The Vacation That Went On and On has finally ended. Locations visited: Phoenix, Surprise (or East LA, as Tom calls it), Youngtown, Sun City, the Grand Canyon -- all in Arizona. Then San Diego in California. Band camp for Ellen, Sarasota for Ian, and New York City (by way of friends in PA) for Ludvík and me. And then Old Town, Portland, Trenton and Bar Harbor in Maine.

We hiked, sailed, performed a solo, played paintball, napped, hiked some more, walked on beaches of two oceans, saw a bear, hiked some more, visited friends and family ... and I'm sure there's other stuff I'm forgetting.

We also said goodbye to Ludvík. He left Portland for NYC and on to the Czech Republic on July 18th. He went back home taller, heavier, and with a lot more hair. We miss him a lot; good thing we've got e-mail and chat.

I have a zillion pictures, and it's going to take a while to go through them, resize them, and load them up. Here is a start: Fort Knox in Maine.

Stay cool --

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