Thought I’d mention that this cruise ship fire wasn’t on our boat. And I’m darn happy about that.

Having given all sorts of caveat emptor disclaimers to the idea of going on the vacation cruises, I thought I should present something of the other side of the story. So, on the plus side

You get to visit a lot of places that would be more expensive to go see individually. Yes, it’s true that […]

Greg and I are off again, and so I’ll either blog more or less for the next week and a half. It sort of depends if I can find the time and don’t mind paying what the cruise ships charge for the internet access. This one ought to be kind of fun, so I hope […]

Kind of an odd Thanksgiving weekend. We were in the small town of Jean, Nevada on Thanksgiving Day for a meet-up with Greg’s folks, and in Las Vegas on Friday. We had been thinking in terms of this being a stay-at-home Thanksgiving, but on Monday, Greg caught the see-the-folks bug. I completely understand — I’m […]

We checked into the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago for a four-day weekend. Greg’s travel schedule and the whole jetsetter thing have their disadvantages, but then there are possibilities like this and you forget the bad stuff. It’s just for fun, based on finding a couple bargains on the airfare and hotel and on knowing […]

I’m not really looking forward to the next couple months. Listening to the news last night, it seems obvious that the next Supreme nominee is going to become a lightning rod for the entire culture war. If Bush nominates the kind of person I wish he would nominate — someone who is actually on the […]

There’s an old song I’ve heard in barbershop called “Lovely San Diego,” and I wish I could think of the lyrics now. Google searching hasn’t worked, and Greg-the-husband wouldn’t be any help, since he probably only remembers the off-color version of the lyrics that he came up with. (Don’t know why he always does that. […]

One of our friends responded to the slideshow by asking why there weren’t any pictures of me. Well,… oops. I forgot. There are pictures of me, of course, but none that quite make the cut, in my humble estimation. Like a lot of people, I don’t care for pictures with me in them. They’re annoying, […]

Okay, last mention of the trip before I get back to normal stuff. (I haven’t worried about it much because what is there to talk about? The Michael Jackson case? Give me a break.)
I finally made my way through all the photos for the British part of the trip (here’s the slideshow). Much better pictures […]

So what else do we know about Paris?
Well, it doesn’t photograph well. Or maybe it’s better to say that it doesn’t photograph right. All of the detail and the elaborate decoration and the views … it’s just not coming across in the photos. (Here’s my Paris slideshow, all the same.) So we know –

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