by Cynthia Hogg | Apr 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
In 2017, my husband and I took our four oldest grandchildren on a 2,750-mile road trip that we completed in eight days. The oldest child was 9 and the youngest was not quite 5 and we spent 40 hours together in the car. You read that right. 40 hours! I’ll never...
by Cynthia Hogg | Apr 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Sea Bass My husband teaches philosophy at the university level. His area of expertise is Stoic philosophy and his “guy” is Epictetus, a Stoic Greek philosopher who lived in the first century and taught that philosophy is a way of life, not just a theoretical...
by Cynthia Hogg | Mar 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
My dream trip was originally planned for August of 2020, but we all know what happened that year. COVID put an end to everyone’s travel plans. That summer, I had hoped to take my oldest granddaughter to Prince Edward Island to celebrate her 12th birthday....
by Cynthia Hogg | Oct 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
My recent trip to Prince Edward Island with four of my granddaughters proved just how perfect Amtrak train travel is for grandparents traveling with grandkids. I call it GRAMtrakking. No, you can’t take a train to PEI. It is an island, after all, and although...
by Cynthia Hogg | Aug 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
I kind of fell into this trip at the last minute, without my usual preparations. I did – and didn’t – necessarily want to do it. Did, because I always enjoy taking trips with my grandkids and didn’t, because I had just returned from a 12-day...
by Cynthia Hogg | Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any more “exciting” (i.e. – stressful) in the week leading up to our trip, one of my granddaughters fell off our back deck onto the lower deck, resulting in a scratched up face and bloody nose, a...
