Fri 12-Aug-2016 Brazil, Travel |
Andrew, Emily, and I took a day to be tourists. We headed to Sugarloaf to take the gondola up to the mountains. We were so lucky as the weather was just beginning to clear when we set out and beautiful by the...
Thu 11-Aug-2016 Brazil, Travel |
Andrew and Emily went off in the morning to watch a beach volleyball session. They particularly enjoyed the first game as Brazil was playing so the audience was really in to it. They report that the view from...
Wed 10-Aug-2016 Brazil, Travel |
Overnight the weather became windy, rainy, and quite cool. Racing was cancelled for the day, causing a lot of confusion for later days of racing. When racing was rescheduled, the tickets did not just slide...
Mon 8-Aug-2016 Brazil, Travel |
Our trip to Rio for the Olympic Games was challenging, overwhelming, exciting, hot, confusing, delicious, surprising, nail biting, and never disappointing. The first challenge of the trip was the long plane...
Mon 20-Jun-2016 Indiana, Travel |
Today we had to drive a bit on I-90, but left it east of Cleveland to head down I-71 to reach Rt 30 that we would take across Ohio. This route once again avoided traffic allowing us to drive on nearly empty,...
Sat 18-Jun-2016 Massachusetts, Travel |
After leaving Savoy Mountain State Park, we stopped briefly at the Central Shaft of the Hoosac tunnel. When the tunnel was originally dug, from about 1850 to 1875, the work was accomplished from both ends....
Fri 17-Jun-2016 Massachusetts, Travel |
Mount Greylock is the tallest mountain in Massachusetts and can be climbed by car. This morning we drove up, a slow, steep climb and took a 2.5 mile loop hike around the summit — Lookout trail to Hopper...
Thu 16-Jun-2016 Massachusetts, Travel |
We planned a quiet day with a number of stops. First, we headed down the Mohawk Trail into North Adams to stop at my Aunt Leone’s house that I visited in the 1950s. It was still there with changes. Then...
Wed 15-Jun-2016 Massachusetts, Travel |
We took a short drive across 90 and north on 91 to the Mohawk Trail (aka Route 2). Our destination was the Savoy Mountain State Forest campground where we hoped to spend four nights before heading home. The...
Mon 13-Jun-2016 Massachusetts, Travel |
From Plymouth we headed north and west — not quite sure where we would spend the night. After some grocery shopping we decided on Wells State Park, partly because the traffic on I-90 was so slow making...
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