Category Archives: On Travels and Adventures

Jiggety-jig

Posted on July 10, 2023 by ksedinger

This newfound habit of mine, in which I post here on Monday through Thursday and then don’t post at all Friday through Sunday, is not an intentional habit at all; it’s just one of those seeming habits that gets dictated … Continue reading →

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Notes from North of the Border: A Travelogue (days two and three)

Posted on May 22, 2023 by ksedinger

A couple of weeks ago The Wife and I enjoyed a weekend getaway to Toronto! I’ve already documented Day One; now here’s a brief rundown on Days Two and Three. (By ‘brief’ I mean…not very brief.) After the difficulties we … Continue reading →

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Notes from North of the Border: A Travelogue (Day One)

Posted on April 30, 2023 by ksedinger

Last weekend The Wife and I enjoyed a three-night getaway to Canada. We hadn’t been to Toronto in way too many years, even before COVID made crossing the border impossible, and we were excited to return. Our plans were all in … Continue reading →

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“Well, I’m back,” he said.

Posted on October 3, 2022 by ksedinger

It’s Monday! And as promised, The Wife and I are back from our too-brief (aren’t they all?) weekend getaway. After the general shit-show that was Summer 2022 for us, we really needed a nice getaway. And that’s exactly what we had. … Continue reading →

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Four days in the Finger Lakes

Posted on June 6, 2022 by ksedinger

I’ve been in love with New York’s Finger Lakes region pretty much ever since we moved to New York in 1981. My first sight of any of those lakes came that first summer. We moved here in June, I think–pretty … Continue reading →

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Tony and Patsy

Posted on January 15, 2022 by ksedinger

Two giants of my early eating and drinking life, Tony Marra and Patsy Collins, died in 2021. Patsy ran a bar. Tony ran a restaurant. Patsy’s bar was called The Burton Hotel, or The Burton for short. It’s located on … Continue reading →

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Rainbows, Moonbows, Sunsets, and the Stars: Adventures beneath the Hawaiian sky

Posted on January 14, 2022 by ksedinger

So much of one’s time in Hawaii is spent looking up, or out. Up to the sky, or out to where the sky meets the sea. And there’s a rainbow almost every day. In Buffalo, I might get to see … Continue reading →

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“I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right”: A MAGNUM geek visits Paradise

Posted on January 12, 2022 by ksedinger

Longtime readers may remember that I was a big fan of the show Magnum PI back in the day. That is, the original show, the one that ran in the 1980s, and not the new reboot show that is running, well, now. … Continue reading →

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Hawaiian adventures

Posted on January 10, 2022 by ksedinger

Our trip to Hawaii was…amazing. Just amazing. In fact, it was quite nearly perfect. My mother dreamed all her life of going to Hawaii, and at some point after she had safely seen her two children off to lives of … Continue reading →

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“And I’m so worried about the baggage retrieval system they’ve got at Heathrow”

Posted on December 27, 2021 by ksedinger

UPDATED and CLARIFIED below! So, the trip home from Hawaii was supposed to go like this: December 23: Board plane at HNL, about 12:30pm. Arrive LAX, around 8:00pm. Depart LAX for DTW (Detroit), around 12:00am. Arrive DTW, around 6:00am. Depart DTW … Continue reading →

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