Category: Travel News

  • Travel Cancelled

    I am not leaving town this summer break. The friend that said I could stay on their sofa in New Orleans turned into a mega sewage bag, and demanded triple money and free car rides. My car broke down. Then my teaching job did not pay me for several days of work I did on my check. This made me cancel my visit. A fall visit in October would be a far better plan anyway, and would make my summer more restful. The friend and dating river is filled with manipulative sewage, and I am not playing that game. This is reason number one million I am fixing up a travel RV as “you can stay on my sofa” is often code for “I plan to rip you off” in travel conversations.

  • Texas Delay

    My Summer travel is not going to include Texas. Car repair issues are putting that on delay.

  • Air Today

    Air today on the East Coast, and this includes Virginia.

  • Memorial Day Memory

    This year marks the anniversary of the death of my father lieutenant colonel Neil Menzies from his war wounds in Vietnam and Korea. He was in the Army, and he died of his combat wounds when I was 4 years old. He is wearing his uniform in this photo, and I am the baby. My mother’s father also died of combat due to a plane bombing over Japan in WW2 and so the women in my family are many generations of war widows. Memorial Day is always a sad day for us yearly.

  • Truth of the Day

    Truth of the Day

  • Travel Delay

    It turns out my trips to New Orleans and Austin are going to be after mid July of 2023. Family illness has caused a change of plans as I have to house and pet sit. Oh well no early vacation start this year after I finish teacher work before Summer break.

  • Change Beds

    When you try to switch beds to sleep better.

  • Visit to Texas

    I am going to Texas this Summer. If any Austin area friends are reading this please message me if you are okay with me sleeping on your sofa for a couple of days in the Summer. I am homesick for Texas, and teachers have Summers off.

  • Old is New

    By Andrea Menzies

    In the world of high technology everything old is new again. The newest Insignia Fire TV has one heck of a TV antenna in it, and a great channel search for broadcast TV. As people flee cable TV in masses due to streaming services being better people are switching back to the airwaves for local news. Newer televisions now flaunt an antenna. Everyone at my house now has a Fire TV with an antenna put on it.

    “They doubled my cable bill.” Said Anne Brockett before shutting off the cable. I agree it has been ridiculous for a while.

  • Friends List Cleaning

    I am doing a friend’s list cleaning due to stalkers online. I tried online dating as I hate being single, and horrible people said psycho things to me. Then when I would not date them they wrote mean things on my Facebook. How pathetic is their life that they had nothing to do but harassment of a single mother on Mother’s Day weekend? I have hated all the men I have dated in Virginia, but Virginia men have shown me new levels of pathetic this week.