Category: travel
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Florida Railroad Museum
I found a museum not far from our house that also operates a short train ride. I took Toren one day to check it out. Here we are exploring the museum (it’s an old sleeper car): Exploring the other cars: And enjoying the train ride:
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California Trip – day 7 – Page Museum and LA Science Center
It was science day on our trip. Our first stop was the Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits. When we arrived, parking was limited because they were filming a TV show there – Trophy Wife?!? I’d never heard of it, and I wasn’t really all that interested, but we watched them film a couple…
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California Trip – day 6 – down day
Debi’s first conference ended on the evening of the 8th and her second began in the afternoon of the 9th, so she and Toren spent the morning of the 9th swimming. By the time Toren woke up from his nap, it was too late to go anywhere in LA traffic, so we went swimming again…
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California Trip – day 5 – Riley’s Farm and Heart Rock
We headed out of Anaheim again on the 8th. Toren has never really spent any time on a farm. We visited a milk cattle operation once, but Toren is growing up in the city. I thought a farm might be rather novel for him. A recommendation on red tricycle suggested Riley’s Farm in Oak Glen.…
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California Trip – day 4 – Sturtevant Falls and Reese’s Retreat
Debi’s conference started on the 7th and I had no intention of going to evil Disney. Instead, Toren and I once again took advantage of California’s hills and did some hiking. Our first hike was to Sturtevant Falls: Here’s a video I took of the “falls”: Given the time of year, they aren’t really falls.…
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California Trip – day 3 – Encino and Anaheim
I have relatives who live in the greater LA area. We arranged to meet up with them for lunch on Sunday in Encino. We arrived a little early just to make sure we didn’t get stuck in traffic and played in a park for a while. Lunch was great. It’s always nice catching up with…
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California Trip – day 2 – San Diego
If you followed the previous post closely, you probably noticed that Debi’s conference was in Anaheim but we spent the first night in San Diego. That’s because I know someone in San Diego who runs a Humanist group and she arranged to have me speak to her group about my book. That’s what I did…
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California Trip – day 1 – San Diego
One of the luxuries of being on sabbatical is that I can pretty much take a trip whenever I want. Debi had a conference in Anaheim (at the Anaheim Convention Center about a block away from Disneyland) in early October and I had some frequent flyer miles. That meant Debi’s work would cover her airfare,…
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Road Trip – day 29 (the long drive east)
There isn’t much to report for the last day of our nearly month-long vacation. We left Dallas around 8:30 and drove almost straight through to our house (we stopped for food and gas). We could have broken this up as we had time, but there wasn’t anything we wanted to see more than we wanted…
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Road Trip – day 28 (Texas)
From where we spent the night (in West Texas), we drove to Dallas, crossing a big chunk of Texas on the way. I’ve flown into Texas and driven through parts of it (East, North, and far West Texas), but this was the first time I’d driven through oil country. It was… Interesting. It smelled like…