Adventures are what provide us the memories of our life
together..
Perhaps the best reason to go on adventures is the time we
get to spend together.
Some of the adventures are big like the trip to the United
Kingdom and Belgium. Some of them are small - Lauren's kids visiting or
simple trip to the races, but they're still fun and exciting.
This
section should chronicle the most interesting.
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The smaller adventures,
outings and family affairs. Just special times. (last
update 12/22/09) The last several are Thanksgiving visit
to Atlanta in November, 2009; Victoria's Halloween Party in October of
2009; The Worship Team pool party in July 2009; and
Victoria's swim meet in January,20009. |
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Summer in Florida 2009 |
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Christmas 2008: A quick trip
to see family in Cincinnati |
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Summer 2008:
Alumni College and a short stay in Greeneville, TN. |
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Thanksgiving 2007: A
drive to Atlanta to see Nancy and a quick stop in Vicksburg |
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Summer 2007: Cincinnati for
Eric's graduation and Virginia for Alumni College |
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Summer 2006. A trip to
Shiloh and then Lexington for Alumni College 2006 as well as a week in
Florida for the entire family doing beach and Discovery Cove |
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December 2005
which, as usual, was packed with tree trimming, travel to both
Cincinnati and Rochester, New York. |
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Summer 2005 -
a collection of Hollinger family activities and trips |
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The
traditional trip north for the Christmas holidays - Rochester, Niagara
Falls and Cincinnati - complete with SNOW |
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Eric's and
Victoria's visit during July of 2004 |
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Alumni College
2004. A drive through the Blue Ridge Mountains and a week on
campus studying the Historical Jesus. |
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Holidays 2003.
First Thanksgiving with Eric's visit, then another, now annual, mad dash
north with Victoria to visit Cincinnati and Rochester. |
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Alumni College
in Lexington, Va. for 2003. Understanding the Middle East. Relaxation,
learning conversation, and great food. |
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2900 miles in 8.5 days! Bedford to Rochester to Niagara
Falls to Rochester to Cincinnati back to Bedford. Holidays with family
- this year Victoria came with us (!) and holidays with snow.
Christmas together even if we're traveling. |
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My 51st or "Over 50"
birthday party. While it was a surprise, I figured something was up when
Lauren asked me to both take Victoria to a movie and pick up Dave Ramzy
to bring him over to dinner. The house was filled with all the bike
team, several business associates and gambling machines to provide the
amusement. A great time was had by all it seemed. Jeremy spent the
night with his camera doing available light pictures. |
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Alumni College is something we love. It's college done
right. This year we went to two sessions. The first was a session on the
1960s termed "Hearts and Minds" and was a study of politics, literature,
music and art of the Woodstock decade. The second session was a "how
to" class on photography and digital manipulation of photographs. It was
an incredible time in Lexington. |
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On Mother's day, 2002 we took a break from Texas bicycle
racing, chores, typical routines to visit the Japanese Garden which is
part of the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. It was an adventure in that
for the time of our visit, we were not really in Texas at all, but
walking through an ornate oriental paradise. |
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From December 22nd through December 30th 2001 we did
Christmas. There was Christmas in Bedford with Jeremy and Victoria,
then Christmas in Cincinnati with Cora, Eric, Andie (and the whole
Brewer Family), then there was Christmas in Pittsford with Paula and
Father. We drove the entire 2250 miles .... quite an adventure. |
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On November 17th and 18th, 2001 Lauren, my
Father, Jeremy and I went to San Angelo, Texas. Dad grew up there, his
father is buried there and his mother lived there from 1924 or 1926
(depending on which version of the family story you believe) till 1967
when she moved to Rochester to live with us. We wanted Father's
perspective and insight into our family's past. We visited his homes,
Grandfather's grave and the old "Half-Circle H" ranch site south and
east of town .... |
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For two weeks in September of 2001
Lauren and I rewarded ourselves for the years of "Business Travel" with
some "Interest Travel." We flew to London - first class - stayed in a
great hotel in Westminster - 2 blocks from Buckingham Palace, traveled
by train to Edinburgh, Bath, Portsmouth, Oxford - Blenheim and took a
side trip to Belgium and France. It was not leisurely vacation but an
incredibly fun adventure in learning, seeing and experiencing. We had
fun being tourists. |
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July 1 through July 7th, 2001 Lauren and
I attended Washington and Lee's Alumni College. This year the subject
was the History and Culture of the American experience in the post World
War Two years, especially the 1950s. It was great! I enjoyed the History
while Lauren re-awakened her long forgotten talent of singing by
performing some songs from West Side Story! |
