Tag: on the road
member name: Rick S.
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December 27, 2008 08:19 PM EST --
We got on the road early and made a quick stop for supplies at a Wal Mart in Springfield MO. It was Christmas Eve, so we wanted to have food to eat dinner in the car because restaurants might be closing . . .
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December 28, 2008 12:04 AM EST --
We woke up Christmas morning at the Travelodge in Holbrook AZ, had breakfast at the hotel and got information on a local church to go to mass.
We headed into town, but found that we had the time wrong. . . .
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February 23, 2007 02:03 AM EST --
After spending a hectic couple of days at the Boskone Convention in Boston, Gynn and I drove north. We stayed a night with family in Merrimack NH, and then it was back on the road. Our destination: Some . . .
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February 27, 2007 06:16 PM EST --
As February draws to a rapid end, I'm back at work and we are back at Borders in Hyannis MA for our weekly writing/drawing session. We should be arriving there around 7:00 PM. We got some snow yesterday, . . .
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October 08, 2007 10:42 PM EDT --
On our way back from Pi-Con in Springfield MA this past August, Gynn and I decided to stop off to spend some time outdoors. We detoured to Sutton MA and Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, south of . . .
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January 01, 2009 01:27 AM EST --
When people think of Arizona, most of them probably envision landscapes like the Painted Desert that we visited the previous day.
But an hour south of where we were staying in Holbrook, we encountered . . .
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December 30, 2008 11:50 PM EST --
The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
A father and son, neither of them named, travel south across a scorched and empty landscape that was once America. McCarthy's post-apocalyptic setting is a . . .
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July 21, 2009 11:59 AM EDT --
I spent last weekend in Baltimore with my wife and our friend Judy. My main reason for the visit was to attend Otakon , a large anime convention. The artist for one of my upcoming comic books, Missy . . .
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July 25, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago, Gynn and I hit the road for Columbus Ohio, and the Origins International Game Fair . We both volunteer for the convention. Gynn works registration, and this year I was scheduled . . .
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January 27, 2009 05:04 PM EST --
The Complete Route 66 Lost & Found by Russell A. Olsen
Dubbed the "Mother Road" by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath , US Highway 66 stretches from Chicago to . . .
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March 24, 2009 07:47 PM EDT --
This past Sunday, I headed out to Easthampton MA for the New England Webcomics Weekend , a premier event for webcomic creators and fans.
The venue was Eastworks, a mill building converted into artist . . .
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December 26, 2008 11:33 PM EST --
We said goodbye to our friends in Cincinnati and headed into Kentucky, passing through Florence (which proudly proclaims "Florence, Y'All!" in huge lettering on a roadside water tower) and . . .
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December 28, 2008 10:49 PM EST --
On our second day in Arizona we were still in a bit of a recovery mode from all of the traveling. We got up in the morning and decided to re-stock our supplies, so we headed west to Winslow to do some . . .
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December 29, 2008 11:40 PM EST --
This was our first day seeing the major tourist attractions of Arizona. Our destination: Petrified Forest National Park, which also contains the famous Painted Desert.
From the north entrance to the . . .
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January 29, 2009 02:24 AM EST --
We got up early on the tenth day of our vacation and drove west toward Flagstaff AZ and Grand Canyon National Park. This would be our last major tourist expedition of the trip; we'd saved the most . . .
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June 30, 2007 09:22 PM EDT --
In a place full of tourist traps waiting for the summer crowd, the Cape Cod Baseball League stands out as the best entertainment bargain to be found on Cape Cod every summer.
The premier amateur baseball . . .
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December 25, 2008 09:46 PM EST --
This is the first in a series of reports from the road on out (nearly) cross-country winter road trip. My wife has, for many years, wanted to see the desert. So this year on my Christmas break, we decided . . .
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February 12, 2008 09:35 PM EST --
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
I was fully prepared to hate Bridge to Terabithia , and not just because I was watching it on a Greyhound bus en route from Boston to New York, a trip that I would . . .
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March 01, 2009 11:49 AM EST --
The Arisia Convention is a long-running science fiction convention in the Boston area. This past January was my first time attending Arisia in several years and I was very pleased with the size and . . .
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February 16, 2008 10:36 AM EST --
On the Road
Wicked Awesome: Wicked Faire 2008, Edison NJ
We first met Jeff Mach last summer at Pi-Con in Springfield MA. He came over to our table, chatted a bit, and bought a couple of our . . .
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