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Belated, abbreviated vacationblogging: Coyote Gulch

Posted on 9/21/2011 by dave

Way back in June, after my spectacular collapse at the Steamboat Marathon, Greta, Nora and I embarked on a series of day hikes that are way too cool not to chronicle here. However, in the interest of getting this done, … Continue reading →

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Vacationblogging 2010: Now, with fewer photographs!

Posted on 8/15/2010 by dave

I’m sitting on an airplane taking advantage of in-flight wifi as I mull over the past six weeks away from home. We started with a week in Kalaloch, enjoying the beautiful Washington coast. Then we spent a month in Olympia, … Continue reading →

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Vacationblogging 2010: Kalaloch Summer

Posted on 7/18/2010 by dave

You know you’ve arrived in Washington when you look out your airplane window and see this: However, even though we arrived two weeks ago, that was just about the only view I had of Rainier until last Thursday. That’s because … Continue reading →

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Mount Rogers Hike: The trailhead

Posted on 4/23/2007 by dave

I spent the weekend on the best hike I’ve ever done in the Appalachians. We started near the foot of Mount Rogers, in the southern part of Virginia: The weather was beautiful for the entire trip. Plenty of open meadows … Continue reading →

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Vacationblogging 2006, part 3

Posted on 7/23/2006 by dave

As I sit here in the lobby of the Holiday Inn in rainy Bangor, Maine, I get the vague sense that this town has something to do with Paul Bunyan. Anyhoo, the Maine section of our trip has finally come … Continue reading →

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Vacationblogging 2006, part 2

Posted on 7/20/2006 by dave

I’ve just finished reading David Foster Wallace’s essay “Consider the Lobster” from the book of the same name. Under the auspices of a trip to the Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace spends most of the essay discussing whether it’s ethical to … Continue reading →

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Vacationblogging 2006

Posted on 7/17/2006 by dave

If you watch any American road trip movie, you know that driving across America is a quirky journey on backroads through towns full of fascinating characters. This, of course, is a lie. Traveling across America, for most of us, involves … Continue reading →

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Heading out on vacation!

Posted on 7/13/2006 by dave

This year’s family vacation has no coherent theme. While last year, we could tell people we’d be going on a grand tour of the southwest USA, this year, things are different. I’ve resorted to selective description: Q: So, you doing … Continue reading →

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Vacationblogging: Continued

Posted on 8/7/2005 by dave

Los Angeles, California I’m slowly catching up to the present of our vacation. Monument Valley, that site of all those great Westerns, is actually on Navajo land. The tribe has a different approach to showing off its national monuments than … Continue reading →

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Yet more vacationblogging

Posted on 8/2/2005 by dave

Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas. Yes, we’re in Vegas, but just for one night. We thought we’d stop in Disneyland for grown-ups before we headed to the real Disneyland tomorrow. But right now, I want to write a little bit more … Continue reading →

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More vacationblogging

Posted on 7/30/2005 by dave

It’s sunrise at Monument Valley, on the Utah-Arizona border. The sun comes up behind the monuments, silhouetting them in a beautiful orange glow. We’re staying a Goulding’s lodge, which elevated itself from a struggling trading post to a tourist mecca … Continue reading →

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Vacationblogging

Posted on 7/18/2005 by dave

We’re heading into serious vacation blogging season. In less than a week I’ll be in the canyons of Utah, exploring the majestic geological formations created by millennia of erosion and movements in the earth’s crust creations of God [this assertion … Continue reading →

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