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Manny the Sailor

February 22, 2013 by tchistorygal

In January Manny went to San Diego with the History Girls from all over California. Rumor has it that he got himself into some kind of trouble at the San Salvador. There were all kinds of displays there and the History Girls had a great time trying them out. But something happened, and Manny found himself ar the end of his rope. Just to prove it really happened, here’s the photo – unaltered by human Photoshop. Oh no!!! What do […]

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Categories: art, beach, Bears, California, Photography, Travel • Tags: History Girls, Manny, Marsha Lee, San Diego, San Salvador

Sunday Post: Unforgettable

February 19, 2013 by tchistorygal

Unforgettable means never to be forgotten, remarkable in a way that cannot be forgotten such as place, events or great memories. As much as I forget appointments, and names these are some experiences I won’t forget. I really thought parasailing was going to be much more thrilling frightening than it was. I waited until the two little girls that were on the boat with us went first. I figured if they could do it, I could. V did not want to […]

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Categories: beach, East Coast, Hawaii, Sunday Post, Travel • Tags: Colonial Williamsburg, horseback riding, Jakesprinter, Marsha Lee, parasailing, sunday post, Unforgettable

Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

December 30, 2012 by tchistorygal

January – Thirty years ago student teachers HAD to be a member of a professional organization as part of their graduation requirements. Although it is no longer mandatory, social studies teachers who join California Council for the Social Studies become the leaders in their field as they meet colleagues from across the state, and make friendships that last a lifetime. In January the CCSS Executive Board asked to serve as the First Vice-President, replacing a member who had moved to Colorado. […]

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Categories: beach, Blogging, California, California Desert, CCSS, Education, Experience, history-social science, Photography, Retirement, SJVCSS, TCHS, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Marsha Lee, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures

Document, document, document. We were here.

Ka’anapali Coffee Farms

November 4, 2012 by tchistorygal

Knowing that my husband is a realtor helps explain to you why this excursion is a must every time we go to Maui. We look at houses. No, we are not in the market to buy multi-million dollar houses even in Central California, let alone Hawaii, but once a realtor… The deal is that you build your dream home, but the coffee farm stays. There are several types of coffee here. We hit the jackpot this year. Fooled you – […]

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Categories: agriculture, beach, Experience, Hawaii, Photography, plants • Tags: Central California, Coffee, coffee plantation, Hawaii, Maui, photography, real estste

Who takes a phone call in a place like this?

Mama’s Fish House

November 2, 2012 by tchistorygal

Once in a lifetime you should save your pennies and head to Mama’s Fish House. OK make that save your $20.00 bills. To a mainlander it’s almost indescribable. Click to make reservations which you may need. We had just gotten off the airplane in Maui, got stuck in the Costco parking lot, and headed directly to Mama’s. The weather was picture perfect. It felt just as amazing as it looks here. There aren’t really any bad seats in this ten star […]

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Categories: beach, Hawaii, Photography, restaurants, Travel • Tags: HI, Mama's Fish House, Maui, restaurants

FAQs About Time Share Traveling

October 29, 2012 by tchistorygal

You all know that I retired two months ago, and we are still in the process of deciding how to organize our lives. V likes the comfort of being at home. I like home, too, but I love to travel. Last week we traveled. This was our third visit back to Ka’anapali Beach Club, and it feels like home. Curtis still works in the beach office. We know our way around KBC, and Maui. It is ALMOST as comfortable and […]

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Categories: beach, Experience, Hawaii, Travel • Tags: Beach Club, Hawaii, KBC, Maui, Timeshare

Timeshare traveling - not time traveling

Week at Ka’anapali Beach Club (KBC)

October 27, 2012 by tchistorygal

Do you prefer to relax or be very active on a vacation? Ka’anapali Beach Club, one of the Diamond Resorts in Maui, HI, might be a place you would enjoy. Timeshare travel differs from regular travel, and there is an art to doing it. Believe me, that is another skill I am learning as I move forward into retirement. At age 50 I had never been to Hawaii, never thought I would ever get to go, and was just plain jealous […]

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Categories: beach, Travel • Tags: Costco, Diamond Resorts, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, Ka'napali Beach Club, KBC, Lahaina, Lahaina Hawaii, Maui, Timeshare, United States

The Rest of the Trail Tale

September 6, 2012 by tchistorygal

I did say hoity-toity didn’t I?The beautiful people and their enviable homes are part of the view, but don’t get too close!We didn’t really mind. We can’t use our ultra-ultra close-up lens if you get too cozy anyway. Another of the plants I liked may be a bottle brush plant, but I don’t think so. The flowers look like purple fireworks exploding.And finally, no teacher is worth her salt if she doesn’t talk about schools. We came across a flock […]

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Categories: beach, California, Experience, Photography, Travel • Tags: beach, California, photography, Pismo Beach, Shell Beach

Shell Beach Bluffs Trail

September 5, 2012 by tchistorygal

We are going hoity-toity today. You have seen pictures of the cute houses in Shell Beach, some cottages, some much grander. Down the street towards Avila Beach is another section of Pismo Beach/Shell Beach called The Drifts. You would miss this public walking path if you didn’t know it was there.Vince and I parked in the pristine parking lot, and started out, but I had forgotten my camera, as usual, and I started taking pictures with my iPhone. The […]

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Categories: beach, California, Experience, Photography, Travel • Tags: Shell Beach, The Bluffs, Walking path

The Streets of Ocean Canyon

August 19, 2012 by tchistorygal

Envy made me to look at house after house imagining how I would look living inside their luxurious walls. RVs held the same fascination for me. I would go to the RV shows and drool over the $200,000 diesel Class A homes on wheels. No more. Now it is just fascination with the differences that people choose. A walk down the streets of OC is a lesson in all types, sizes and conditions of RV all commingled congenially within […]

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Categories: beach, California, Experience, parks, Photography, Travel

Ocean Canyon RV Park

August 18, 2012 by tchistorygal

The last time I went to the California Central Coast with my friends, we rented a house at Shell Beach for $175 a night (summer rates). This time my husband, puppy and I stayed in our trailer at a KOA RV park where we own a time share. The cost for this trip would have been $132 for two nights, but since we own the time-share it is free. Even the wi-fi was free this trip, but it is usually […]

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Categories: beach, California, Experience, Photography, Travel • Tags: Avila Beach, California Central Coast, Ontario, Park Model, Recreation, Recreational vehicle, RV park, United States

Beach Monster

August 11, 2012 by tchistorygal

Cover Girlette model, Princess Chloe, wondered which way to run! ”What was that? A MONSTER!!!!!! Was it moving her way?” She was poised ready to escape, but it seemed that monsters surrounded her. Wait, Wait! The MONSTER stretched out. Princess Chloe bravely bent down and touched the monster as it floated by her. She lifted the water monster high above her head. But what was this, lying under the long outstretched sea creature. Could it be a baby MONSTER lying […]

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Categories: beach, Experience, Fiction, Photography, Writing • Tags: Children, Evil laughter, Loch Ness Monster, MONSTER, Princess, Royal Family

Lincoln City, OR

August 5, 2012 by tchistorygal

A sunny day on the Oregon Coast is better than not gaining a pound after eating a gallon of chocolate and vanilla ice cream swirled with caramel and fudge and chocolate chunks all through it. AND not having your cholesterol move up a point either. Stand on the ledge, if you are not afraid of the careful cops that come around and tell you to get off. They do that when moms let their two-year old children stand on the brick […]

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Categories: beach, Photography, Travel • Tags: Lincoln City, Oregon Coast

Dinosaur Caves Park

August 4, 2012 by tchistorygal

Hanging out in Shell Beach means a lot of walking along the cliffs to see the ocean. (It’s called a “cliff hanger” town. JK) Navigating in Shell Beach entails climbing up and down levels and levels of stairs to get to and from the beach. You’ll stroll up and down nautical streets like Leeward, Palisades, Santa Fe. Along the main street off the freeway a myriad of small businesses beckon for your attention, amazing quaint places to coffee for breakfast, […]

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Categories: beach, California, parks, Photography, Travel • Tags: Dinosaur Caves Park, Shell Beach

Shell Beach Community

July 25, 2012 by tchistorygal

Shell Beach is one of the most beautiful, unique communities on the Central Coast of California. You find quaint little cottages that look like they were built in the 1940s right next to 2000 something mansions. I wondered if I about the history of the town. From my friend Google I discovered that “Floyd Calvert bought and developed much of the land in 1926. He paid $45,OOO for 41 acres between the ocean and the highways. When Calvert first […]

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Categories: beach, California, Travel

Shell Beach

July 24, 2012 by tchistorygal

Someone was setting up photography equipment. The photographer was nice enough to snap several pictures…. ”EEK water. My pants …” of my friends and me… Smile, smile, smile. (Why didn’t I roll up my pants? I have a bathing suit on and…) smile, smile smile. Shell Beach is hand-made for weddings. It would not be my first choice simply on the basis of hair and veils and what the wind would do to them, and sand in my shoes and […]

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Categories: beach, California, Experience

Thinking Outside the Barn

July 22, 2012 by tchistorygal

In most businesses, the excitement is inside the store. Not at the Barn Store. Excitement is not in the air either. It’s on the grounds. People love to ride things, and watch people riding things. Bring back the 50s where we all sat on a pony dressed in a cowboy outfits. The pony walked around the yard – or it didn’t, and practically every child within 5 years of my age in either direction has that same picture of themselves […]

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Categories: animals, beach, California, Travel • Tags: Petting zoo, Pony, Recreation

The Ultimate In Barns

July 22, 2012 by tchistorygal

If an advertising firm hired you to design the ultimate barn, what would it look like, where would it be, and what would it have inside? Old wooden barns dotted the highways in Indiana, or pieces of them left standing in the middle of fields, and we teased my grandfather who was always looking for a new place to house his business besides his garage. ”A new shop for Grandpa” had to be totally dilapidated, the worse it looked […]

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FAQs About Time Share Traveling

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Week at Ka’anapali Beach Club (KBC)

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Shell Beach Bluffs Trail

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The Streets of Ocean Canyon

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Lincoln City, OR

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