Category: Excursions
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Day 1, ABC Barista Training
As my body woke me at 4:30a PDT to tell me it was time to get up, I continued to wrestle myself to sleep until about 5:30a. Got up to take a shower in yet another hotel that seems to think the average man is 5’5. Maybe I need to start asking for a tall…
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Welcome to Portland
The fog was as thick as soup this morning leaving Charlotte. That turned into rain in Chicago. Snacked on a hot dog and twiddled my fingers. The flight from Ohare to Portland was full of excitement. I somehow managed to get myself a middle seat. Which anyone who knows me really knows how much I…
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TLC, Thanksgiving, Montreat, 2004
We’ve started a tradition to meet up with a lot of extended family every two years for Thanksgiving which I wholeheartedly support. This year we were hosted by George & Betsy Ivey who spearheaded the event and landed us three homes in Montreat, NC, a skip outside of Black Mountain & Asheville. We left on…
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Weekend Wedding in Roanoke, VA
We’re heading out of town today to go to Roanoke for my cousin Julia’s wedding. (She’s the third adult from left to right in the picture.) We went to her brother’s wedding in Charleston a few years back, and I got horribly, horribly sick. I don’t know what it was, but I saw my insides…