Marylanders On Vacation

— Time devoted to pleasure, rest, or relaxation, whether from school or from work.

2020

The year is 2020. A time of significant progress worldwide. We have achieved world peace. And men, as members of the one human race, finally landed on Mars. Interplanetary exploration has begun. Wait a minute, that is not how I recall that year. Must have been a wonderful dream. Ah, yes. Now I remember. Instead […]

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New Site

Hello and welcome! This site is a continuation from my old blog MarylandersOnVacation.blogspot.com. I’ve decided to move to WordPress in order to have more control over future posts. Don’t get me wrong, blogger is a good starting point for anyone wanting to try to blog. It is just time. The decision not to move the […]

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Moving to a New Site

 After many years, I have decided it was time to move the rest of this blog to a new platform. I will keep this site as-is but newer posts can now be found at MarylandersOnVacation.NormanTalon.com I hope that you will continue and visit us there. Thanks, Norman

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Branson, Missouri

Everyone looks forward to the yearly vacation. At least I do. One of the regular issues we meet is the question of where to spend our vacation. Sure, you can always get suggestions and you end up with the usual answers. “Let’s go to Orlando,  Europe or Mexico”. Been there, done that. Except for Mexico. A […]

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Branson, Missouri

Everyone looks forward to the yearly vacation. At least I do. One of the regular issues we meet is the question of where to spend our vacation. Sure, you can always get suggestions and you end up with the usual answers. “Let’s go to Orlando,  Europe or Mexico”. Been there, done that. Except for Mexico. A […]

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Aug 1, Niagara Falls

A few years had gone by since we last visited Niagara Falls. There were other options as far as where to go this year, Europe was certainly one. But, my Dads birthday was coming up in August 2 and they have never been to the falls, it just seemed like a better choice.This would mean that […]

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July 25, 2014. Start of the empty nesters?

July 25, 2014 is a new adventure for us. Today my kids go on their very first real vacation without their parents. Going on a 10 day European trip. Unfortunately for them but not for us, this isn’t an unsupervised vacation as they will actually be joining their cousins family. The trip will take from […]

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Salisbury University

It is a awkward time when your children reach that age where they would like to be independent, and you prefer that they not be. Driving is one of those activity that seems tot drive that home. As it was, my daughter wanted to drive to the beach this summer, no parents allowed. While I […]

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Paoli Pennsylvania. Apr 2014

Paoli is a census designated place (CDP) in Chester county, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The civil war era Paoli massacre occurred near Paoli, in an area now a part of Malvern, Pennsylvania. It is also where the home office of the search engine duckduckgo is located. Visiting Paoli on this day can hardly be considered a […]

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New York, New York. Nov 7, 2013 to Nov 8, 2013

I would not really consider going out to college visits a vacation, but I will make an exemption here. It is that time in every high school senior’s life when they must go out and decide, among all other decisions that need to be made, what school to attend during their college years. In the […]

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