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Car Classic by the Sea
Cars and hats were the order of the day, so we brought both. Megan and I have never had a car in a car show, but the Alfa Romeo Owners...
Chuck Marra
Nov 1, 20212 min read
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The Lost Abbey
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Benjamin Franklyn reported said that, and I wholeheartedly agree. The...
Chuck Marra
Sep 6, 20213 min read
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Modern Times
It was a warm day, and a drive down the Coast Highway again was just what I needed. I headed down to Encinitas. Just feet before the...
Chuck Marra
Aug 28, 20212 min read
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The Mission at San Luis Rey
It was a day for a beautiful drive. I left the coast in Oceanside and the road heated up quickly going east. The ocean was behind me...
Chuck Marra
Aug 20, 20215 min read
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A Good Cafe on Pleasant Drive.
Then there was the hot weather, and the need to find some sort of escape from it. If you head east from Los Angeles and just about when...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 13, 20212 min read
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The Pier in Oceanside
At home, I am a local living in a tourist town, so it is nice to be a tourist in someone else's hometown. To see what they live in. day...
Chuck Marra
Aug 7, 20213 min read
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The End and The Beginning - Santa Barbara and Back. September 15, 2020
This was going to be such a fun day and start to a great fall (no pun intended). We were going to drive Sophia up to Santa Barbara to AA...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Sep 15, 20206 min read
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Day 15 - California and Home Again - September 2, 2020
We've driven the I-15 back from Vegas maybe 50 or sixty times, and I love it, but it is a whole different drive in a ragtop. From the...
Chuck Marra
Sep 2, 20203 min read
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Days 12-15 - We'll Always Have Paris. Aug 30-Sept 1, 2020
The sights and smells of a casino at three in the afternoon are delicious and intoxicating. The the sweetness of fresh pastries, charred...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Sep 1, 20206 min read
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Day 11 - Tucumcari to Flagstaff - August 29, 2020
The next morning, we packed the car, Richard makes two different brews in the morning. He is kind of a coffee aficionado. And what we...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 29, 20205 min read
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Day 10 - The Road to Tucumcari - August 28, 2020
The sun burned down on us and the air was still. The large metal sign in front of us informed us rattlesnakes were nearby; just off the...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 28, 20203 min read
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Day 10.1 - The Historic Motor Court - August 27
Night had fallen and a desert chill had taken the air, by the time we pulled off the interstate. It was as if we had sailed on a fast...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 27, 20204 min read
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Day 9 - Oklahoma City Memorial - August 27
We hadn't planned on going to see the Oklahoma City Memorial. We had to get on the road. We still had half the country to get across and...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 27, 20204 min read
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Day 8 - Beale Street Blues - August 26
I had always wanted to see Memphis and still do. Just about everything was closed due to the Covid-19 shut down. Streets were quiet. ...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 26, 20202 min read
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Day 8.1 - Straight through Arkansas - August 26
With not a lot of time to spare, we decided to cross the Memphis Arkansas Bridge and drive straight through Arkansas and get to Oklahoma...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 26, 20204 min read
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Day 6 - Like Family That We Had Not Yet Met - August 25, 2020
We had to direct some VoiceOver pieces and do a few classes so we stayed put in Knoxville for one extra night. Too bad we didn't get to...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 25, 20204 min read
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Day 7 - Nashville to Memphis - August 25, 2020
With only so many days left to get to the California DMV and register and smog Sofia, we had planned our milage and our stops carefully....
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 25, 20205 min read
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Day 5 - Durham to Knoxville. The Adventure Begins... August 23/24 2020
We left Durham this morning at 8:30; half an hour later than we wanted to leave, and half an hour earlier than we thought we’d actually...
Chuck and Megan Marra
Aug 23, 20203 min read
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Day 4 - Farmland and Shaved Ice - August 22, 2020
Today, we left Durham for a bit. We took the backroads of North Carolina east through farm country to meet some of Laura's family, and...
Chuck Marra
Aug 22, 20202 min read
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Day 3 - The Woods of Chapel Hill - August 21, 2020
The woods of Chapel Hill are as magical as any I have ever seen. We had taken Sophia from Durham to Chapel Hill up to meet our great...
Chuck Marra
Aug 21, 20202 min read
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Day 2 - Durham - August 20
We woke up late; must have been 11 a.m. There are pictures of me sleeping that will never see the light of day because I look like raw...
Chuck Marra
Aug 20, 20205 min read
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Day 1 - August 19, 2020 Part 1 15 Days to California -
We woke up early, in Maryland. We pulled back the curtains to find it was raining. It looked like it was one of those long stormy moody...
Chuck Marra
Aug 19, 20204 min read
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Day 1.2 (Part 2) Good Morning, Baltimore.
The rain stopped. The clouds were still grey and heavy. We drove about a mile before we turned on a small country lane and stopped. We...
Chuck Marra
Aug 19, 20203 min read
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Day 1.3 Richmond to Durham - August 19, 2020- (Part 3 ....it was a long day)
Back on the I-95 now driving south. Our final destination for today will be Durham, North Carolina, but we have one more friend to visit...
Chuck Marra
Aug 19, 20203 min read
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