Did you enjoy this past summer? It went by so fast that I seem to have missed it. The weather was so cool most of the time that I barely used the air conditioner. Work and family kept me much closer to home than I had planned.
As far as staycations go, the highlight of my summer was a car trip to Gary, Indiana with my brother-in-law a couple weeks ago. He’s a disabled Vietnam veteran who was hospitalized for the last 3 months of 2008, and spent the first half of 2009 recuperating. I don’t know which of us had a worse case of cabin fever, but when he asked me to go to a reunion of his Marine buddies, I jumped at the chance.