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I had been kicking around the idea of visiting the Presidential sites in Kentucky for a while, also hoping to incorporate a visit to the state capitol to ever-advance those pesky but oh-so-fun items on my eternal bucket list. I thought maybe I could hit Louisville during a trip to Florida and save Lexington for a planned road trip that will ultimately end in Arkansas. Then I thought – what the heck – why not just take a day or weekend journey to these cities that weren’t all that far awat to start with? So I did it. Dragging Christi along with me, I slid it in just before I was scheduled to take another – and much longer – road trip with my friend Bob. Read the rest of this entry »

My previous two days in Rome with Chris had been utterly exhausting and we had walked nearly the entire length of the city. My feet were achy and blistered and I could have slept for a day…but I wasn’t about to wimp out. Chris really showed his stamina as he reported to work on Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Fortunately I was spending this day with Sarah…and she was tired too. She had just returned from an exhausting weekend in the Marches of Italy. Read the rest of this entry »

I had already pretty much resigned myself to flying to New York to attend the April 18, 2009, Chiller Theatre show based on the celebrity guestlist – but if I had need a kicker to put me over the edge, it came late in the game when it was announced that KISS’ original drummer Peter Criss would be attending. Obviously anyone who knows me realized that I have been a huge KISS fan since the first grade (see my soapbox on my Big 7 bands), at which time I began collecting, idolizing, and listening to KISS records on a daily basis. So this was to be a thrill indeed. Read the rest of this entry »

Friday, April 3, 2009, was our last day in Guatemala and there were no scheduled events for this day. Earlier in the week, however, we were given some options of additional trips that could be taken. When I got ahold of the list of available trips, my eyes immediately focused on a trip just over the border into Honduras to visit the Copán Mayan ruins located there. Mostly this was the opportunity to step foot into another country. The price was quite high for Bob and I to do this, but once a good portion of our tour group jumped on the bandwagon, the price came drastically down.

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Jane Wyman has an incredible and illustrious career that included an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny Belinda, three Oscar nominations for The Yearling, The Blue Veil, and The Magnificent Obsession, the Walt Disney classic Pollyanna, a starring role in the Academy Award for Best Picture winner The Lost Weekend, and even a role in the Alfred Hitchcock film Stage Fright. After her retirement from the films, she even made a notable return in the early 1980′s in the primetime soap Falcon Crest. Read the rest of this entry »