Day One: I’m going to a museum today. It opens at 9:30. I figured that would give me plenty of time to have breakfast and watch the local news for a bit. But then I somehow slept until 10:15. TEN FIFTEEN! I haven’t slept that … Continue reading Michigan 2024 Trip Report (Days 1 and 2)
A day and a half from this instant, I will be in the air again. The airport experience should be a bit different this time. It’ll be my first time flying with velcro shoes, so the security line would probably be easier than it typically … Continue reading Flying Will Be Different This Time
HEY! It’s been over six months since my last hodgepodge post. Well, since the last one I actually labelled as a hodgepodge post. And, in digging through my old digital photos this morning, I ran into a pocket of hodgepodgeable folders. Three of them, to … Continue reading Revenge of the Hodgepodge
Two days ago, I underwent elective surgery on the balls of my eyes. I mentioned recently that I was putting off summer travel until I get LASIK. Well, when I finally got my LASIK screening, I learned that there’s something newer and better (for some … Continue reading Eyeball Surgery
I’ll be keeping today’s episode of ThrowBack Thursday short, partly because I am recuperating from elective eyeball surgery, and partly because I still have a lot to iron out in regard to my next trip (which is only 11 days away). It was September 2007. … Continue reading California (September 2007)
Hey! It’s Thursday! Time for another ThrowBack. We begin our voyage with Cedric’s employment status. At the beginning of April 2011, I was starting a new job with a government contractor. I would be working at the Denver Federal Center, but I had to spend … Continue reading Chesapeake Bay (April 2011)
Before I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), I only knew one thing about it: that it causes tremors. I had never dreamed of the cornucopia of symptoms that I now get to experience on a daily basis. Case in point: Dry Eyes. From time … Continue reading Dry Eyes
Have you ever thought to yourself (or to anyone else) that you’d like to be able to go on a scenic mountain hike without having to spend a bunch of time in the car to get there and back? If you said / thought Yes, … Continue reading Royal Arch and Flagstaff Mountain (March 2011)
The date is finally set for my Refractive Lens Exchange surgery. Assuming I pass one final evaluation at the end of this week, I will get my bionic eyeballs on July 31st. Now that I know that, I can finally begin planning my summer trip. And I’ve decided to go to Michigan in mid-August. My plans include four museums (including two railroad museums), two national lakeshores, two state parks, one rock arch, one historic fort, and far too much fudge. And I will report it all to you here, on Voyages With Parkinson’s!
As for the rest of the year, I’ve decided to drop my earlier idea of going to New England for the foliage. Instead, I will take my annual Colorado trip at the end of September / beginning of October. I can only hope the aspens will be as stunning as they were two years ago.
It was a different time. A more innocent time. A smellier time. What the Hell am I talking about? I don’t know. But it was definitely late July of 2010. I was road-trippin’ from Idaho to Colorado and had but one day on the itinerary … Continue reading Tetons and Yellowstone (July 2010)
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