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The Chirping of Friday Crickets
I’d hoped to post a real blog entry today, on the way home, after working on it now and then during the week. Yeah: via the WordPress app on my Blackberry, and the device’s...
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Road-Seen
[Image: “Little Red Riding Hood,” copyright Amanda Gray; all rights reserved. See original at her blog, what now] From whiskey river: Cutting Loose for James Dickey Sometimes from sorrow, for no...
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Getting There and Finding Here
[Photo: “From Here to There,” by user “allaboutgeorge” on Flickr. (Used under a Creative Commons license.) The installation (called “HERETHERE” for obvious reasons) straddles the boundary between...
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Upcoming: A New Series or Two about Taking Off
As you may know if you’ve crossed paths with me here or elsewhere in the last year, I sorta-kinda retired in July, 2018, after 39+ years in computer-related stuff (principally programming)… and then...
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Taking Off #2: Questions (and Ultimately, Answers)
Map: thumbnail of our itinerary, so to speak, as of today. Click on it to see a larger, more zoomed-in map which more clearly separates out the destination markers. As more or less novice...
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Taking Off #3: Weather
[Image: monthly weather averages for the 30 proposed destination cities in our 2020 “EuroTour.” (Details below.) Click for a larger version.] As The Missus and I think about where in Europe we’d like...
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Taking Off #4: Glimpses of an Itinerary
[Map: zeroing in (maybe) on a vicinity for destination #1; you can skip the brief introduction and skip right to the details if you want.] Over the couple of weeks since I last posted about...
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Taking Off #8: Status, January 2020
[Image: “Europa, 1538 / Pomponio Mela”; found it via the Flickr account of the National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España), and used here under a Creative Commons license. (Thank you!)...
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Taking Off #8b: Status (Updated), January 2020
Yesterday, I posted (rather at length, I’m afraid) about some of the thoughts and activities recently percolating below the public surface of our plan to spend six-ish months in Europe, starting at...
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Taking Off #9: Status (Updated Again), January 2020
[As before, if you want to see a larger and more legible version of the chart, you can either (1) maximize your browser window, and then click on the version above; or (2) view a PDF version of it....
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