Prior to retirement, DOS and I used every single holiday such as Memorial Day for a long weekend or longer international trip. Since we’ve retired, however, we often don’t travel on the holiday weekends, as we can travel at less…
Memorial Day 2021
This post is in honor of our Veteran’s who gave their life in defending our freedoms. Our Church cemetery property has a Fallen Crosses exhibit each year honoring all of the Florida service people killed in the line of duty…
Memorial Day weekend and still without a dishwasher: Thanks Home Depot!
As a bit of departure from my blog, I am posting about a problem we have had getting our KitchenAid dishwasher delivered from Home Depot, which we ordered on April 19th via their online store. We have not received the…
Travel home from Mendoza
I’m jumping around a bit from the last post where we were mountain and wine touring in Mendoza, Argentina, but we’ve been quite busy since we got back. One of the reasons we like going to South America in ‘our’…
Mendoza Wine Touring 2018 – Day 2
We started our second and last day of wine touring thru the Luján de Cuyo region of Mendoza. Like yesterday, we would tour two wineries, followed by a late lunch at a third winery. Our first stop today was at Pulenta Estate…
Winery Touring around Mendoza May 2018 (Day 1)
This is our third trip to Mendoza, and as we did on the last two trips, we took wine tours for a couple days with Vendimia Wine Tours. Leo is the owner of Vendimia, and we used him the last…
Aloha to Waikiki . . . flying home to Orlando
We’ve had a wonderful 3 night stay here at the Hyatt Waikiki; it feels much longer than it sounds, perhaps because we stayed a night in the DFW Airport Hyatt before flying out here on Saturday. As our flight to…
Memorial Day weekend in Waikiki continues . . .
We woke up on Memorial Day, and headed down to breakfast on the third floor Executive Lounge to have breakfast. We just missed the end of the Memorial Day parade, which the end was just passing by as we arrived.…
Aloha flight from DFW
After a great night’s sleep at the Grand Hyatt DFW Airport, we had a nice breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant. With a stack of pancakes, bacon, and fresh squeezed orange juice, we were ready for our 8 1/2 hour flight…
Aloha layover in DFW
On this Memorial Day Friday evening, we flew from Orlando (MCO) to Dallas (DFW) and stayed overnight at the Grand Hyatt DFW Airport. In the morning, our journey continues, as we are flying nonstop to Honolulu at 9:15am. We broke…