Category: travel
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driving south
This morning Maggie and I are making the now-familiar drive to Brownsville, Tennessee for Maggie’s sister’s wedding. Brownsville is the family stomping grounds for my mother-in-law, Jane. In fact, my in-laws live in the house that Jane grew up in. While I’m not sure we’d ever choose to live in this small southern town, I…
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back from vacation
Coming home from vacation is always rough, especially when it’s a really good vacation as the past week was for us. It helped that for our four hour flight from Portland last night we had the emergency aisle too ourselves (leg room!). So we stretched out, read our books, snacked on fresh Oregon blueberries and…
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portland (as seen through a camera phone)
Having a great time in Portland. So far the hostel has been a great choice.
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vaction in oregon
I’m finishing up some last minute packing before going to NC3’s Sunday service. Following the service I have lunch and a meeting with many of NC3’s leaders and then a (hopefully) quick drive to the airport to make my 4:00 flight to Portland (via Denver and Salt Lake City, ugh). I’m not sure what blogging…
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advice please: staying in a hostel
The readers of this blog have come through with some good suggestions about breakfast cereals and surviving a family reunion. I return with another question. On Sunday I fly to Portland where I’ll be staying at the HI-Portland Northwest Hostel. Maggie and my sister will be arriving on Wednesday and we’ll upgrade to a hotel…
David W. Swanson 