontaneous Hawaiian Excursion Travelogues – Day 1, the One with the Volcanoes
With only one pre-booked tour, we got to wake up without an alarm on both Tuesday and Thursday. All I had planned for Tuesday was making our way over to Volcanoes National Park so we spent a little time finding a local place for breakfast. I had brought some oatmeal with me but decided not…
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Spontaneous Hawaiian Excursion Travelogues – Planning and Travel
The travelogues have returned! I have plans for at least two more personal vacations within the next year and two school related field trips in the upcoming school year as well. That being said, all of this travel depends on how the pandemic changes and how various governments plan to respond to the Delta variant.…
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Lemonade from Airline Lemons
Several weeks ago, I intended to take a group of 15 former students to NYC. The group first formed in the fall of 2019 to participate in the amazing international Model UN. Some had participated in the spring prior. With the Covid interruption, the organizers cancelled the spring 2020 conference and ultimately turned the 2021…
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Just Before Sleep Thoughts
Most nights my mind swarms with thoughts about a wide variety of topics. Lately, those thoughts have drifted to Spring Break and the desire to go somewhere other than my house. After spending a week and a inside going nowhere and seeing no one thanks to Covid, another week of “staycation” did not sound appealing.…
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Throwback Travelogues – London Day 6: Salisbury and Stonehenge – Beautiful Ancient History
It took a while for me to decide which day I preferred: Windemere (Day 1) or Stonehenge. A couple weeks on I know that my first day was my favorite. This day ran a very close second. I got up early Monday morning to catch a 7:13 train out to Salisbury. Although I snagged a…
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Future Travel Plans
I love to travel. Anyone who takes even a short glance at my writing can see that. Over the past several months, I have also discovered a love of travel writing. My experiment with my travelogues morphed into something I want to regularly incorporate into my writing. To do that I need to travel, obviously.…
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Throwback Travelogues – London Day 5: 2 Castles Run 10k recap
2020 Jen – I did not do much touring on this day for reasons I explain throughout the post. I clearly have learned so much more with travel and most definitely with running. I got to mark another item off my bucket list by running a race in England. I went into the race with…
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Throwback Travelogues – London Day 4: The main attraction in the city
I crammed as many sights into my full day of sightseeing in London so that I could clear my schedule for the British Museum. I expected to spend hours there owing to the fact that enough history resides within those walls to intoxicate any history lover. Before I arrived I stopped at Picadilly Circus, described…
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Throwback Travelogues: Day 3, City of London, a history lover’s paradise
2020 Jen – This day marked when I first fell in love with London with a little adventure the night before. The night after Windemere was its own adventure. It all started with a lackluster interaction with the hotel receptionist. This gentleman barely spoke to me. He took my credit card and gave me vague…
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Travelogues Throwback – Lake District Beauty – June 7, 2011
2020 Jen – Since travel options have diminished a bit lately, I thought I would go back and revisit some old favorites. I originally posted these recaps on my old blog back around the time of travel, nine years ago. I have made some edits but left most of the pictures and text the same.…