Night Parade-Carnival of Nice 2019

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Alfred Hitchcock died on April 29, 1980, and won’t ever make a movie again, but he certainly earned his moniker, “The Master of Suspense.” Many Alfred Hitchcock movies are revered as classics to this day and some, (like Psycho and Rebecca, have inspired remakes. Writers and filmmakers who appreciate hisContinue Reading

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I was super excited when Ellen and Justin from The Time Crunched Traveler tagged me to participate in the Seven Super Shots series started by Hostelbookers. The Question If you had to sum up your most amazing travel experiences in just seven photos, could you do it? The Answer IContinue Reading

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Back in September of 2010 we visited Quebec City on our 10-day Canada/New England cruise. This was a Bucket List destination for me. It was even more powerful visiting it when we did because we were celebrating some huge milestones on that cruise: Wayne’s birthday. My 40th birthday. Our 15thContinue Reading

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Ninety-nine years ago yesterday Titanic struck an iceberg just before midnight on April 14, 1912. When it sank a short time later, at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, it claimed the lives of over 1,500 people. Last September we took a 10-day Canada/New England cruise. We started in New York and ended in QuebecContinue Reading

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Everyone has their most haunted cities lists, don’t they? In honor of Valentine’s Day I thought it’d be fun to recap the 14 most romantic haunted cities we’ve  jaunted to so far. (14 for February 14, get it?) You won’t see too many big cities on my list. Chicago and New YorkContinue Reading

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The other day I finally got around to piecing together the footage I took during our Ghost Tours of Quebec experience and made a little video of it. (It’s posted below.) However, afterwards, as I was driving to a volleyball game, I got to thinking about one part I had madeContinue Reading

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Adsila from Above the Norm left a comment on my post explaining the video I’d put together of our Ghost Tours of Quebec jaunt asking if we’d seen any ghosties. Funny she should ask. We saw a bunch of ghosties on our tour!  None of them were real, however.  You see, weContinue Reading

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Quebec City stole my heart. What a beautiful, romantic, haunted city! It was the final destination on our Canada/New England cruise and what a way to end the trip. The nice thing was all the time we had in Quebec. This would have been one of those ports I mournedContinue Reading

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  I’m devastated. Last night one of my friends I play volleyball with confirmed something I had started to fear over the weekend: even if the recovery disk gets my crashed computer restarted, it’ll do so with a clean slate. Meaning, anything I didn’t backup will be wiped out. DREADEDContinue Reading