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Charleston SC at Christmas time
Where Historic meets Hip We needed a quick long weekend trip so we decided on Charleston SC! Our friends Donna & Ford Terry joined us. It was magical at Christmas time. It did rain but we had raincoats and our lovely hotel provided umbrellas. ☔️ We stayed at The Fulton Lane Inn. https://fultonlaneinn.com/ It’s a…
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Quick trip to Ocean Springs
We had been wanting to visit Ocean Springs for a while! My daughter wanted to go on a quick trip before her teaching job started again. We started looking for places to stay and got alot of good recommendations. We settled on Gulf Hills Resort because they had rooms with 2 queens but ended up…
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Tuscany 2.0 RSJ PART 2
Monday we started at the Medici museum/chapel. https://bargellomusei.it/en/museum/cappelle-medicee/ more The Medici family was a powerful and influential Florentine family that played a major role in Italian Renaissance. This is the burial place of the Medici family, the Cappelle Medicee(Medici Chapels) is national monument and museum. It features the “Sagrestia Nuova”, whose architecture and sculptures are by Michelangelo.…
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Tuscany 2.0 RSJ Part 1
We started off our 7 day Tuscany 2.0 trip on Friday morning by meeting the group of 24 in Florence. We had lunch in Florence and shopped for a few hours. We went to the leather school (Scuola Del Cuoio). It is in a 14th century monastery which started after World War II to teach…
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Lake Como/Varenna Italy 2025
Wednesday we arrive in Milan. We hired a driver named Mirko to get us to Varenna. We had been traveling 24 hours at that point. We got his name from Marina, our RSJ tour guide turned friend. We stayed at Albergo Milano (breakfast was included!). It has amazing views and super convenient to all of…
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Nashville in December 2024
We were excited to travel to Nashville for a friends wedding! I had maybe been twice in my life. We stopped in Birmingham and read to our daughter’s third grade class. Restoration Academy is a great private Christian school outside Birmingham. Then made a quick stop at Bucees. We stayed downtown at the Hampton Inn…
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Another hidden treasure in Mississippi
This is my second time to Brookhaven MS in last 3 months! I grew up going every summer for a week to stay with my great aunt and uncle-Aunt Litup and Uncle Teenie Becker. I have such fond memories. They had the local brickyard which was a compound it seemed. They had a grass tennis…
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Washington DC 3/2023 Bruce Springsteen and Cherry Blossoms 🌸
We had a fun family trip to DC to see the Cherry Blossoms and Bruce Springsteen! We missed Harrison and Baby James. Southwest Airlines got us there with zero problems. We walked around Navy Yard on the first day. We ate at El BeBe then had coffee at Compass Coffee. We walked around a new…
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Whistler 2023 February
Vancouver and Whistler are very far from Jackson MS! We had a long travel day to get there! It was worth it though! When we woke up the first morning after getting there at 3 am here is what we saw out our window! We were staying at the Fairmont! Sking first day was beautiful.…
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Steamboat 2022 July
Luci and I took a Quick trip to see Harrison. First stop after Denver airport and the Hertz car rental was in SilverThorne, CO. Thieggan with Half baked Harvest recommended Sauce on the Blue for lunch. It has delicious homemade pizzas 🍕. We got a coffee next door at Red Buffalo Coffee and got back…
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