My Birthday celebration week continues! Steve (DOS) and I departed my home town of Roanoke, Virginia around noon for a 3 day getaway to Charlottesville (link via Wikipedia.) Charlottesville, Virginia, is a couple hour’s drive from Roanoke, and has a…
It’s Tuesday night as I write this, (again, another timeout from the China trip blog) and Steve (DOS) and I are staying at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point this week. This is our first time staying at this resort in…
After starting out on our holiday Friday night at the Hyatt Regency Orlando Airport, Steve (DOS) and I flew to Toronto on Saturday as the first stop in our China vacation. We love staying at the Orlando Airport Hyatt Regency,…
Steve (DOS) and I spent an enjoyable Cinco de Mayo Weekend at Disney World with our friends Jane and Jess visiting from Australia. I had met Jane (the mother) on a cruise in Australia nearly 20 years ago, and more…
We had a wonderful dinner at Mo’s Steakhouse in downtown Milwaukee during our recent weekend visit there. Mo’s is typical of the Wisconsin Supper Clubs in that it is family owned, has been established for years, and has a lounge…
After leaving the Dells area, we returned the rental car at Milwaukee (MKE) Airport, as we no longer needed it for our weekend stay downtown. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, which was conveniently located to many restaurants and…
This week I was in business in the Dells area of Wisconsin. I should say ‘we’ as Steve (DOS) tagged along on this trip with me, thanks to the complimentary Southwest Airlines companion pass. While I worked during the day,…
We started our pre-holiday Jekyll Island weekend with a night out at Bern’s Steak House. Earlier in the day, we had picked up my brother Andy and his partner Art at the Tampa Airport, as they had just flown in…
I’m starting this as a placeholder for our Montevideo trip. We are safely home and had a wonderful trip. It’s now just after Thanksgiving and I’m quite a few posts behind! It’s been a very busy month, and and this…
After the overnight flight from Miami to Montevideo (MVD), we arrived at our hotel around 10:30am. We stayed at the Hyatt Centric, a new and trendy type hotel of the Hyatt brand, with this one in an ideal location along…