Tag Archive: Travel

Merry Christmas from the Land of Aloha

If you're reading this, chances are you've opened your Christmas gifts already. So here's a little lagniappe, if you will: a Merry Christmas article from the Aerie. In addition, you probably found a couple extras in your feed reader this morning: Turns out my update to WordPress 2.9 was apparently not quite as trouble-free as ...

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Aloha From Kaua’i!

Christmas greetings from Kaua'i!   We had a fairly uneventful trip, considering it's the height of Christmas travel season. We got up about 4am Monday morning, got to the airport right at 5:30 for our 6:30 flight to Minneapolis (MSP). The weather was foggy in Rapid City, so we ...

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The State of the Kestrel and of the Aerie

About 5 minutes ago, I tweeted, "I *want* to write, but I have nothing to write *about.* At least, nothing that anyone but me would want to read. Meh." About 3 minutes ago, I was reading Darren Rowse's latest update at ProBlogger. While my blogging empire isn't as expansive ...

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Odyssey Concluded

Welcome back to what is part 3 or 4 (maybe 5?) of our four-week journey last month from Rapid City to St. Louis to Los Angeles to Los Osos and ...

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Odyssey Continued

When last I left you, I was writing from Los Angeles (or thereabouts); however, I never related the story of getting there from Amarillo. And believe ...

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Quick Update

Dateline: Amarillo, TX.  It's been ~25 years since I last drove through Texas, and while this time, we're only traversing the panhandle from east to west, I'm still confident I didn't lose anything here to come back for. We finished up my son's deck on Sunday, despite having to start over (he had a small issue ...

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In case you miss me…

Mrs. Kestrel and I leave Thursday morning for 30-day “working vacation” to Illinois and thence to California. While I know there hasn’t been a lot of content of late, believe me when I say I’ve been clearing the mental cobwebs , and if I don’t get much of a chance to blog before Independence Day, ...

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On the Road Again

Saturday morning, Mrs. Kestrel and I, together with our middle son who lives here in Rapid City, will fly to Los Angeles, ...

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Hawai’i Calls!

First, why "Hawai'i" and not "Hawaii"? Simple: The Hawaiians (no apostrophe), native and officially, prefer the former. "When in Rome..." For me, it's a matter of respect. Alrighty then...now that's out of the way, what's the ...

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If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Chicago

Okay, I admit it: I'm a baaaaad blogger. I've known for a month I'd be out of town Tue - Thu to attend a supervisor conference in Chicago. I may have even referred ...

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