Traveling Laughs

    The Roomette. Those stairs lead to the upper bunk we can neither access, one of us not bendy enough, the other too fluffy. We're dealing with an interesting scenario. Soon we are to...

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Early this morning one of my beloved cousins phoned. Such a happy way to begin a day—right up until he posed the most difficult question I’ve been asked in a year. Frankly, the last year re...

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  Our condo is right behind Waterworks Park, upper left Levee Drive. That’s what we call it. The one-way, less than 4ish block route ends only ½ block from our condo building and skirts ...

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“Tow!” Via texts, phone calls and hallways the cry ricochets throughout our condo building situated alongside the Mississippi River in Winona MN. After watching the river freeze over the...

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Looking upriver from the walking path in front of our condo Welcome to the 2nd installment of my series A LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Today I focus on the river itself.  The ...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2020/07/a-love-affair-with-mississippi-river_16.html

Aw. Welcome to our new home circa 1969! George and I have been married for 50 years. Mostly blissful, as it said on our 50th wedding anniversary party cake.   For 46 of those years we l...

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For the sake of wonder, frustration and HOLY COW!, years ago I began snapping phone photos of surprising things we by happenstance travel behind on the highway. Well, “travel behind” a...

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Many retirees are booked solid with volunteer work and babysitting, sometimes raising grandchildren, toting them from here and there via sundry car seats and strollers. Or their dance car...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2020/02/retiree-versus-business-person-travel.html

After my Great Went-Septic Appendix Eruption in 2017. A recent post by bloggers Dan and Cassie Cramer got me to thinking about all the times I’ve traveled sick. Or sickly. Or feeling...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2020/02/for-better-or-for-worse-traveling-life.html

When I had no gray hair and our kiddos were young rather than their current 50+ and mid forties, our good neighbors and swell friends sold their house to move to a larger one a town over. We ...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2017/02/beatufiul-day-for-neighbor-wont-you-be.html

For the greater part of a recent two-hour flight I studied what appeared to be perfectly placed hair spikes on the precise crown of the back of a man’s head. (Spike Dude) Using the pinch-meth...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2015/03/whiling-away-while-up-and-away.html

READING CODES: TWEETS Texts EMAILS Phone Whiskey __________________ What a great plan: American Airlines Flight 2315 (which was of course Envoy also sort of known as American Eagl...

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Photo by Scott Robinson https://www.flickr.com/photos/clearlyambiguous/19243890/ Here’s the thing about staying out of the skies for a couple years: you get rusty. Stupid rusty, thereby m...

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This week my business travel plans have been so flexible I’ve gone nowhere. That seemingly never ending “wintry mix” (read ICE!) keeps hanging around my driving destination causing my ongo...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2013/04/making-plans-hahahahaha.html

Although I’m no longer flitting around the country like a “fart in a whirlwind”, as my grandma used to say (for real, she said that), I still do my ample share of trekking between Illinois...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2013/03/dont-mess-with-system-that-works.html

Recently a dear male friend of ours underwent fairly long-term radiation therapy. He said he could finally identify with the hideousness of hot flashes since his radiation caused not only bou...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2013/01/hunka-hunka-burnin-bod.html

Between business and leisure, solo travel and highway boogieing with my spouse, we put a lot of miles on our car this year, including a round-trip journey from the Chicago suburbs to Albuquerque ...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2012/10/oh-things-we-saw.html

Super Eight Logo After my September 4 post about my unhappy Super 8 stay (Whaaaa!), a few of you  encouraged me (YAY, and thank you!) to report the incident. So I sent a short note to Supe...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2012/09/super-8-update-poet-and-know-it.html

No matter how cheap economical or over-priced luxurious a hotel, it’s the little things that stick in my brain. Things like a sensible clock, a variety of pillows, a heating/air conditionin...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2012/09/dear-hoteliers-its-little-things-story.html

I stare at my monitor through zombie eyes. Planning a multi-leg trip on a budget sucks the life out of one's brain.There are a gajillion inroads to choose from. Expedia, Kayak, Priceline, jus...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2012/04/reservation-roulette-travel-planning-on.html

When I think back on all the souvenirs I've purchased on vacation, or as What-did-you-bring-me? business trip "gifts", I sail through a variety of responses. I am lucky to have experienced so m...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2012/03/when-in-rome-or-minnesota-souvenir.html

A clever chap’s blog just fired me up. Andy T. Le Peau, associate publisher for editorial at InterVarsity Press , posted a tongue-in-cheek speculation as to how it might look if publishers...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2012/02/all-together-now-what-about-fees.html

Last week, we purchased a new car for hubby. Well, new to us. It had 15,000 miles on it, which put the make, model and year we at long last narrowed our choices down to, in a range we could affo...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2012/02/when-small-things-matter-or-should-they.html

I received an email from American Airlines enticing me with a come-on that says, "Been there. Done that." It's a chance to win one of three trips I have on my bucket list. I know this becaus...

http://travelinglaughs.blogspot.com/2012/01/on-bucket-lists-and-contests.html

Feel it? Sometimes, we temporarily need to let go of a few Good Things in order to handle the rest of the Good Things—and a few rocky ones as well.  Alas, my TravelingLaughs blog posts...

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