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100 Years of Celebrating Father’s Day

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of Father’s Day being celebrated in the United States.  The annual holiday was started back on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd to honor her father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, who had raised her and five other siblings on his own after their…

A Clip Show: My Top 10 Articles

I have been fighting the flu all week. But today it just has hit me so hard and I have been bedridden most of the day. So I felt the need to break out the old clip show idea for today’s update. According to one definition online, “A clip show is an episode of a…

All Hail Vail: Colorado Ski Town is not Just a Winter Destination

Located 100 miles west of Denver, Colorado and 8,000 or so feet above sea level, the city of Vail has a great reputation for it’s amazing ski slopes and other snow related activities. But what if I told you that this resort town was also a vacation hot spot year round? Well I learned that…

Hitting The Road Again

It has been a long six weeks since my last adventure. I can honestly say that I’ve been itching to get back on the road since I got back from Europe on June 30. That was of course my three week excursion throughout the beautiful Eastern European country of Poland, which you can check out…