Category: vacation

  • three hours

    In order to burn off every last hour of vacation I would have lost at the end of the year, I had to go to work three hours late this morning. It seems petty on the face of it, but I would rather chew on aluminum foil than give up unused vacation hours, so I Read.

  • hot tub rock and roll

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    We spent a whole week on a cruise ship, but we hardly ever went to any of the activities that the cruise line arranged for the passengers. There were too many activities arranged for the Sea Monkeys that we didn’t want to miss, so our days were jam-packed with those. We didn’t go to the Read.

  • all aboard

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    True story: As the bus taking us from our hotel to the cruise ship neared Port Canaveral, the driver turned around and asked us, “Which cruise line are you guys on?” The frigging driver didn’t know which terminal he was supposed to drop us off at! And yet somehow we still got there. Tell you Read.

  • What the hell, Florida?

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    Here’s something I really didn’t expect: At the end of our vacation when our ship tied up to its pier in Port Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday morning, the temperature there was forty-six degrees. Meanwhile, back in Wisconsin, temps were in the fifties. What the hell was that about? When we left Wisconsin, it was cold Read.

  • sniffles

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    Here’s something I can share real quick about going on a cruise: Take lots of cold & flu medicine with you: decongestants, pain killers, all that over the counter stuff that you take when you start feeling fluey but believe that you really have to keep going to work for at least another two or Read.

  • cruise crazy

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    Hi, we’re back from our cruise to the Bahamas and we had a great time, thank you very much for asking. This was the first cruise either of us had gone on, so we had no idea what to expect, other than we were going to be on a great big ship that was going Read.

  • Cruise Monkey Day Two

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    Our trip from the hotel to the port did not go quite the way I pictured it. I was under the impression that the shuttle we booked from the hotel to the port would be a Ford Excursion, or a stretch van, possibly as big as one of those sixteen-person shuttle buses that hotels send Read.

  • Cruise Monkey Day One

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    I managed to get to sleep around nine-thirty on the Friday night before we were going to fly out for our cruise. I even kept on sleeping until about two in the morning, but after that I was just lying in bed awake, so I got up at about two-thirty and read a book until 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.

  • Wisconsin Film Festival

    Meru was the last film we saw at the Wisconsin Film Festival, which made thirty-two films in all, if you count the six-minute short film Little America and the two films we walked out of. I’m counting them, but My Darling B thinks it’s cheating. The best dramatic narrative that we was was, no question, Read.

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