In my previous post, I left off the story of my cruise on the Halcyon at the end of the first day. Now, we’ll continue with day two. As before, be warned: SPOILERS from this point on. My Data Pad…
Category: Travel
Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser
Last week (Aug 23-25) I traveled to Orlando for a stay— or a voyage— on the Galactic Starcruiser at Disney World. This was an ambitious new experience created by Disney Imagineering, and one which did not prove a success. It’s…
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2020 Road Trip Journal: Full Circle
Day Twenty-nine: July 8 It occurs to me that I should have arranged this trip to end one day sooner: day 28, exactly four weeks, has a nice round feel to it. But on my last day, I did manage…
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2020 Road Trip Journal: Ahead, and Behind
Day Twenty-eight: July 7 Homeward bound, today I drove from Taos to Amarillo. The drive was pretty for the first hour or two, then it came down out of the mountains and into the flat plains that I’ll be in…
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2020 Road Trip Journal: Canyons of the Ancients
I’m going to cover two days in this post— since the second is pretty brief. Day Twenty-six: July 5 (posted July 6) So, what to do with my second day at Mesa Verde? I asked a park ranger for suggestions,…
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2020 Road Trip Journal: Mesa Verde
Day 25: July 4 (posted July 6) Much like Yellowstone’s hot springs, seeing every single Mesa Verde cliff dwelling and archaeological site in person is pretty cool— but as photographs, they look pretty repetitive. So just as with Yellowstone, I’ll…
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2020 Road Trip Journal: Sunsets and Mesas
Wi-fi at National Park lodges continues to be hit or miss. I have alleged internet access here at Mesa Verde, but the connection is painfully ssssllllllooooowwww. After the time spent waiting on today’s pictures to upload, I’m going to delay…
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2020 Road Trip Journal: Arches and Canyonlands
Day Twenty-three: July 2 I’m posting early today, for two reasons. First, I realized that over the time I’ve spent in this general area, with only short drives when I changed hotels, I haven’t had a day when I was…
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2020 Road Trip Journal: The Needles at Canyonlands
Day Twenty-two: July 1 As planned, I drove south to The Needles district of Canyonlands National Park. It was a longish drive— around an hour and a half each way, for a three-hour “commute” taken out of the day, and…
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2020 Road Trip Journal: Arches National Park
Day Twenty-one: June 30 I did manage to get into Arches National Park this morning. For future reference, a quarter to eight in the morning is early enough, at least this year. I was here on my 2015 road trip…
