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Arizona in the Winter 2020

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A cold  Tuesday morning in January we drove to Parking Lot East, using the prepay discount. We had a breakfast of avocado toast before boarding our 10 AM flight. We landed right on time in the rain. Our friends were there to pick us up. We drove by the Arizona Cardinals baseball stadium and took photos. Then we stopped in for lunch at the Kettle Black Kitchen. I had cod sliders and tortilla soup plus a beer that was on tap, Marble Double White. Carol had fish n chips and the same beer. On the way to SMR, we stopped at Fry’s a local grocery to pick up what we needed for the week. We did really well on making this a low cost vacation.  Traffic was a little crazy but we got to SMR and met our dog sitting charges, LE and Frankie, two little white dogs with sheep like fur. We were told they were Maltese mixes but looked like little poodle-bichon mixes. We took them for a walk and then Carolyn served up our dinner which was stew.  Wednesday, we had to get up and get the dogs fed and walked s
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Mediterranean Adventure Fall 2019

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Greece We arrived on Wednesday morning after a long day of travel. Donna had picked us up on Tuesday at 5:30 which gave us some time at the airport to eat and drink before boarding a two hour flight to Toronto.  The international part of the airport in Toronto is really nice and we quickly found a nice place for lunch. We enjoyed burgers and talked to our waitress who commutes in from Guelph. She mentioned she had thought of moving to Miami and we recommended that she stay put in Canada. Once we boarded, we settled in for a nine hour flight. Our movies including one set in Barcelona helped pass the time. Sleep was elusive and thankfully we were in Athens about 30 minutes early. That airport stood in stark contrast to Canada. It was dinghy and disorganized. We showed our passports and collected our luggage. Customs was a non-event. The taxi ride was only exciting when we realized how good it was that we had gotten Euros in St. Louis as the driver didn’t take credit car
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San Francisco in April

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We arrived in San Francisco around 2 PM on Thursday and intended to take an Uber to the hotel. But when we went to the pick up spot, we had 3 Uber drivers and 2 Lyft drivers that could not find us. We ended up with a taxi to our hotel, Club Quarters in the Financial District. Once we settled in, we were anxious to get to the water and took a walk down to Pier #1 on the bay. That night, we had dinner at Perbacco, a super trendy local filled Italian place. The food was good, the service was t0p notch and the vibe was very young and filled with IT conversations all around us.                                                       View from the rooftop of our hotel Friday morning, we were up early as we had planned a trip to go to Alcatraz and then a Cable car tour around the city. That tour included seeing the Golden Gate bridge from every angle, including walking half way across it. Dinner was at the most famous and adorable Cafe Claude. Sa
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