December, 2010 On December 2, 2010 I flew to Minneapolis and was met by Ned who had agreed to not only drive me to Zell, SD but also to bring an extra shotgun since I was flying commercial. We [...]
This trip had been planned for many months. Both Pat and I had been to France several times before, but never to Normandy to see the sites of the D-Day invasion. What we hadn’t planned on [...]
The occasion was my father’s 90th birthday. His actual birthday was on May 31st, but the celebration was June 5th. Not many people get to mark this milestone but in my father’s [...]
This was just a great (but short) 5 day vacation to Sonoma and the California wine country. On March 17 we left Chicago for San Francisco. We stayed in Healdsburg for 3 of the four nights and [...]