This Is Drivel

Category: travel

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    There are a lot of fun things to do in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Staying overnight at a hotel alongside the highway is not one of them. But this is for work, not play, so I didn’t really expect to have much fun here. There was a little bit of a problem with the room; I… Read.

  • road warrior

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    Wednesday, I drove 146 miles to Wausau, 31 miles to Wittenberg, and 29 miles to Shawano. Thursday, I drove 41 miles to Oconto, 174 miles to Madison, and 115 miles to Waupaca. Friday, I drove 109 miles to Algoma and 109 miles back to Waupaca. Today, you couldn’t get me into a car for any… Read.

  • billions and billions

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    I can’t tell you how good it feels to be home again. Okay, that’s not entirely accurate, as I’m about to attempt to tell you exactly that. I just got back from a business trip of nearly seven hundred miles to the northwest corner of our fair state, and I don’t feel it’s an exaggeration… Read.

  • Great Big Fish

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    Wow! A Great Big Fish! This must be the one that got away. Just one of the things we saw on a recent business trip to Hayward, Wisconsin. Read.

  • deficit

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    I think I may finally be all caught up on the sleep I lost this week. Actually, I didn’t lose that much sleep. I was on an overnight business trip and we stayed in a hotel that was almost literally curbside to Interstate 43 in Manitowoc. I say “almost literally” because Interstate highways don’t have… Read.

  • backwards

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    I’m writing up some detailed drivel about each day of our vacation in the Pacific Northwest. I already posted some drivel about our last day in Seattle, because it was fresh in my mind and I sort of do things as they occur to me, so doing it backwards isn’t really too much of a… Read.

  • pacnw day 10

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    Home again, home again, jiggidy-jog. Woke up this morning after sleeping ten hours. Hardly surprising. As My Darling B pointed out, we were traveling all day. In fact, we could have flown all the way to Japan in the time it took us to get from Seattle to Madison. And I mean we slept hard.… Read.

  • pacnw day 9

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    Alarm clocks. They don’t belong on a vacation. If it were up to me, we wouldn’t have brought a single one along, but they’re kinda built into our smartypants phones. Can’t get them out. Also, we needed them today because we wanted to get up early enough to shower, get to the airport, get through security… Read.

  • pacnw day 8

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    We took our sweet time getting ready to hit the town this morning, not bothering to even get out of bed until about eight. HOW COULD WE BE SO LAZY? It’s just this simple: Today was our last day on vacation in Seattle. Heck, it was our last day of vacation. We were not going… Read.

  • pacnw day 7

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    After sleeping the sleep of the well-traveled tourist and soaking myself in a hot shower long enough to feel awake and alive again, I stepped out of the room while B cleaned up and ventured downstairs to seek coffee. Our accommodations at this hotel are simple but not uncivilized: There is a coffee shop sharing… Read.

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