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Letters to Charlie #10: July 11, 1909
I don’t know about you, but each time I make a discovery or connection in this series, I get really stinkin’ excited. I'm astounded how 109 years after these letters…
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Letters to Charlie #9: June 30, 1909
Two big things happen in this installment: Charlie’s high school graduation, and another letter. But this time... it’s not from Dora.
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Vagabond Life: Hotel Pepper Tree
They know us by name at the Hotel Pepper Tree. They even know our favorite room. Fellow traveler Misty at the front desk shares an interest in unique lodging, and…
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Letters to Charlie #8: June 1, 1909
Instead of my usual pre-pontificating, let’s get right to the letter and talk about Dora’s words about baseball, automobiles, and gentleman callers on the other end.
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Vagabond Life: Yorba Linda Airbnb
This Yorba Linda AirBnB had three really great things going for it: a 1948 Ford parked out front, an awesome Golden Retriever named Tucker (who I kept calling Baxter), and…
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Letters to Charlie #7: May 9, 1909
My big plan of catching up by June 30th (so I can begin posting on correlating date) got derailed as I fell down the rabbit hole of research again, trying…
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Letters to Charlie #6: April 1909
Hello friends of Dora and Charlie! I had a brilliant idea, one I should have thought of in April. The idea is this: Post the letters on the date of…
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20th ANNIVERSARY VOWS
To My Husband: Sometimes you meet a person and know they’ll be something important in your life. During our first conversation in 1990—when our new boss asked me to videotape…
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Vagabond Life: Downtown Santa Ana Airbnb
The first time we stayed in this downtown Santa Ana studio in November 2017, I was alone--and totally freaked out. Let me set the scene.
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The Peculiar Things That Happen During Live TV
So… does this awesome video of a T-Rex dashing through the background of our Tuesday liveshot make up for the bazillion dummy Latin emails that bombarded subscribers during my latest…
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Vagabond Life: Park Santiago AirBnB
Orange County gets a bad rap. While recently chatting with a new friend in the desert, the classic look of disdain crossed her face when I mentioned Orange County—the Oh, I…
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Vagabond Life: Tree-House Airbnb
Sometime in the middle of the night, the gentle patter of rain woke me. I looked out the window to the near full moon lighting up a tangle of branches…