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  • Cleared for takeoff — over the Alaska Range
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    Cleared for takeoff — over the Alaska Range

    ByEileen Ogintz August 23, 2022August 25, 2022

    Kantishna Air Taxi mostly flies visitors around the mountain, said our pilot Andy Young. “A plane in Alaska is like a car anywhere else,” he explained. “It is how we get around. There just aren’t any roads in a lot of the state.”

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  • TIME TO GO FISHING AGAIN – to a great resort in Canada
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    TIME TO GO FISHING AGAIN – to a great resort in Canada

    ByAndy Yemma August 22, 2022November 10, 2025

    Last summer, after many years away from the sport, son Matt and I decided it was time to go fishing again. We recruited our cousin-in-law Mike Sitzman and his dad John, who live in Golden, CO to join us. After some basic internet research we decided upon a spot in Canada’s Ontario Province – Garden Island Lodge

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  • The Galapagos Islands — not cheap, not luxurious, but oh the wildlife and the memories!
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    The Galapagos Islands — not cheap, not luxurious, but oh the wildlife and the memories!

    ByEileen Ogintz August 22, 2022June 28, 2023

    This wouldn’t be everyone’s first choice for an expensive vacation. There are no beach chairs or bars on these protected beaches, where tourists may only venture with a guide. But this is an adventure we’ll never forget, starting with those sea lions we spotted on San Cristobal Island, snoozing on rowboats as if they owned the place.

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  • The Chick Flies the Coop
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    The Chick Flies the Coop

    ByEileen Ogintz August 22, 2022June 28, 2023

    “This is going to be the first time truly putting my travel skills from growing up to the test but I know it is just the beginning,” my youngest daughter Mel wrote in the “thank you” note she left

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  • A real pasta machine: in the charming village of Grazie
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    A real pasta machine: in the charming village of Grazie

    ByEileen Ogintz August 22, 2022August 25, 2022

    Day Six – at charming small restaurant La Locanda de le Grazie in the village of Grazie just a few miles outside the amazingly preserved undiscovered Renaissance city of Mantova (Mantua in English).

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  • To Norway, the land of fjords, ‘Frozen’ and family fun
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    To Norway, the land of fjords, ‘Frozen’ and family fun

    ByEileen Ogintz August 22, 2022August 25, 2022

    No, not the Splash Mountain in Walt Disney World or Disneyland, we’re actually in Norway touring the gorgeous fjords with Adventures by Disney where one waterfall is bigger and more awesome than the next

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  • Memories of Monet’s Garden: where a little girl led the way
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    Memories of Monet’s Garden: where a little girl led the way

    ByEileen Ogintz August 22, 2022August 25, 2022

    From the time we told Melanie we were going to France that summer, she insisted we must visit Monet’s Garden. It wasn’t that far-fetched an idea.

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  • A visit to Lady Liberty and Ellis Island on a cold January day
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    A visit to Lady Liberty and Ellis Island on a cold January day

    ByEileen Ogintz August 22, 2022August 25, 2022

    Despite the blustery January weather, crowds of bundled-up tourists from around the world lined up to take the Statue Cruises ferry to Liberty Island, good-naturedly taking off belts and watches for the security screenings. The second stop would be historic Ellis Island

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  • Two weeks in France visiting Paris, champagne country and Normandy via river cruise
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    Two weeks in France visiting Paris, champagne country and Normandy via river cruise

    ByEileen Ogintz August 22, 2022August 25, 2022

    Arriving in Paris jet-lagged, a quick trip to see Monet’s water lillies at the Musee de L’Orangerie was just the tonic. Armed with a Paris Pass, we didn’t have to wait in a long line for tickets.

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  • Remembering the long goodbyes as we took our kids to college
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    Remembering the long goodbyes as we took our kids to college

    ByEileen Ogintz August 22, 2022October 3, 2023

    Two parents, five overweight bags and a college-bound daughter about to burst into tears. Talk about a stressful beginning to the Long Goodbye.

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