England

Some time soon, I will sit down and do this amazing trip more justice.  But for today, I am exhausted and so I offer only this photo gallery (with comments!) and a few random videos I uploaded to YouTube.
Enjoy.
Pictures Of England
Driving Through Bollington
White Nancy
Snow

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Honeymoon In Manchester

Richard and I have finally finished planning our much-delayed honeymoon and are now scheduled to depart in mid-March for England and then Spain.
The honeymoon itself was delayed due to the fact that we had out-of-state and out-of-country visitors in town for the wedding and wanted to spend time with them, since they’d traveled all that [...]

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You Can Never Go Home Again

Last post of the day, I swear.
When Richard’s family were over here last week, we had several very interesting discussions with them regarding whether or not they’d ever move back to England permanently.  For both his mother and stepfather (who live in a villa in Spain, but keep a house back in Cheshire) as well [...]

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Home

I’m home again, and it’s awfully quiet around here today with Richard gone. I dropped him off at the airport this morning, less than 12 hours after we touched down in Houston. So, in approximately 24 hours, he’ll have been in Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Houston, Detroit and finally Rochester. My poor boy is such [...]

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The Night Chicago Died

Okay, so Chicago didn’t die.  But kudos to you if you remember that song.  Anyway, I’m in a picture-posting mood, so here are some random pictures from our trip to Chicago.

View of the skyline from the Shedd Aquarium/Field Museum.  I love the saturated colors in this one.  It was cloudy almost the entire time that [...]

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Hola, mis amigos…

A short post from Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico…
I am sitting at an open air bar (which happens to have a computer with internet access), under a palapas, watching the Germany-Italy match, with two pina coladas sitting in front of me and, having just finished snorkeling in the reefs off Cozumel all afternoon, am in heaven.  [...]

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“You don’t have Luzianne?!?!?!?”

A short collection of my favorite quotes from Tom, my traveling partner for all of the lame business trips I have to take (including this week’s exercise in extreme patience):
1.  Yeah, you’ve got that short and stocky build.
2.  But you’re a woman!  (after I asked him if I could help him move a heavy box)
3.  Put [...]

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Erratum

On the plane to Denver, in the seats behind me, I overhear this conversation:
Daughter:  Mommy, if the plane crashed, would you save me?
Mother:  Of course I would, sweetheart!  I would do anything to save you!
Daughter:  Really?
Mother:  Really!  I spent three years in the New Jersey court system to save you.  After that, a plane crash [...]

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