{"id":1732,"date":"2009-03-18T12:59:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2009-05-27T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T22:00:46","slug":"road-trip-photoblogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip Photoblogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, poor neglected blog!\u00a0 So where have I been?\u00a0 Off with Donna to Northern California, seeing family and friends.\u00a0 That’s my alibi, anyway, and here are some photos to prove it:<\/p>\n

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Dinner in Sacramento with Dick & Sheila<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dick is an old friend and squadron mate from the 32nd Tactical Fighter Squadron in The Netherlands.\u00a0 Donna and I and Dick and Sheila did a lot of things together back in the day.\u00a0 Dick’s a writer and occasional commenter at this blog, and I’m always flattered when he compliments my own writing.\u00a0 He did not fail to flatter me again this visit, and now my head’s all swollen.<\/p>\n

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The NorCal contingent of the Giustina family, with spouses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We drove up to Oroville for Aunt Joyce’s 80th birthday party.\u00a0 This is just part of Donna’s clan \u2014 there’s a bunch more in SoCal and some in Nevada.\u00a0 “My God, Donna,” I said, “does anyone in your family ever take a break to, like, eat, or watch a movie?”<\/p>\n

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Michael's cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of Aunt Joyce’s sons, Mike, is a chef, and this almost-too-pretty-to-eat cake was his creation.\u00a0 i love to cook and consider myself the equal, or the potential equal, of most cooks.\u00a0 Bakers, though, live with the Gods on Mount Olympus, and I bow before them.<\/p>\n

\"Dinner<\/a>
Dinner at South Lake Tahoe with Donna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carol Anne and Rob Giustina live at Lake Tahoe.\u00a0 Rob is Donna’s younger brother; he and Carol Anne married a couple of days after our own son married, and we were able to make both weddings.\u00a0 That doesn’t sound like much of a story, until I add that both weddings happened in the days immediately following September 11, 2001, and that the airlines had just started flying again.\u00a0 Rob travels around the world designing and building snowboarding parks \u2014 how cool is that?\u00a0 The young man sitting between Donna and me is Spike, Donna’s step-sister Sandi’s son.<\/p>\n

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Obligatory visit to alma mater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The day before we flew home I was able to sandwich in a visit to good old Sacramento State.\u00a0 In these inflationary times it has a grander name: California State University, Sacramento.\u00a0 But when I went in the bookstore to look for replacement car window decals, I found some that still say Sac State, so hooray for tradition.<\/p>\n

Did I promise doggie porn?\u00a0 I can’t remember if I did or not, but here’s some anyway:<\/p>\n

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Schatzi, the Whore of Babylon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I took this the morning we left for the airport.\u00a0 Schatzi watched us pack and knew we were leaving; I guess she figured if she pulled out all the stops we’d reconsider.\u00a0 Sometimes, though, you just have to harden your heart and do what needs to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, poor neglected blog!\u00a0 So where have I been?\u00a0 Off with Donna to Northern California, seeing family and friends.\u00a0 That’s my alibi, anyway, and here are some photos to prove it: Dick is an old friend and squadron mate from the 32nd Tactical Fighter Squadron in The Netherlands.\u00a0 Donna and I and Dick and Sheila […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}