Category: travel
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Five (or so) Fascinating Facts About Vieques
This is our last full day on the island. Yesterday we rented a Jeep and drove all over the island, stopping at one gorgeous, white sand beach after another to snorkel or just sit and read. Today’s plan is some pool time and then a trip to the W’s spa, then dinner at Mix here…
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I Have Not Died From Scuba Yet, But The Week is Still Young
We’ve been in Puerto Rico about three days now (four if you count the travel day) and there’s one thing that’s become evident: waterboarding is a truly excellent form of torture, as those things go. I can say that because we had our third day of scuba diving today. I probably drank less of the…
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Hotel Crashing: The Venetian, Las Vegas
Did you know that the Phantom of the Opera is playing at the Venetian in Vegas? If you’re staying at the hotel, you definitely do. Because it’s everywhere. The music in the elevators? Phantom. The music in the lobby? Phantom. The welcoming card in the bedroom? Phantom. We’ve stayed in quite a few places in…
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Las Vegas: Exactly Like Venice
I’ll go ahead and kill the suspense: Yes, I actually finished the Las Vegas Rock N Roll half. No, I did not die. Or puke. Or crap myself. And I did it in 2 hours, 23 minutes, which is four minutes better than my previous half marathon also called, “When Chicago Froze Over in May.”…
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I Bet It’s Exactly Like ‘Under the Sea’ – CSI Edition
I’m halfway through my online scuba lessons and I’m becoming very, very worried. We’re taking online scuba certification classes, with plans to do the actual dive portion in Puerto Rico in December. All of this is to prepare us for diving in the Great Barrier Reef next year. I am, as you may have noticed,…
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Run Review: Run for the Water 5k, Austin, Texas
I’m back! OK, what did I miss? I mean, Kim and Kris are still happy young newlyweds, right? And Jessica Simpson is totally not preggers, right? And Rick Perry gave an amazingly awesome speech in New Hampshire that’s going to help him regain the top of the polls, right? Oh, so…..none of those things are…
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Food Porn: Juan in a Million’s The Don Juan
Even as you read this, I am hurtling through the sky, heading to God’s Country, aka Texas. Specifically, Austin. I got my bachelor’s degree in Austin at the fine University of Texas. Took me seven years. And, if you’ve ever been to Austin, you know why it took me seven years. Why would you hurry…