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Bus rides

Bus rides

Patagonia requires a lot of time getting there on planes, buses, and taxis. I thought we would like the doubledecker bus for the long rides, so we could see the sights, but we both found it a little too much like a ship. The side to side swaying made us both a bit...

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Money

Money

One of my many worries was changing money in Argentina. the official rate is 350 Pesos to One US Dollar, but the "Blue Market" rate is higher. We went to the official exchange office in El Calafate, but they were out of money and told us to try the restaurant next...

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11/21/2023

11/21/2023

Today was a thrilling but physically exhausting day. We hiked to the base of Los Tores. One of our Australian hike-mates recorded 33,000 steps (he had real long legs), 22Km, and 315 floors climbed and descended,

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Santiago

Santiago

We spent one dusty hot day in Santiago. We stayed at the Holiday Inn at the airport. We took a taxi in to town and rode the cable cat to the central lookout. Then we figured out how to use the subway and bus to return. That was our own little adventure!

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This Day in Dad’s Photo Scanning

This Day in Dad’s Photo Scanning

These photos came up today in "on this day in the past." Evidently Dad saved these pictures on this date, and now my One Drive shows them to me on this date. This is an eclectic bunch!

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Dad’s Birthday

Dad’s Birthday

Today was my late Dad's Birthday. Here are some photos of him. The first one is Dad burning huge blocks of packaging Styrofoam in his fire on Lyndell. Lisa was horrified, but that was my Dad - he lived life by his own rules! Media OLYMPUS DIGITAL...

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Hot Day in July

Hot Day in July

At some point in the past few years I saved one of my Dad's photo archives from an external hard drive to my OneDrive. So they keep showing up as "memories on this day." Today it was 95 degrees in real life in Lancaster, PA, but these photos showed up:

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DRJ

DRJ

DONALD JACOBS DIED 2020Saturday, February 111 Donald R. Jacobs, 91, died February 11 in the family home in Leola, where he lived his active retirement years since 2002 with his beloved wife, Anna Ruth. During his passing, Don was surrounded by his loving family as he...

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Kellys Run 2023

Kellys Run 2023

I asked ChatGPT to make up a story about our hike. I forgot to give our names! Here are my instructions and ChatGPT's artificial intelligence created story! write a short story about 2 brothers hiking Kellys...

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