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10 Things I Like About the Heat in Phoenix

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!No one believes I really like the hot weather in Phoenix! They can not believe that after living in Colorado for over 38 years and Ohio 10 years before that, that I could really love the desert and its […]

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Where’s Your Allegiance?

The sun is rising this morning here in Phoenix, and the United States is another year older. I normally don’t give it a lot of thought. This year is a little different. The country has a problem that is getting worse.
Hundreds of years ago, the world from one year to the next looked pretty much […]

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Carnival’s Glory Eastern Caribbean Cruise: A ship’s view

PART 2
The Carnival Glory is part of the largest class of ship in the Carnival fleet. It is 110,000 gross tons. That’s pretty big! The Glory’s statistics are as follows: Length 952 feet (almost a quarter of a mile), beam 116 feet(this is the width at its widest). Passenger capacity is 3,700 with an average […]

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Where in the World is Philladden?

Clues and pictures to follow. Kind of a Where’s Waldo thing. Not sure how much access to technology I will have, but I hope to be able to have some fun with some posts over the next 9 days. And after that, I have lots of things to cover, thanks to many of you that […]

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Hiking Camelback Mountain, Again

My first hike of Camelback Mountain was surprising. Surprising how hard it was for me! Hiking Camelback clearly showed what over 10 years of sitting can do to you. So on Memorial Day, I decided to do the hike again.
This time, I made sure to take extra water, start earlier, and eat something (a protein […]

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Memorial Day: Freedom isn’t free

There has been a great price paid for freedom and today we remember that.

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Phoenix Mars Lander: Today is the day!

The Phoenix Mars Lander is just nine hours (at the time of this post) away from landing! The Lander is part of the Phoenix Mars Mission from the University of Arizona, in conjunction with NASA. It was launched August 2007 and is about to finish a 423 million mile trip. I have been […]

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