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Judy Whitlock's avatar

Rex, This looks like a place similar to where Ralph and Wayne drove their car into the lake to wash it and getting it stuck!! Beautiful and peaceful location when you don't have a car stuck. Have fun!

And, Tucker and Alaina are in Portsmouth England getting on a boat to Amsterdam, Bergan, Shetland & Iceland. As youngsters this travel will be life changing!!

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REX SMITH's avatar

So happy to hear this about Tucker and Alaina — what a great adventure! The car-washing, so well-recounted, was in Dorcas Bay, which I think is Lake Superior. Seems to me that there was a bit of sensitivity on the part of “Commodore Wayne,” upon being reminded of what had happened to his 1957 DeSoto. Funny what details stick!

We are with Ken’s clan, minus only Reid.

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patrick quinn's avatar

"I went out to the hazel wood

because a fire was in my head

And cut and peeled a hazel wand

and hooked a berry to a thread

and when white moths were on the wing

and mouthlike stars were flick'ring out

I dropped the berry in a stream

and caught a little silver trout

When I had laid it on the floor

and gone to blow the fire aflame

something rustled by my side

and someone called me by my name

It had become a glimmering girl

with apple blossoms in her hair

who called me by my name and ran

and faded on the brightening air

though I am old with wandering

through hollow lands and hilly lands

I will find out where she has gone

and kiss her lips and take her hands

and pluck, til time and times are done

the silver apples of the moon

the golden apples of the sun"

(W. B. Yeats)

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Al Bellenchia's avatar

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” - Gustave Flaubert

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,

To gain all while you give,

To roam the roads of lands remote,

To travel is to live.” - Hans Christian Andersen

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