Traveling in the United States and Abroad
Laura, McKenna, and I got back to Midlothian from Caseville, Michigan on August 1st, with just enough time to cut the lawn and do the laundry before we left for the beach vacation with my family at Frisco on Hatteras Island on Sunday, August 4th. Our Sunday beach rental enabled us to avoid the terrible…
On Saturday, July 29th, we packed up at Canadian Lakes to move on to the annual vacation in Caseville for Laura’s mom’s side of the family. There we would meet up with Laura’s sister, Gayle, who McKenna and her cousins all agreed was the best aunt out of all of the possible aunts. In Caseville,…
On Tuesday, July 23rd, we headed south from Cadillac to the misleadingly named Canadian Lakes. Along the way, we saw a sign for an overlook off the highway, and we were immediately intrigued. Michigan has many impressive overlooks, but nearly all of them are on the coasts of lakes. What could this overlook be in…
On July 20th, we left for the annual trip to Michigan, just in time to escape a day when it would go up to 100 in Richmond. Normally, we drive up to the Detroit area, but this time we would bypass that altogether for three lake houses. Fourteen hours later, we arrived in Cadillac, Michigan.…
On July 2nd, our Italian tour group left Sorrento for Pompeii. We would tour the ruins of Pompeii and then proceed to Rome, our final destination on the ten-day trip. Pompeii is located away from the coast, which meant returning to the heat of the interior after the breezy days in Sorrento and Capri. Even…
On June 29th, our Euro travel group started the next portion of the Italian tour, to Sorrento and Capri. The combination of our early tour of the Academia and highway traffic caused us to miss the stop at Orvieto on the long journey south from Florence. On the lengthy drive, the travelers found a variety…
On June 27th, our party of Euro travelers had an early wake up to get to the ferry from Venice to the mainland of Italy in order to get to Florence by the early afternoon. To offset the effects of our early rising, I ordered the large coffee to go from the place across the…
On Monday, June 24, our student travelers gathered at the Richmond airport for our flight to Venice via Atlanta. The Italian tour would take us from Venice to Florence to Sorrento to Rome, and, as this was an educational tour, we intended to look as little like tourists as possible to soak in the Italian…
After years of the AP Reading being in Salt Lake City, this year, the AP World History essays were scored in Kansas City this year, and Jim and I headed out there on June 1st. The switch to KC would involve a pretty extreme change in climate, with much more humidity than in arid Utah,…
In Virginia, the end of summer is signaled by an abrupt 30 degree drop in daytime temperatures over a 24 hour period. That seasonal change used to be predictably in mid-October, but global climate change has pushed it later and later. While this is obviously bad for the planet, it meant that our semi-annual excursion…
