Category: Vacation
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I’m Back… and not a single step to show for it!
By the time our plane landed at Holguin, we cleared Passport Control, Security, and had retrieved our luggage, waited for everyone else, and then endured the two hour drive to the resort it was going on 2:00am. To use one of my favourite British slang terms, we were knackered. Still and all, after we checked…
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Goodbye Vegas: A Friday Post :)
Thanks, I needed that. As I write this I am sitting on a plane outbound from Las Vegas. Aside from spending five marvelous days with great friends, I really needed the vacation. This was, far and away, my most enjoyable trip to that city; part of that is because it is my first visit that…
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Vacation Time!
Dear friends, colleagues, and loyal followers. I want to thank you for visiting The World According to Mitch. It is because of you that I have been able to achieve the incredible successes I have over the past year. Since returning from vacation last January I have posted over 250 articles in this space. Granted,…
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Day 4: Wednesday Morning, 3AM
I have not been sleeping very well during the cruise. I don’t know if that is because I am relaxing so much during the day, or what else it might be. I certainly have not been lying awake worrying about… well, anything. The cruise has been a nearly stress-free time, and I have always been…
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Day 3: Strategy
There are two types of people who play backgammon. People who play the game casually and, when playing with another person of the same caliber, will probably win more or less as many as he loses. Then there are the people who have studied the game, the strategies, the odds. I remember as a teenager…
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Cruise Day 2: Key West
I cheated, I know. We docked in Key West this morning, and my cell phone announced the occasion loudly by chiming that I have e-mail, despite Roaming Data being turned off. As I waited for Theresa to get ready (I showered first) I looked at the e-mail quickly… there was only one that needed an…
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Caribbean Cruise: Day of Departure
As we left Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida I felt my hands shaking a bit. It had nothing to do with the rumbling of the engines of the Carnival Freedom, but rather the beginning of a long process of decompression and relaxation that I hope will be completed before we return to the same…
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