Tag Archive: getaway

Continuing a Christmas Tradition

Clark Griswold - Christmas

This Christmas might be one of the rare occasions where I’m actually looking more forward to seeing others open the presents I gave them rather than the presents that were given me. I think the little boy inside me is finally growing up a little. One of the things I had planned to do for…

Gearing Up For New Hampshire

I can’t believe I’ll be leaving already in a mere week. I’ll be prepping Hidalgo (my ride) with a wash and wax this weekend, then start some early packing. I get home from work around 9PM the night before, so I’ll have to hit the ground running early next morning to make good time. Originally…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

Mini Christmas Tree with Soldier and Train

The decorations are up, and the Chipmunks are back on my iPod playlist. It’s that time of year again, so you know what that means: time to plan another early Christmas getaway! :-D Last year I traveled to Stockbridge in Massachusetts in a quest to recapture the Christmas spirit, something I hadn’t felt in a…

A Whrrly Weekend at Lake George

Last weekend wasn’t really meant to be a getaway, just an excuse to get my ride to a service center that wouldn’t rip me off, then take a short trip to Lake George in the Adirondacks for the weekend rather than jet 200 miles back home. One thing I’ve learned from this trip: don’t go…

So I guess I didn’t need a girlfriend to put up with whining after all.

It seems my car is doing plenty of whining all on its own. After I got it back from the service center in Kingston and started it up the next morning in Lake George, I heard this wailing noise while it idled, almost like a wraith was trapped somewhere inside the engine. After doing some…

Taking a vacation!

To get my car serviced. Ok, it’s like this: I would rather pass a gallstone the side of Mount Everest than have the local dealerships here touch my beautiful ride. It’s now driven 60,000 miles, so it’s time to get the spark plugs and all the belts replaced, a job that I just don’t trust…

Let us never speak of this decade again

What do we even call 2000-2009 anyway? The Zeros? The Single Digits? “The decade that just piled on with so much crap that not even the smelliest crap could have crapped as much crap as this crappy decade crapped on me?” Well, whatever. Good riddance to 2009 and that whole era of loveless crapiness. I…

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