I’ll be back at some point. Not that I’m all that hard to find, but I don’t have much to say on here these days. So I’m just keeping the place open for a while.
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I’ll be back at some point. Not that I’m all that hard to find, but I don’t have much to say on here these days. So I’m just keeping the place open for a while.
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Off a bouncing loose ball, too.
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La Dominique Creperie (Philadelphia, PA) « VendrTV, posted with vodpod
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WILMINGTON, Del. – Time is both relative and absolute. When my flight from Los Angeles landed in suburban Baltimore at 7:00 this morning, it was 4:00 a.m. in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It was also 5:00 a.m. in Whitefish, Montana; 6:00 a.m. at Wrigley Field in Chicago; and 12:00 p.m. at the Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground [...]
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LOS ANGELES – Three signs that the trip is almost over: – The view out the window of my hotel room at LAX includes another hotel, multiple surface parking lots and an air cargo loading center. – I slept in an actual bed last night for the first time in a week. – I’m in [...]
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SAN JOSE, California – The sun is out here in the Bay Area, but I can’t help opening this post with a tinge of melancholy. California is the last of 17 states and my native District of Columbia that I’ve traveled through over the last seven days. While there are still 12 hours to go [...]
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COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont. – I really don’t have much to say tonight, because I’ve spent the whole day either taking pictures or reading. So go check out my Flickr page to see the pictures I took today and on previous days of the trip. You’ll find shots from just about everywhere I’ve been, and new [...]
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. – When I was debating whether to blog this trip, I had a hunch that a time would come when I just wouldn’t want to write. I think this night was the first such time. I feel that mainly because I don’t want to bore you with too many words that are [...]
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When I headed out this morning, I figured that my first destination would be the highlight of the day: a guided tour of Wrigley Field. As has happened to millions of other baseball fans over the years, I fell in love with the place when I visited it for the first time last season. The [...]
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