We’re back!! To Costa Rica that is. We were going to come for our winter trip but we ended up postponing it until now. We had a long but uneventful travel day. The layover in Dallas was short but we had a little time since our first flight landed early. The drive to the Arenal …
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Savannah on Sunday
Hello readers, I still haven’t figured out why my posts say they have failed to upload when they have. Hopefully I will be able to keep the resending of emails to a minimum, thanks Bob for the count of 38 emails the other day. Today we went to the History Museum and the Railroad Museum. …
Sorry about the emails!
I am having trouble with the app for WordPress. For those who subscribe you got an email each time the post on my phone tried to upload. Every time I hit retry, every time I opened the app and probably each time I just thought about trying again. I’m very sorry about that. I’m hoping …
Testing out travel insurance!
Hello faithful readers!!! it’s been awhile! Our vacation this winter was postponed into January after I changed ambulance services. I now work for AMR in Independence, Iowa. They are contracted to do the 911 and they do transfers out of Buchanan County Health Center. Originally we were looking at being back by Christmas and we …
Winter 2023 Vacation
Hello All: Many of you know that Bill and I were supposed to go to Costa Rica for our winter vacation. A couple days before we were supposed to leave, my grandpa got sick and had to be hospitalized. There were no beds in the area, so he had to be moved to St. Louis …
Lost Island Theme Park and Lost Island Waterpark
On Friday 6/29/22 Emily and I traveled the short distance from my house to the New $100 million Lost Island Theme Park! If you say amusement park around some you will be corrected, as this park has a theme not just amusements. I have only been to one other theme park, Adventureland also here in …
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The Black Hawk Creek
One of the things we enjoy locally in the Cedar Valley is traveling down the Black Hawk Creek. Last Saturday Emily, my friend Kevin and I took our maiden voyage for the summer. The Black Hawk Creek runs through both Waterloo and Cedar Falls among other places, so it is easy to access. This is …
Couple of things
Since I’ve been home I have been talking with people about the trip and one thing came up yesterday about flights that everyone who’s traveling needs to keep an eye on. The airlines all have different rules for carryons. My friend back here is actually going to Belize in August and she is flying United, …
Blog Update Information
All: You probably all got some posts from me today about out trip to Peru 4 years ago. Bill and I have told several people that all of the information about our Peru trip is on the blog. I discovered today that I didn’t have the blog when we were in Peru. We did updates, …
Belize City and ATM
We made it to STL without issue. We are going to start planning and researching for our December trip soon, talks have already begun. We have been applying the things we have learned from our travels and hopefully we will make good choices. If anyone would like to tag along or meet up somewhere exotic …
Traveling with Emily! 