After a year of pandemic craziness in education, summer break had arrived in late June. Discomforted by the peace and quiet, Laura and I opted for some self-inflicted home renovation craziness, this time of the kitchen. The remodel would begin while we were on vacation, creating the dilemma of departing for the beach on the…
At the end of July, we began vacationing in the era of social distancing. For our first trip, we were going to Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks with my family, and Hatteras is remote enough that distancing would not really be an issue, provided we avoided the Avon Food Lion on a weekend. The…
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…
Having traveled to Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alberta (Canada), South Dakota, Missouri, and Kentucky, our next destination was North Carolina – the Outer Banks. It’s a rough life that we lead. Step one in preparing to travel once again was cleaning out the car from our last trip, which meant moving McKenna’s car booster…
The Abbott family vacation on Hatteras Island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks would be a bit later in the summer in 2017, during the first full week in August. This ended up to be a fortunate bit of timing, since the company building a new bridge to the island managed to severe all three power…
After the rainy day intermission to our vacation, the weather was great for the rest of the week. On Wednesday we returned to Frisco beach, trying to get there at around low tide, since that is the best time for children or uncoordinated adults to go in the ocean. While we waited for the tide…
In mid-July, we went on the annual Abbott beach vacation in the Outer Banks. Since we had a Saturday-to-Saturday rental, and since Saturday traffic is horrific, Laura and I took the other way to the southern Outer Banks, through Manteo. On a normal day, when half the east coast isn’t migrating to the beach like…
Because I come from a family where we competed over everything – even going so far as to compete over who had the biggest french fry at McDonald’s and cheating in this contest by fusing two fries together into a mega frankenfry – it seemed appropriate to have two of the beaches we visited, those…
In preparation for our upcoming trip to Europe, Laura recommended that I get a selfie stick, so that we could take pictures of ourselves without actually having to socialize with people from another country. I decided to test out the selfie stick at the beach. Having a selfie stick doesn’t mean I’m a narcissist, right?…
After a rough late June and early July wher Laura was diagnosed with colitis, Laura was finally out of the hospital and recuperating. While Laura was going to stay at her mom’s house to get better, I took McKenna to the much less peaceful Abbott beach house for my family’s annual Outer Banks vacation. Since…
