January 13, 2026
I’ve been trying to dig out, after being significantly behind on my blog posts for some while now. I didn’t update the blog while I was in Scotland. And on our return, we had a period of time where we relocated to Michigan, while we got our floors done at the house. Another period of time where I wasn’t that up to date on things.
I’m happy to say that recently, I got through all the photos and videos from our last trip to Scotland. And they’re posted!
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December 21, 2025
A travel day, heading from Chicago to Indy. We were reminded that there’s an incredibly nice rest stop on the way at the Kankakee Welcome Center.
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November 30, 2025
Overnight, we got a really big amount of snow. With the end of Thanksgiving and tons of other folks headed home, we opted to try to leave earlier in the morning.
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November 17, 2025
Downstairs, we moved the front door against the fireplace. While the floors here have been stained already… we were waiting for a final buff/varnish. With all the work happening on the second floor, we decided it would be efficient of we cleared everything… and allowed the flooring guys to work on both floors at once.
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October 23, 2025
Back home, I get a text from her – and it’s a selfie! With her and our neighbor, Anna!
Turns out, they were both on the same flight (leaving Midway, arriving Georgia)… and only ran into one another afterwards, soon after departing the plane.
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September 14, 2025
A travel day for us, heading back to the States after an incredible 17 days revisiting and exploring Scotland. We’re in Edinburgh, but need to head back to drop off our car rental, and catch a flight from Glasgow Airport.
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August 27, 2025
It’s the big travel day! We have a late night flight that leaves O’Hare, so we both ended up working a full day. But then got the house all packed up, got the water line shut off, the lights on timers, and reset the AC for vacation mode.
As is tradition, we paused for a small dram to kick off the departure.
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August 26, 2025
Excited for so many things: distilleries, coos, driving on the wrong side of the road. I’ll be updating photos afterwards, but for now… maybe look back on photos from our first trip, way back when.
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August 25, 2025
Ultimately, we’ve started to group locations/places we’re interested in for a given area. And while some of the major things are locked in (tours or dinner reservations), we’ve got enough items to keep things flexible.
And hopefully, we can be as busy (or lazy) as we want.
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August 24, 2025
Liz and I have a big trip coming up. We’ve been planning a lot, long before now. But with our departure date fast approaching, things are starting to get real.
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July 31, 2025
Travel day, from Chicago to Whitehall. It’s not quite a big Thanksgiving trip, more of a quick weekend visit to try to spend time with the kids before they head off to college.
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June 8, 2025
A long travel day. I woke up (somewhat) early again, and got on the road after a bit of hanging out.
Instead of driving straight home, I headed out to Berwyn to pick up the bunnies. Before that though, I stopped at a grocery store to pick up some veggies (and had the bright idea to get ingredients for a stew).
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June 5, 2025
As I as nearing her house, I was on I-465 headed East towards Meridian, when I spotted this. It was a bit dangerous, but I managed to snap a photo with my phone without careening off the road.
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May 30, 2025
Travel day for us. After a full day of work, Liz and I packed up our things and hopped in the car headed for Northville, MI.
It’s a bit of a trek (4 hours or so travel time, but we take the hit of adding an extra hour due to the time zone difference). We got to our hotel fairly late, and ended up just unloading, settling in, and plopping into bed.
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May 25, 2025
Nothing really to report. A rather stationary experience (sitting in my seat on the plane, sitting in my seat in the car). We trekked over many miles, but we just slowly clawed our way home.
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