pen4hire on July 20th, 2010

Continuation of Rushed Road Trip,  about a quick trip from Arizona to California. Good friend Susan Lanier Graham writes about WOW moments at Wander with Wonder. Here’s what made us go WOW! on this short road trip. Just keep your eyes open, and you will find it too. (A puzzle, a view, a movie star, [...]

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pen4hire on July 13th, 2010

Travel Tuesday We drove two days to get there, stayed two days and drove two days back home. Roughly 1800 miles, Ken says. Definitely not the ideal vacation and certainly not the classic wandering road trip–but a mini reunion with beloved relatives made it worthwhile. And even on a short trip, we make discoveries.

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pen4hire on May 25th, 2010

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pen4hire on January 12th, 2010

Reasons to travel to Lake Tahoe.

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pen4hire on December 22nd, 2009

Travel Tuesday This post is the promised part two of our Thanksgiving excursion to San Diego. (Part One — San Diego’s Gas Lamp District and Space Ship in Gila Bend are here). After a few days  in the Gas Lamp District of San Diego, we moved to one of the two new hotels in Liberty [...]

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pen4hire on December 14th, 2009

A trip to San Diego finds everything old is new again.

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