Southwest Vacations

Back by popular demand, Southwest Vacations has launched our Las Vegas MGM Show Ticket Deal! This sale has always been one of their top producing offers, so don't miss out on this amazing offer. On top of that, they have also added 5 more terrific deals. Save big on a Labor Day weekend getaway, or plan a trip to Universal Orlando®, Reno, Phoenix, or Charleston. The vacation options are endless! Go to http://www.gettingaway.com/directory/us/NV/cities/Vegas/main.htm for more information.

San Diego

Well, we are back in San Diego again with our grandchildren. We try to take them someplace in the RV 2 or 3 times a year and one of the trips is always to San Diego as they love it here. We found a great RV park a few years ago and that is where we park. It is only about 50 yards from a station for the trolly so we can park our Class C and never have to drive it anywhere after we get parked. Sure saves on gas as, not only can we get around everywhere we want on public transportation, but we do not have to use the extra gas it would take to haul a vehicle behind our RV. Gotta' go - it is off to Sea World.....AGAIN!

" Baby Doc"

Sorry for not posting, but I have been ill for a while. Feeling better, and now I am back but, I'm really feeling ILL now. Why? I just saw on Fox that "Baby Doc." is back. This guy practically destroyed his country, took off with most of their money (Most of which we sent to Haiti), and now has been welcomed back with open arms by the country. He probably needs more money - our money.

When will our government learn? Are the people in Washington just stupid or what? When will be begun to understand that the most important "undeveloped country" we need to help is ourselves. Americans, wake up. Contact your congressman and demand, and I mean DEMAND that more money be spent in America than it is in other countries. Let other countries fight their own wars and fix their own problems. We have enough of our own. More tomorrow!!

Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a very happy beginning to 2011.


My New Year's resolution is to try and post a travel special or travel related item every day this year, along with an occasional comment on the current events of the day.


For today, I have just finished Fall of Giants (you can find it on Amazon which is on my Book Page of Getting Away) and it was great. I have long been a fan of the great spy thrillers of  Follett and found this to be one of his best in historical fiction. His new book inaugurates what is to be a trio of historical novels (called the Century Trilogy) that showcases the lives of five families from all walks of life and involved in various ways with the issues of the day from the outbreak of WWI to the early 1920s and reflecting these issues over a broad geographical range, the families here being from Britain, the U.S., Russia, and Germany. If you like historical fiction, you will love this one.