Disjointed Photo Album

August 26, 2009

While editing photos for the parade I told you about yesterday, I got distracted looking at some of the photographs that we have taken. They are the ones that never became a post — but I liked them. That’s about the only thing they have in common. It’s “disjointed,” I know. But, it’s the way [...]

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Ghost Hunt at The Driskill Hotel. Part 2.

August 12, 2009

We continued traipsing through the halls of the Driskill in our search for some kind of ghostly presence. In the bar, the leering steer hanging on the wall was a bit frightening. I’m not fond of hanging dead critters on the wall, but then I guess the management had to prove that this is Texas [...]

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Ghost Hunt at The Driskill Hotel. Part 1.

August 11, 2009

They told me our room was a “haunted room.” Supposedly the Driskill Hotel has a lot of ghosts walking its hallways. We went to Austin, Texas to try to see one. Actually, we went to see the bat colony take flight from under the Congress Avenue Bridge, but staying at the Driskill was an added [...]

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I Brake For Historical Markers

July 8, 2009

How many Methodists can you pack into 256 square feet? I guess that was the question back in the early 1870′s, because this log cabin served as the first place of worship for area Methodists in Chico, Texas (Wise County). The tiny cabin was created from half-notched, rough-hewn, oak logs and, according to the historical [...]

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Luxurious Accommodations. Only The Good Friday

January 30, 2009

Do any of y’all travel for business? This is NOT what I usually see when I walk in the door of a hotel room! On my last trip to Beaumont, Texas I got lucky. Usually, I wind up staying in a hotel that is only “adequate.” Since I am working in schools, I’m done with [...]

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Even Magic Couldn’t Save It

December 8, 2007

At a conference once, I shared a hotel room with a gal from East Texas. I had never met her before, and I decided she had a really strange habit. It made me gag to watch her every morning as she performed her ablutions. She filled the sink almost full with water each morning. First, [...]

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Lest You Think Business Travel Is Exciting

November 27, 2007

I told you before that business travel isn’t exciting. I meant what I said. Y’all, I had stayed for one night at this “inn” a few days ago. I’m back for most of this week, but I’m not here by choice. It’s what my patron arranges for me. I don’t have to pay for it, [...]

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Thursday Thirteen—The Saga of the Hotel from Hell

May 23, 2007

Folks, I try really hard to get along with the world. I don’t get angry quickly, but when I do it isn’t pretty. I have told y’all that I travel for a living; I settle into my hotel room for a week, and that is my “sanctuary.” There isn’t anything glamorous about travel for work. [...]

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Zany Hotel in San Francisco

January 28, 2007

I realize that using the words “zany” and “San Francisco” in the same sentence may seem as if I am being redundant and repeating myself, also, too, as well. The City is a rather crazy place, which makes it my kind of town. We often book our airline flights and hotels on Travelocity. Last summer [...]

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Travel to Turkey Without a Passport

January 19, 2007

My travels as a storyteller have taken me far and wide. I’ve been to Paris, Dublin, Italy, Palestine, Turkey, Athens and Rhome. That is the correct spelling for Rhome. They are all in Texas. I have traveled outside of the Lone Star State. But, amazingly, some of the small towns right here in Texas afford [...]

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Haunted Eureka

January 5, 2007

Yesterday I wrote that my husband and I chose to stay at The Crescent Hotel when we went to Eureka Springs, Arkansas for a visit. I said that we wanted local flavor and didn’t want the intimacy of a bed and breakfast. I lied. We stayed at The Crescent, because it’s haunted. I confess that [...]

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