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Summer 2019 Vacation trip, day 2

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Marchbanks

Second morning, and we got ourselves up at a civilised hour: eight ayem.  The uncivilised part was having to get ourselves ALL the way across Tennessee.  It was like NINE hours of I-40 and I-81 (mostly the former), at least … Continue reading →

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Summer 2019 Vacation trip, Day 1

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Marchbanks

We are out on vacation or maybe not; there are Events in train and we don’t know enough yet to know which way to jump. Continue reading →

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The Capital/Capitol Trip – Days 2 through 4

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Marchbanks

Sunday we planned on a “short” day, only 350 miles or so from the first Springfield (Missouri), with a stop to see the Missouri capitol in Jefferson City and the transportation museum in Saint Louis. Missouri state capitol at Jeff … Continue reading →

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The Capital/Capitol Trip – Day 1

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Marchbanks

Our vacation this year is another cross-country trip east, this time to go to my niece Kelly’s delayed wedding reception and to meet my great-niece Sofia, but of course we can’t leave it at just that. Come along with us. … Continue reading →

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Day Trips: Visit to a Coleman drug store that was closed

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Marchbanks

We took a holiday trip to visit a retro, small-town drug store. I gambled it would be open but rolled snake eyes. Continue reading →

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Maryland Enchiladas Banderas—is that even a thing??  (Yes.  It is.)

Posted on November 22, 2014 by Marchbanks

I paid the bill, and left a quite generous tip for the waitress for having outdone me at being provincial. Continue reading →

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Birthday Trip to Fort Concho

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Marchbanks

Field artillery was an expensive proposition (a battery of six guns required sixty or seventy men and nearly as many horses to support it). Continue reading →

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The trip that was something else

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Marchbanks

We had planned to go to Palestine to ride the train.  Except we didn’t do that. Continue reading →

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Go west, young man:  2013 vacation, Day the Last

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Marchbanks

I was forcibly reminded just how much the Panhandle is Jeebus country. Continue reading →

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Go west, young man:  2013 vacation, Day 14

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Marchbanks

It was the worst kind of pandering to the worst parts of patriotism, and the audience loved it. I was appalled. Continue reading →

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