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Dana and Jared in New Orleans
Sandy and her friend Marjory Kaplan joined Boston Fit Running Club in 2010. Sandy was training for her fifth marathon in Athens Greece and Marjory was training for her first half marathon in Newport Rhode Island. It was at Boston Fit that Sandy met Dana Weigel and Susan Myers and later Gayle Oulighan. After doing…
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Rebecca and Adam in New Orleans for Mardi Gras
Rebecca Yang and Adam Caper have visited us before in Paris, Rome, San Miguel de Allende and now in New Orleans. They usually visit over Thanksgiving as that is around Adam’s birthday but this time they grabbed the primo Mardi Gras week. Sandy and Rebecca were colleagues at Lahey Clinic where they forged a bond…
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Tokyo, Day #1
We started our trip here by waking up at 4am in Boston planning on flying to Toronto and then on to Tokyo. Instead our flight out of Boston was delayed by four hours due to Air Canada computer problems. The best solution they came up with was flying us to Toronto where we stayed overnight…
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Susanna in New Orleans
Susanna Lee was a Radiologist whom Jim first met in the early 80’s when they both worked at New England Memorial Hospital in Stoneham Massachusetts. When the hospital went bankrupt and closed in February of 1999 they both ended up at Lahey Clinic. Susanna was always the first person to arrive at our Christmas Open…
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Katiti and Bill in New Orleans
Jim first met Katiti Kironde on our front steps in Boston about nine years ago. They hit it off immediately and then ran into each other on the street or steps a few more times. Jim very wisely collected her contact information at one of the initial meetings and invited her to our annual Christmas…
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Gayle in New Orleans
Sandy met Gayle around 2005 when she was hired as a travel nurse in the PACU at Lahey Clinic North in Peabody. Usually Gayle’s assignments are only for a three month term but she enjoyed the position and liked living in New England so she kept extending for a full year. Gayle and Sandy have…
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Donna in New Orleans
We first met Donna Quirk in the bar of 75 Chestnut street at a get together of runners and we had to pay her tab because she did not have cash or credit cards. She and Sandy ran in a road race together the next weekend and have been close friends ever since. Donna has…
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Sigi and Paul in New Orleans
Sigi and Paul stayed in a hotel their first two nights in New Orleans as they arrived earlier than they had planned and we only have two bedrooms. The positive side of this was that they were able to spend time with Peggy as noted in the last blog. We first met Sigi and Paul…
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Peggy in New Orleans
Peggy Scott moved into our neighborhood in 2007 and she literally changed our little section of Beacon Hill. She made friends with everyone and introduced us all to each other making it a much friendlier and loving neighborhood. Since selling our home in 2020 she has opened her home, heart and auto to us. We…
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New Orleans with the stalkers
Our stalkers, Andrew and Dick have sold their homes in Sitges Spain and Berlin Germany and have purchased another home in Palm Springs California. Very sadly, their companion and friend of nine years, Henry the English Bulldog, died recently and a trip to New Orleans is a welcome diversion for them.
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New Orleans with Neil & Audrey
We moved to this city on December 1 and were alone to explore until December 22. We spent a long weekend in Ponte Vedra Florida with our oldest son, Jason, and his family December 15-18 and our oldest daughter Jennifer flew here with husband Rob and son Jackson on December 22 just hours before we…
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New Orleans
This is a city that we have visited a couple of times and the last time we left with no desire to ever return and yet here we are moving to New Orleans for a three month winter stay. Our winter stays have always been the most problematic as we are not attracted to the…
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El Camino de Santiago, León to Astorga
Our two days in León have been very pleasant and restful and we are ready to head on out towards Santiago. We have finished the easiest part of this Camino and will soon be hitting the mountains and unstable weather of Galicia. Jim has walked this section with our daughter Emily in 2015 and is…
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León
We arrived in León early morning and can’t check into our hotel until after noon so we had some time to explore the city. León is a city on the Bernesga River in northwest Spain with a population of over 200,000. It’s home to many churches and cathedrals noted for their architecture and art.
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El Camino de Santiago from Burgos to Leon
We really enjoyed our time in Burgos exploring the city, resting and taking care of ourselves and meeting up with our Camino Amigos who also happen to be in the city. It still amazes us how our fellow pilgrims come and go. Stopping for one day allows some of them to catch up with us…