delmer on August 26th, 2010

When we last left off, which was one post after when we started this tale, a Border Guard had just suggested we pull aside and make a trip into the border crossing building to speak with another Border Officer. So we parked, got out, and made our way across the parking lot. The eight of [...]

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delmer on August 20th, 2010

…and moved to Beverly. Except, in our case, it was a minivan and we were taking a tour across the country to Ohio. So, Diane, the kids and I hit the road. King George Highway, to be exact, and made our way toward the border. Did you know, and I’m sure you didn’t, that there [...]

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delmer on August 18th, 2010

A picture, of you and I and five children in a minivan at the CanAmerican border. Or the Canadian/American Border if you prefer. And on the chance you’re more a Bob Hope fan than a Prince fan, adjust your thinking and pretend this post started, “Remember that time we were at the Canadian border with [...]

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delmer on August 12th, 2010

I have mentioned before that I have good travel karma. I think this is because I’m the kind of traveler who obeys all of the traveling rules. Those that are given by the flight crews and those that simply come under the heading of being common-sensical. I put one bag in the overhead and one [...]

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delmer on August 10th, 2010

A while back I wrote something called Travel Karma II. It’s been sitting on my hard drive and I’ll post it tomorrow or the next day. While, on the surface, it would appear to be a post about how I have good luck when it comes to travel as I, myself, am a polite traveler… [...]

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delmer on May 17th, 2010

I’m not sure what went wrong where — I was sleeping or trying to sleep when whatever was going wrong was going wrong. I flew out of Seattle last night at 11:55 p.m. and expected to arrive in Chicago at 5:35 a.m. for a 6:40 a.m. connector to Columbus. We flew and flew and flew. [...]

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delmer on May 9th, 2010

Michael has recently moved to Adelaide, which is in Australia which, for my American readers, is where AC/DC comes from. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that over the course of my life the vast majority of my days have passed without any thoughts or notions of Adelaide popping into [...]

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delmer on May 7th, 2010

There are several things I like about Vancouver International Airport. Among those things are: I’ve never had any trouble getting in or out of it. They have free WiFi (Minneapolis/St. Paul loses points for having Boingo). Check-in and security have always been quick. However, the thing I think I like the most is the way [...]

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delmer on May 3rd, 2010

I flew out of Vancouver, today, right at noon. I was to fly to Minnesota (Minn-e-soooh-tah per the sitcoms… but I’ve never heard anybody say it that way), arriving, after adjusting for time zones, around 5:30 and then I’d catch a 7 p.m. flight to Columbus. As it happened, right around 6:15 the Minneapolis/St. Paul gate [...]

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delmer on April 13th, 2010

I mentioned in yesterday’s posting that Diane and I ran into Scott Foley in Vancouver. It was a rather informal encounter – so informal in fact that I doubt Scott’s mentioned it on his blog and he most likely lacks any knowledge whatsoever that it even happened. And I’m cool with that… it took me [...]

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