Travel

Well, the best-laid plans did not come to pass. We got up a little bit late, and we could have attempted the bus ride into Paraguay, but we were worried that we would not have enough time as a buffer…

Just as I was finishing and logging off last night, the power to the whole suite went out. I think we overloaded the 1970’s electricity with our various electronic items we needed to charge overnight. Thankfully, the repair team was…

The alarm clock and wake up call wait for no one. It took us just about an hour to get ready this morning. Our strategy was to take just a small bag with us to Iguazu and keep the rest…

Today it was time to head to Uruguay! Mom and Gary finished packing up the convention items and I met them just before heading down to meet Stuart and Shirley who were joining us on the adventure. We took two…

Gary and I got to sleep in, but Mom had to be back downstairs to work on the conference again. Thank goodness it wasn’t that busy. Gary and I headed downstairs around 10:00 to see what needed to be done.…

All to soon the alarm went off and it was time to get dressed and head back downstairs. I was already in my suite in the nick of time and was pleased that my suit did not wrinkle in my…

This morning Gary and I set out for a half-day tour of Buenos Aires. Gary had taken the same tour when he was down here last year for the conference, but agreed to go with me so I made sure…

I awoke mid-flight on AA997 with the realization that my classic 2004 iPod was not playing music. I like to bring this iPod on the long flights since it contains my entire audio collection. But there it sat, with the…

I fought the alarm clock as long as I could, but finally took a shower and got dressed and headed out for the airport. Had I not slept too much, we probably could have grabbed some donuts on the way…