Maine Trip 2019: Day 7, 8 & 9 — Coastal Roads and the Henry Family
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 Before I get to our Friday road trip down Main State Roads 3 and 1 to Portland, I need to address […]
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Maine Trip 2019: Day 5 & 6 –Acadia National / Mount Desert Island / Bar Harbor
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25 There is an admirable “new can still look old and classy” style on the Travel & Tourism side of Maine. It is […]
Maine Trip 2019: Day 3 & 4 — Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park
MONDAY, SEPT. 23 (Ah… a license plate that ends in “XL” … as in X-tra Loads-of-Fun!) We’ve had a long-held family debate about whether it […]
Maine Trip 2019: Day 2 — Boston (Strong)
We awoke in Boston having actually slept in, ready for coffee downstairs at the hotel-affiliated Starbucks. It satisfied. But by 9:45, we were already en […]
Maine Trip 2019: Day 1 — Boston
In the Summer of 1995, I spent a week in Bar Harbor, Maine, with my parents and a woman I was seeing at the time […]
New Zealand — Days 8,9,& 10 — Queenstown, NZ’s “Aspen, CO”
Before we get to our amazing “South Island” adventure, there is somebody you need to know. His name is something I’m sure very friendly, but […]
New Zealand — Days 5 & 6 — Wellington, the Nation’s Capitol
On Thursday evening, we arrived in New Zealand’s Capitol City, Wellington. As we cabbed from the airport to our hotel in the city center, Erin […]
New Zealand: Day 4 & 5 — Napier, the Country’s Coastal “Art Deco” Capitol
Before I tell you about our time in Napier, I think you might find some of the news we’re finding in New Zealand’s newspapers very […]
Todd and Erin Visit “The Hobbit Shire” — New Zealand, Day 3
Have you ever visited the set of a movie destined to become a classic? Or perhaps visited the set of a series of classic films […]
Todd and Erin Go to NEW ZEALAND — Days 1 and 2
The anticipation to see New Zealand began literally 10 months ago. I was talking to [my wife] Erin, who expressed some interests in celebrating her […]