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🏕️ Long Island Camping Prep: A Three-Hour Tour (or Four, or Five, or Six)

Sunday March 23rd, 2025 At the end of May I have a campsite booked out on Long Island. I have never taken the Long Island trains or busses, so I don’t know how they operate. Do they take tap to pay like the NYC busses and trains? Is it a flat fee to get on,… Continue reading
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🏝️ Coney Island Is Cold in March

Friday March 14th, 2025 Today my partner Lauri and I traveled deeper into Queens today to play tabletop games with friends. Tabletop games with friends is always a good time. Saturday March 15th, 2025 I send a lot of postcards to my friend Tony in Michigan, but I have been trying to branch out more… Continue reading
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🌿 Herbs, Colbert, Postcards

Tuesday February 25, 2025 A postcard shipped inside of newspaper. The recipient of this postcard in the UK shared an interest for World War II postcards. This card was an old one and flaking apart a little bit, so I took the advice from another postcrossing user and I wrapped it in a free newspaper… Continue reading
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👊 That Time I Got Punched on The Subway

Saturday February 15th, 2025 Rakugo! らくご! I’m losing track of how many times we have gone to see Katsura Sunshine, but we have a blast every time so we keep going. Every month we get a new amazing rakugo story and we buy tickets to the next show on our way out. If you ever… Continue reading
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🎂 When Dump Cake and Discord Collide

Thursday January 30th, 2025 Tony bought a cotton candy machine at Target! Neat! Friday January 31st, 2025 Tonight is the big game. The Detroit Pistons vs the Dallas Mavericks. Giant foam finger prepared. LET THE GAME COMMENCE! It’s always fun to go to a live game, but I must tell you a story from this… Continue reading
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🪨 The Painted Rock Chronicles: Museums, Munchies, and More!

Friday January 24th, 2025 I am currently in the middle of my friendly visit to Michigan and one of our plans is to make some Bob Ross paintings. Acrylic paints have been acquired. In this picture, though, we are attempting a side quest. Our goal is to find rocks, paint them and then hide them… Continue reading
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🎤From Rakugo to Rigoletto: Wintertime Fun

Friday January 3rd, 2025 I continue to enjoy sending postcards made of “stuff” to my pal Tony in Michigan. Today’s postcard is a banana sweet’s box and the conversation on the back of the card is about my upcoming trip to visit Tony. Saturday January 4th, 2025 Today we went to the romantic musical comedy… Continue reading
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💸 Oceanic Money Has Been Sent To Michigan

Friday December 20th, 2024 I still have a stack of letters to write. These come in a booklet and they are a nice choice when a postcard doesn’t have enough room for the message I want to send. I could probably insert flat items such as book marks in one of these. The downsize is… Continue reading
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📔 The Book of Good Times & Tom’s Juice

Friday November 29th, 2024 The Book of Good Time is a book by Hank Green which recently completed a round of Kickstarted funding. I have never backed a Kickstarter project until this and I am happy to say that last night, the book arrived! As yesterday (Thanksgiving, the day we went to the Macy’s Thanksgiving… Continue reading
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🦃Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

Thanksgiving – Thursday November 28, 2024 Today will be cold. It will be wet. And we have nice tickets to a seated area of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The day starts off very early as we’ll we need to be in line by a certain time and because the busses and trains are a… Continue reading
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🌉 Paterson Great Falls NHP

Sunday November 17th, 2024 The plan today is to head over to New Jersey to get a national park passport stamp at Paterson Great Falls and to also to take a walking tour that is hosted by a park ranger. Getting the stamp for my passport book is the goal, but it feels more meaningful… Continue reading
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☸️ Broadway Roulette Tickets – What Show Will We See?

Tuesday November 5th, 2024 A postcard to the Czech Republic. Or Czechia. I know the name changed, but I keep seeing folks who live there refer to it as “Czech Republic” and I’m certainly not going to correct them. The profile for this postcrossing has the suggested topic “What is the most useless item?” I… Continue reading
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#BookOfGoodTimes – I Drew A Turtle In The Dark – Sort Of

November 29th, 2024. Astoria, NY. 34° F (1° C) My copy of The Book of Good Times has arrived in the mail. This is a Kickstarter project by Hank Green and I am excited to say it is the first Kickstarter project that I have ever backed. This book ticks several checkboxes for me: creativity,… Continue reading
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