2023.06.30 – 07.04 Ft. Walton Beach & Destin, Florida Ft Walton Beach / Destin Fort Walton Beach and Destin, Florida is one of our favorite places to go hang out on the Gulf Coast. It is a day’s drive from home. The beach is pristine. The water is beautiful, warm, and relaxing. The food is…
Google Maps
2023.06.29 Google Maps Car Have you ever been driving and see a Google Maps car (or some other online mapping service) drive by? While driving home on a warm June afternoon, I spotted the Google Maps car heading the same direction I was going. This has happened to me probably twenty or twenty-five times that…
Willmar Trip
2023.06.04 – 08 “Work” trip to Minnesota Audra and I often travel for our jobs. Most of the time, we can travel together. We always take full advantage of every trip we take. On this trip, I had to go to the headquarters of my company to conduct training for new drivers. I work for…
Our Friend Chuck
Charles Gene “Chuck” Cornelison Rest in Peace 1971.04.14 – 2023.05.05 In the early evening on May 5th, 2023, we received a frantic call from our dear friend, Amy. Audra answered the phone, and I could hear something was very wrong. All I could her was “We LOST CHUCK!” Audra put her on speaker phone, and…
2023.04.14 – 16 Ft. Worth with Friends
Day 1—April 13, 2023 OKC A few months before this trip, Chuck and MaryAnn and Audra and I went to Ft Worth from Oklahoma City on the Amtrak. We left Friday morning and arrived in Ft. Worth about 2:30 p.m. We had a blast and thought it would be a great trip to do…
2023.03.17 – 19 OKC Trip
2023.03.17—Blake Shelton Concert This weekend had all the promises of being a fabulous weekend. Our plans were to go to Oklahoma City (OKC) on Friday afternoon with Chet and Amy, meeting up with Chuck and MaryAnn for dinner and then to see Blake Shelton at the Paycom Center in downtown OKC. We are with awesome…
Bash the Winter Blues-Europe Edition Days 8 & 9 Frankfurt Follies
Day 8—March 3, 2023 Frankfurt, Germany Time to head back to Frankfurt for the last couple of days of our adventure. We took an Uber from the hotel to the Paris Est to catch the ICE train back to Germany. When we arrived at the train station, we were eating breakfast at the restaurant in…
Bash the Winter Blues-Europe Edition Days 5 – 7 Paris Promenade
Day 5—February 28, 2023 Frankfurt, Germany / Paris, France On the morning of the fifth day, we boarded a Lufthansa flight in Warsaw bound for Frankfurt. We were scheduled to get on a train to Paris where we would stay a few days before heading back to Frankfurt for a couple of days to close…
Bash the Winter Blues Europe Edition: Days 2 – 4-Lublin Look-Around & Warsaw Wandering
Day 2—February 25, 2023 Lublin, Poland Our first full day in Poland was exciting. Neither of us had ever been in Poland, although it was always on the bucket list. Audra was here visiting colleagues and seeing the operations of the relief efforts for the war in Ukraine. I had the whole day to explore…
Bash the Winter Blues Europe Edition: Day 1-London Layover
Day 1—February 24, 2023 London, England & Lublin, Poland Before we left Jekyll, we wanted to get one more sunrise on the beach. It was stunning, as usual. We grabbed some breakfast and headed towards the airport. We had about a 6-hour drive to the airport in Charlotte. Our flight to London did not leave…