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Category Archives: Travel
Chickens?!
As you know if you’ve read my bio or been following my blog for more than a month or so, I grew up on a farm in southern Indiana. We had cows – still do – and for a time … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Parenting, Travel
Tagged brother, chicken houses, chickens, cows, doug, family, farm, flies, fresh eggs, hogs, life learning, michigan resort, parenting, travel
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The Bridge Walk
It’s a tradition. Every year on Labor Day, pedestrians gather by the thousands to walk across the 5 mile span of the Mackinac Bridge. But that’s not what we did today. Instead, we joined a slightly smaller, if no less … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Photography, Travel, Writing, blogging, holidays
Tagged Ben, best beaches, bridge walk, canada, family, gogomain river, huron, ice cream, Labor Day, life learning, mackinac bridge, Maya, raber, tradition, travel
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1st Day
We’ve arrived in God’s area code! (I remember as a kid they used to sell t-shirts in Cedarville that said, “God’s area code is 906″.) The weather here is perfect. Bright sun and warm during the day, cool and … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Travel, holidays
Tagged family, god's area code, grand hotel, hessel bakery, Les cheneaux, life learning, mackinac bridge, Mackinac Island, resort, travel
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Heading West-ish
There is a great exchange in the movie “Last of the Mohicans” where Daniel Day Lewis, aka Hawkeye informs an English officer that he, his brother & father are not scouts for the British but are in fact heading West, … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged british accent, cuyahoga river, daniel day lewis, english officer, family, hawkeye, last of the mohicans, life learning, Michigan, pennsylvania, school year, scrubgrass township, stoney lonesome road, susquehanna river, travel, unschooling, upper peninsula, west
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Lincoln & me
In a previous life I think I must have known Abraham Lincoln. I’m only half-kidding. There is no other explanation for why, when I read about him, hear his speeches read aloud or see even the driest of documentaries having … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged 16th President, abraham lincoln, dinner party, eleanor of aquitaine, gettysburg address, habeus corpus, learning, life learning, lincoln, reincarnation, supreme court, unschooling
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Read All About It!
As you approach the entrance to the Newseum in Washington D.C., you walk by a long row of glass cases. Each of them contains the current front page of a newspaper from every state in the Union and several countries. … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged beheadings, boston american, dewey defeats truman, front pages, great war, headlines, jesse james, learning, life learning, mcelhany & bros, mme caillaux, naps, neosho times, newseum, newspapers, Red Sox, servia, times, travel, unschooling, Washington D.C.
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Living history
Museums are a big part of trips to D.C., but our favorite turned out not to be part of the Smithsonian, whose 19 buildings dominate the landscape around the National Mall. Instead, the place that captivated us, made us … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged 1986, axel springer verlag, berlin, berlin wall, charlottenstrasse, checkpoint charlie, east germany, education, gdr, graffiti, guard tower, learning, life learning, living history, newseum, the american sector, the zone, unschooling, Washington D.C., zimmerstrasse
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Impressions of D.C.
I’ll say this for Washington D.C. It is possibly the cleanest city I’ve ever been in, bar none. Maybe that’s because Congress is currently on vacation. Our almost three days there were filled with sightseeing – the museums, the monuments, … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, Learning, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged abraham lincoln, Ben, congress, disneyworld, grace coolidge, jerrold nadler, learning, life learning, lincoln bedroom, macro shots, Maya, photography, the capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, the Smithsonian, the Vietnam War Memorial, the White House, travel, unschooling, Washington D.C.
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Riding the rails
Before this summer the only time I’d ever taken Amtrak was the year after I graduated from college. I rode a train from Chicago to Indianapolis, and not 30 seconds after pulling out of the Chicago station, we stopped. … Continue reading
Posted in Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged airports, amtrak, Boston, chicago, d.c., indianapolis, life learning, New York, niagara falls, strip malls, train stations, trains, travel, union station, wuthering heights
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Gearing up as summer winds down
I kind of love the fact that as the rest of the world begins to trickle back home after summer vacations or sleepaway camps; as they begin to think about back to school shopping and test prep, we are thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life Learning, Travel, Unschooling
Tagged germany, Lake Huron, life learning, Mackinac Island, Michigan, the Les Cheneaux Islands, the Smithsonian, the White House, Torino, travel, Venice, Washington D.C.
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