Category: Travel


Really fun trip

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January 8, 2012

When I was married to my first husband, we went on a fantastic vacation with his grand parents. We flew first class from the East Coast to Hawaii. The trip was very long, but since we went first class we were very comfortable. That was the only vacation I’ve ever had where we were in the first class section of the airplane. I can’t imagine a trip that long in the coach section of a plane. As far as I’m concerned every flight that goes overseas like that should have ALL first class seats!

Anyway, what was so nice about the trip was that his grandparents had vacationed there many times before and they took us around the islands as our tour guides. They showed us the best local Restaurants and Coffee Shops, and we stayed in the best Hotels on the islands. We were so impressed at how friendly everybody seemed to be, and we wondered if it was a genuine friendliness or simply “part of the job.” I’d like to think that it was genuine friendliness, but that is something I’d definitely want more information on if we ever decided to move there (which is a huge fantasy of mine!) Living on a tropical island is definitely something I’d love to do!

 

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I’d love to go to London

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November 28, 2011

My kids had the opportunity to visit London with their father several years ago. I was so excited for them, but jealous at the same time. My family’s roots are in London, and I still have relatives there that I would love to meet and visit. My fantasy trip to London would include staying in some historic London Apartments that are clean and safe but near the touristy attractions like Big Ben and the Tower of London.

I don’t even know enough about London to know if there ARE any short term rental London Apartments available near those types of places! So I would definitely be wanting some of my cousins to show us around and take us to their favorite local places that are NOT the usual tourist traps, but we’d want to see the famous tourist things as well. We’d probably have to stay there a couple of weeks to take it all in. Sadly, with the economy the way it is, and our personal financial struggles getting in the way, our trip to London may just always be an unfulfilled dream. Wouldn’t it be nice if our ship came in and it was the Queen Elizabeth II?

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I wish we had a common currency

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November 12, 2011

I’ve only been out of the United States twice in my life, and both times were to Canada. Back in the early 1980′s my hubby and I went to Old Quebec City for the Patriot’s Day weekend in April. Boy was some cold there, let me tell you what! We stayed in a quaint hotel for two nights and we toured the old city. If the weather had been warmer, I’m sure that we would have enjoyed it much more than we did. Fortunately for us, our credit cards were honored everywhere we went so we did not have to deal with any worries around the foreign currency exchange rates and procedures.

When Jason was living in The Netherlands two years ago I gave him one of my credit cards to use so that we would not have to deal with any form of international money transfer if he needed money. He did use it a couple of times, and I saw that there was a small surcharge on the credit card bill for the exchange rate, but it was all good; the convenience was well worth it. Sometimes I just wish that there was a common currency world-wide so we didn’t have to bother our “pretty little heads” over things like that. That sounds lazy, I know.

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Moving South

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September 15, 2011

Today we heard about some management level changes that might affect my store. They have hired a new District Manager and he will be moving to Virginia from Philadelphia. With the cost of airfare and the amount of time lost going through airport security checkpoints and then waiting in airport concourses for late flights, missed flights and bumped flights, it does not make economic sense to have middle level management travel over such large territories. So they are making the districts smaller and moving people around.

We don’t really know much about this guy. He did come to the store with a small management team about a month ago. It was an unannounced visit, but that never really bothers us at the store. We keep it really clean and well stocked every day. There’s no need to run around the day before a visit from corporate spiffing things up.

The new District Manager has already talked with Virginia Movers to help get his furniture and household goods loaded and moved from Philadelphia to his new condo in Fairfax. I was hoping to get a chance to talk to him before he made that decision. I know good people locally who could have helped him find a condo and also refer him to better Virginia Moving Companies.

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The beautiful Ozarks

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August 12, 2011

Susan was telling me that her parents are thinking about retiring to the Ozark mountains. They said that they are hiring a Table Rock real estate agent to show them some lake front property that they want to build their retirement cottage on. I love the idea of retiring to a cottage on a peaceful lake, but I wonder if the winters will be too severe for them.

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