One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
Hello again, blog friends. To anybody who read Part 1 of what I promised would be a two-part story about our adventure on Grand Cayman back in the spring, I apologize. Somehow, half a year has gone by since I wrote that post. If anybody is still curious about what we did (besides drinking all of …
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Welcome to Lisa and Jim's Caribbean Vacation 2017. This year's adventure took us to Grand Cayman. Why Grand Cayman? Because I wanted to go to Cuba, and Jim wanted to go to The Bahamas. After 27 years of marriage, we've learned to compromise. Occasionally. Grudgingly. After we've been going eyeball to eyeball for six months …
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To celebrate our anniversary a couple weeks ago, my husband and I drove up to Michigan's Upper Peninsula for a short vacation. We spent two days on Mackinac Island and then another day at Sault Ste. Marie and the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point. If you're planning a similar getaway, here are a …
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Hello from sunny St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. I wish. My husband and I spent last week there, but, against our better judgement, we returned home to reality (aka Wisconsin) on Saturday. Sniff. I would go back in a heartbeat, but since that's not going to happen anytime soon, I thought I would take a virtual …
Hola amigos. I would like to apologize to all of my loyal readers for my absence from the interwebs recently. (Hopefully you both found something else to read during my hiatus.)The reason I was MIA here: I took a trip South of the Border last week. (And by "South of the Border," I mean "Mexico." …
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