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As we are driving west on I270, I can't help but smile. I am looking at the long line of cars headed into DC to begin their work day. I, on the otherhand, am going with some of my co-workers for a snow day on the slopes of Whitetail. It was an early morning because we wanted to hit the slopes as they are open and it is a a 2 hour drive to Whitetail from DC. First, we stopped for breakfast at a Waffle House in ...

Neil spent the morning doing a few maintenance jobs on the bus and we left the park around midday. Next stop was the Wal-Mart super centre on the outskirts of Hanover that we had passed on the way in yesterday.
Although it is only just the beginning of October and Halloween is almost a full month away, as we drove through the towns we noticed that many of the houses had begun to decorate their porches and gardens with pumpkins, ghosts and skeletons and such ...

Well, we hit the road about an hour later than planned. Not too bad at all really. We got settled in the hotel, changed clothes and headed to dinner. Dinner was at LJ and the Kat Lounge in Hagerstown. Don't let the name fool you! It's a fabulous place with a GREAT wine list ...

     The Great Western Trip as finally arrived!!  I have been dreaming it and planning it and now I am finally doing it.  On the very first day of this adventure, I retired.  I can't say much because then it would all be about me, but my colleagues, staff, and family gave me a send off that was too moving for words.  I needed the event to be marked and I will never forget what they did to make it the most memorable ...

... hot but fortunately we had your "pool" to cool our feet! The next stop for us was a place called Fort Frederick Maryland. This was a State Park with an old fort that we thought might be interesting. However, it was so ridiculously hot .. around 100 degrees that we just didn't have the energy. The camp ground did not have any power so we started the generator so we could use the air con. That died within about 5 mins as we only had a quarter of a tank of fuel ...

Stage 3, Camp Hill to Bedford... the longest day of the race, at nearly 170kms. Matt and I promptly failed to acheive our one task of the morning, which was to wake up on time. No thanks to Chuggy for failing to wake us for an hour after it became clear we'd slept in!!! Details of the race start getting a bit sketchy for me at this point, as things started to blend into one... We had two feed atations, however, due to a fairly major ...

Vera and I left Marietta this morning at 7:30am....arriving in Hagerstown, MD at 6:30pm.... It was a cool morning in Georgia and a beautiful day to travel. The farm land through Tennessee and Virginia was just beautiful! We went through a little piece of West Virginia and will be staying the night just over the line into Maryland ...

Captain's log. Star date: 3.141592653589.... rounded off to the nearest who the hell knows what place that is? So, I know I haven't written a thing in months. I've been working so much (I know that's the tiredest excuse in the world), but it's true. We're under a lot of pressure to deliver our first boats for a particular design by a very unrealistic date. So, in order to achieve unrealistic goals, we are putting unrealistic hours in. But ...

Well, we're all packed and ready to go! Our flight leaves at 5:15 p.m. from Dulles Airport in Washington, DC. We have an 8-hour flight to Copenhagen, where we will have a 2 hour layover. Then it's off to Rome, the first stop on our trip! Matt Dell will meet us in Rome on Thursday. After Rome, we will head on to Venice, Munich, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and then London! Check back for updates...!

... ive ever seen! ;) But it had snow nonetheless and we were determined to be on it! With a 2 hour sticker on our jackets and a tube in our hands, we couldnt wait to shove all those little kids out of the way and own the mountain like the expert sledders we are!! JUST KIDDING! :) There were so many fun people there that day...tons of adorable marshmellow-looking kids all bundled up in their gear! There were 8 different runs ...