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Winter Break 2015, Part 2: Corpus Christi & Padre Island

December 28-29, 2015 | SLIDESHOW | MOSAIC The Omni Over the decades I’ve stayed in a wide variety of hotel rooms: dirty and dreary, cheap and clean, elegant and expensive, and other combinations. For our winter break, I opted to … Continue reading

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Winter Break 2015, Part 1: A Trek to the Coast

December 24-27, 2015 | SLIDESHOW | MOSAIC The trek south to Corpus Christi via Checotah, Oklahoma City, and Austin Trading a Lake for a Gulf Wendy and I waited out the first days of Winter Break 2015, declining to make hotel … Continue reading

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Oxley’s North Woods

Trip Date: December 21, 2015; SLIDESHOW | MOSAIC Post by Granger I spent the first Monday of Winter Break doing some Christmas shopping in Tulsa, but the warm and sunny weather also lured me onto the trails. I’ve walked the … Continue reading

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Renovated Royalty on the Talimena Drive

November 22-24, 2015   SLIDESHOW | MOSAIC Our school district shifted to a full week off for Thanksgiving this year. That squeezed my students’ time to cover the material we must complete before the final exam in a few weeks, … Continue reading

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Return to Chandler Park

HIKE DATE: October 25, 2015; SLIDESHOW | MOSAIC In late October, circumstances prevented Wendy and me from going out on our typical Friday evening date, and we were unable to attend a former student’s marriage reception. But we were able to … Continue reading

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