Tag Archives: vacation

Summertime Summertime Sum Sum Summertime

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Jeff Salter

What I Look Forward to in the Summer By Jeff Salter Topic: What is the one thing that you look forward to in the summer? As I often do on Hound Day, I’m gonna equivocate a bit. For one thing, … Continue reading →

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What Happened to the Summer?

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Jeff Salter

By Jeff Salter This week and next week are both about summer, but while next week reveals what I DID during these summer months, today’s column is all about what I left un-done or never got around to. Yeah, the … Continue reading →

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An End and Beginnings; Not Exactly Vacation

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Tonette Joyce

We were supposed to be discussing what we are doing for the last week of Summer Vacation…huh? The Fox who made the topics for the last few months could not have known that school starts here at the beginning of … Continue reading →

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Final week of summer vacation

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Jeff Salter

Didn’t Want it to End By Jeff Salter We’re blogging about summer’s ending and school’s beginning.  More specifically:  what were we thinking about during the final week of summer? Two years ago, I wrote about how I never wanted the … Continue reading →

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Location, Location, Location

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Jeff Salter

By Jeff Salter Our topic this week deals with Continent / Country / City we’ve always wanted to visit.  Scroll back to Iris on Monday, Janette on Tuesday, and Micki on Wednesday to see what they had to say.  And … Continue reading →

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Didn’t Travel on Summer Vacations

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Jeff Salter

By Jeff Salter  We’re blogging about summer vacations this week. When I was a kid, my family didn’t take vacations during the summer.  But we surely did travel a lot during the late Spring, when school was still in session. … Continue reading →

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In Fear For My Life

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Jeff Salter

                                                          By Jeff Salter              I’ve had a goodly share of scary experiences during my lifetime, beginning with two instances of “nearly drowning” (according to my parents) about 18 months apart … when I was a toddler.             At the … Continue reading →

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Train Trip Through Italy

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Author

The summer of 2011, I took my younger son to Italy. He wanted to go to Rome and Venice. We flew into Rome and spent a few days, then we went by train to Venice. We spent a few days … Continue reading →

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Broke Down and Left in the Desert

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Jeff Salter

                                                          By Jeff Salter              When writing about unusual travel experiences, I’m stumped:  there are so many to choose from that I hardly know where to begin.             So, how about the time our VW bus broke down in the … Continue reading →

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