Category: 2024 – May – Jun
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Celebration of Life in Connecticut
Our last stop was near my hometown of Waterford, CT. My oldest nephew – the son of my older sister Suzanne – Theo Mathias Maryeski passed away in early April, and the celebration of life was held in New London on June 17th. He was an intelligent free spirit and lived his too short life…
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Cousins in Maryland
We left Aiken on Wednesday, Jun 12, and I think we had another first – we were stopped by a train on the way out of town. Popoki waited patiently for the train to go by. We were headed to Elkton, MD to the home of my cousin Earlin and his wife Gay. We had…
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Aiken, SC
We spent most of Wednesday, May 29 to Wednesday, June 12 with Trish’s niece Whitney and her sister Cookie in Aiken, SC. After many years living in Connecticut, Cookie moved to Aiken over a year ago, so we were glad to get to see her. As you know if you have followed our travels, Whitney’s…
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Eudora Safari Park
On Thursday, June 6, Allie and the boys drove over from Charleston, accompanied by my sister Mary Beth and her husband Mike. They had driven down to Charleston from New Hampshire to spend a week with their grand kids. We met at the Eudora Safari Park. Whitney had done some art work and signs for…
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Seeing Catherine in Greenville, SC
On Monday, June 3 we got up early (for us) and drove to Greenville to see our friend Catherine – the last time we were there, it rained the entire time so we didn’t do much. Once we got settled in we drove over to Paris Mountain State Park to take a walk around the…
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Family in Winter Park
In Winter Park we visited with Trish’s niece Beth and her husband Daryl. Their daughter Rachel and her husband Patrick also live in town, and they have baby Oliver. Ollie is 9 months old and is Trish’s first great great nephew! We went directly to to Rachel’s and got to meet Ollie on Friday, May…
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Visiting Jacksonville
After leaving Charleston, we spent four nights in Jacksonville. The first day and a half we spent with Pat Calvin. Pat, who is now 92, was the Mock’s maid from before Trish was born until Mrs. Mock passed away in 1990. Pat always says she had 7 black kids (her own) and 6 white kids…
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Visiting the Williams’ in Goose Creek
It was a short ride from Myrtle Beach to our campsite in Charleston on Friday, May 17. We were on US 17 for most of the way and on some nice two lane roads that make for easy driving. Looks like there had been some sort of fire in the left picture. We were headed…
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Murrells Inlet, SC
We left Boone on Monday, May 13 and made our way to Huntington Beach Park in SC. That’s just south of Myrtle Beach. Our friend Catherine was joining us for the next four days. After setting up our campsite we decided to go out to dinner. We settled on the Dead Dog Saloon. There were…
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Friends in Boone, NC
We arrived in Boone, NC at Terry and Donna’s on Wednesday, May 8 and stayed until Monday, May 13. We had a great time visiting and catching up on the past year with my college roommate and her wife. We had a bit of rainy weather but we did manage to get out and do…
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Friends and Family Plus
We are off on the road again – for a trip down the east coast to visit family and friends and have a few other adventures. We left last Thursday, May 2 and will be gone until mid to late June. Our first night on the road we stayed at Doug and Lizabeth’s in Gardiner,…