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The Line Between Adventure and Insanity

On Sunday, I loaded up my three kids (ages 7, 4, and 3) our hyperactive , neurotic dog, a dozen suitcases, three bikes, and all of my sanity and began driving West toward Utah. I know…. Crazy. You see, my father’s family is having a reunion out in Southwest Utah and we had been planning...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Fri, Jul 30 2010
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Top Ten Things I missed in America

I loved our little trip to Ireland, but let me tell you, it sure is nice to come home. One of the nice things about going away, whether it’s to a foreign country, or to your aunt’s house for the weekend is that you invariably come back with an appreciation for home. I’ve found that...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Thu, Jul 23 2009
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A Family Trip to Ireland - Day 1

There are people out there who would tell you that you shouldnt take three young children under the age of the 6 on a trip overseas. They may be right. I don't actually agree with them but somewhere over the Atlantic at 2:00 am when I was trying to keep our 1 year old from crying and desperately...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Fri, Jul 3 2009
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Clean Living

We’re leaving on a house swap this Sunday. A “what” you might ask? A house swap. It’s like a wife swap, but instead of giving my wife to a stranger in exchange for his wife, we just do the same with houses. If we were to have a house swap key party, we would throw all of our wives...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Fri, Jun 26 2009
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Southland in the Summertime

On Sunday we began the first leg of our journey to visit family and friends spread out through the middle of the Eastern U.S. We drove from Maryland down to Tennessee and then from Tennessee to my parents’ home in Western Kentucky. From here we’ll head south to Memphis before heading back...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Wed, Jun 17 2009
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Travelin Thru'

I am off on a grand adventure, if you can call driving to Kentucky with three small children a grand adventure. Well, you can definitely call it an adventure - the “grand” part is still up for debate. Luckily, our kids are well adapted to long distance travel. We have always been a “car”...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Tue, Jun 16 2009
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License to Thrill!

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had an affinity for license plates. We traveled a lot as a family (I believe our family motto was “if there’s not a giant ocean in the way, you might as well drive) and I remember countless hours staring out the car window watching cars pass by. I loved...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Fri, Mar 27 2009
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Irrational

I went away this weekend for the first time in about as long as I can remember. I left my wife and kids and set off for three days alone. If you’re imagining three days of drunken male debauchery in Vegas, it’s not quite what you might think. I was actually travelling to Cincinnati (first...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Mon, Feb 23 2009
Filed under: Filed under: travel, Audra, Asher, Better off Dad, Micah, babies [Edit Tags]
Oh Stuckeyville, Where Art Thou?

We were up in Vermont a couple of years back and I fell in love with the state. It was beautiful and so ridiculously quaint that you wanted to start whittling something the moment you crossed the state line. We had a lovely time traveling the winding roads, ogling the beautiful fall foliage and sighing...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Fri, Nov 14 2008
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I’m Having a Mid Life Crisis and Didn’t Even Know It!

I have an embarrassing secret to share. The sad part is I didn’t even know it was embarrassing until recently. Ok, so last week my wife and I were watching Desperate Housewives (I am sad, sad, sad to report that this is not my embarrassing secret). One of the husbands on the show is going through...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Mon, Nov 3 2008
Filed under: Filed under: travel, Vacations, Better off Dad, stupidity [Edit Tags]
Skymall – Stuff You Don’t Need at Prices You Can’t Afford!

Ah Skymall, that vixen of a magazine that sits in front of you in the pocket of your airline seat. A magazine designed to make Sharper Image seem like a catalog of useful everyday necessities. A waterproof speaker that floats in a pool and plays music from my Ipod? How can I live without that? A $100...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Fri, Sep 26 2008
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So What Do You Want to Do Today? ..... I Don't Know, Go Look at Monkeys?

Yesterday I asked my 3 year old son what he thought we should do today. We had just put his sister on the bus and had a few hours of freedom. He thought about it for a couple of seconds and said: “I don’t know, maybe we can go look at some monkeys or something. I like monkeys. They’re...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Thu, Sep 25 2008
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Southern Wedding Part 2 - Barbeque, a Grits bar, and a Dutch Baby

After departing from Vulcan and his iron tuckus, we headed downtown. Downtown Birmingham has not faired well. There are still some high rises that are busy and a couple of cute areas, but by in large, the downtown is made up of one abandoned store after another. Very sad. We stopped at the Birmingham...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Tue, Sep 23 2008
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Southern Wedding Part 1 - Birmingham Smells Like Bacon

My wife’s college roommate was getting married in Birmingham this weekend, and since my mom was in town, we were able to go sans children – an extraordinary treat. So we packed out carry on bags and headed down to enjoy the deep fried festivities. As a son of the south, I was looking forward...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Mon, Sep 22 2008
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Sign, Sign, Everywhere Another Idiotic Sign

So, my favorite story that I came across last week (Aside from the fact that Sarah Palin named her son Trig Van Palin, because it sounded like Van Halen ) is about a small insignificant restaurant in China. Apparently, the restaurant owner was getting excited about the upcoming Beijing Olympics and was...

Posted to Better Off Dad by superdad on Fri, Sep 12 2008
Filed under: Filed under: travel, Better off Dad, Mississippi, signs, stupidity [Edit Tags]

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