This Adventure Called Retirement
The travels of David and Mary.
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- Day 37: Tuesday 29 April 2025 – Cincinnati OH to Outerbanks NC
- Day 36: Monday 28 April 2025 – Merrillville IN to Cincinnati OH
- Day 35: Sunday 27 April 2025 – La Crosse MI to Merrillville ID via the U-505 National Historical Landmark
- Day 34: Saturday 26 April 2025 – Rapid City SD to La Crosse WI
- Day 33: Friday 25 April 2025 – Miles City MT to Rapid City SD via North Dakota
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We finished our visit with Jeanne and Fred with breakfast at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank. This is the oldest remaining Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in America and was built in 1949. The neon sign out front is original and there is even a neon sign advertising car-hop service, though this service is no longer…
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Burbank CA is best described as a small oasis town in the valley behind the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, filled with numerous single family homes interspersed among the several major studios and backlots of production icons such as Paramount, Universal, Warner Brothers, to name a few. On our first day visit, after a breakfast…
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After a good night sleep at Jim and Sherry’s we attended Palm Sunday Mass at their Parish, Holy Trinity, and then enjoyed a nice breakfast of bacon and eggs before continuing our travels. We left Jim and Sherry making egg salad sandwiches for a Masters Golf Tournament party that they were attending. Our next stop…
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We completed our visit with Steve and Rebecca Saturday with a lunch of Tacos from Taqueria Revolution in Chula Vista. Our visit was too short but we will be back soon. We drove up I-5 to Ladera Ranch to visit my brother, Jim, and his wife, Sherry. They took us to their country club for…
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Today is San Diego Zoo Day. We spent the morning at the San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park with Steve, Rebecca, and their son Eric. Just as you enter you are met by the iconic flamingos of the San Diego Zoo. It had been decades since Mary and I have been to this Zoo and…
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After a good night sleep in our tent, we woke up relatively early to get on the road to San Diego. There are no direct interstate highways from the Grand Canyon to San Diego so we had to take several smaller highways first across southwest Arizona between I-40 and I-10 and then again across the…
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We survived the night! At 6:30am the temperature was 29 degrees but our preparations resulted in a very comfortable and restful night of sleep. We covered the tent floor with two moving blankets (acquired from the numerous moves we helped with our kids over the past two years) and had an inflatable queen size mattress…
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We set out early from Phoenix with the plan to make a quick drive to the Grand Canyon and camp overnight in our tent. We haven’t tent camped in over 30 years so there was some trepidation to our plan. especially since the weather reports indicated that nighttime temperatures were dropping below freezing along the…
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We woke up early Sunday morning to meet Beth, Richard, Emily, Gene, Katie and Eddie at 7am Mass at Queen of Peace church in Mesa. The early start was recommended by Beth and fit well with Gene and Katie’s plans since they had a midday flight back to Norfolk. After Mass we went back to…
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Our stop in Phoenix AZ was the principle driver for the timing of our trip – to attend our son-in-law Richard’s opening of his thesis photography show at Arizona State University. On Thursday Richard had his thesis defense which included a review of his gallery and actions to make changes so we were on our…
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