Kansas City, MO   Sunday morning. 07:00 and it is still dark outside. My phone says that sunrise is at 07:10. That must be when the sun first peaks over the horizon, but it won’t be sunny by then. Much like yesterday it is 5C (40F) according to my phone. Here in the apartment, it is nice and warm.   Ok, the sunrise has taken place. I can now see outside. It looks a little foggy. I suspect that will burn off quickly. The haze burned off early as expected. Mary got up at about

Kansas City, MO   Ah, Saturday morning. The premier task of the day is taking the dogs to the groomers. I left the apartment at 06:45 and headed to the streetcar. It is a couple blocks from the apartment. The streetcar arrived shortly after I did and took me to the next and last stop at UMKC, or as we refer to it Whole Foods (very near W 51st Street and Brookside Blvd.) Then I walked up to the house.   Grace and I took the dogs to the groomers arriving at 07:30 when they open

Kansas City, MO   Good morning. Today is mostly a rest and relax day. Nothing scheduled, well almost. Due to the time change both of us slept in more than usual. I managed to make it until nearly 07:00; Mary didn’t have any problem sleeping until I woke her up at 10:15, which without the time change would be 08:15 her normal wake-up time.   We picked up a Moka pot, milk frother and coffee while at Rochelle and Harry IV’s yesterday so I was able to make my coffee this morning.

Thursday San Carlos, CA > Kansas City, MO   Good morning to all! Today starts our next adventure, or more appropriately adventures. We are off this morning for Kansas City to spend time with Rochelle, Harry IV, Harry V, Grace, Oliver, George and the two dogs. From the date you can probably summarize that we are also here for Thanksgiving, and you would be correct.   On Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving we leave for Santiago, Chile and then on to Antarctica. We will be

Alexandria, VA   Hit the sack at 21:00 and managed to get some sleep until nearly 07:00. However, it wasn’t a good sleep. I wasn’t awake like last night, but I did toss & turn. Not sure why, just couldn’t seem to get comfortable enough to fallback asleep. Took a nice long shower, got cleaned up and headed out to Starbucks for my normal cappuccino and sausage, egg & cheddar sandwich. I sat in Starbucks and noticed there were very few people here. Much less for this time of day

Alexandria, VA   Up really early this morning about 01:30. Work on Judges biography for about two hours. Managed to get back to sleep and sleep in until nearly 07:00. Got dressed, went downstairs to the lobby where they were serving breakfast and helped myself to some scrambled eggs and bacon. While I ate, I shared a table with two middle school lads from Utah here on their 8th grade field trip to Washington DC. They seemed to be having a good time despite the government shut

Alexandria, VA   It was moderately late last night before we managed to get to bed. I went to Starbucks in Courthouse Square and my cappuccino and sausage, egg & cheddar sandwich about 07:00. I sat in Starbucks and watched people come and go. Again, there really aren’t an overwhelming number of people, and again probably due to the shutdown. A couple people did appear to be taking things back to the office, i.e. multiple drinks and a bag of breakfast goodies. No young college

San Carlos, CA > Alexandria, VA   Good morning, finally back on the road. While we haven’t stopped traveling, my last trip was to Old Miss to visit Grace a month ago. Mary has gone on a trip with her book club to Canada and with her sister and cousin to New Mexico. I did a short visit to Eureka to see my cousins and do a little research on the life of the Judge. But now it is time to get back in the saddle and get going.   We are off to Alexandria Virginia to visit Mary’s Aun

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