Here it is in its entirety, ver­ba­tim from the orig­i­nal — Gen­eral Thanks­giv­ing By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of Amer­ica A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowl­edge the prov­i­dence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grate­ful for His ben­e­fits, and humbly to implore His protection […]

The next day we left the fan­tas­tic Caribe Hilton for Fajardo so that we could hop the after­noon ferry that would take us out to the island of Vieques. The drive there was annoy­ing; stop lights, hor­ri­fy­ing traf­fic (which would plague us the major­ity of the trip), funny store front signs (Drinker’s Irish Pub, China […]

We flew from Dal­las to San Juan, which clocked in at around 5 hours. The kids were great on the plane and Pey­ton slept part of the way there, which made it eas­ier on us, and because of that we also got to relax just a lit­tle bit before we hit the ground run­ning. Our […]

Kim and I had wanted to take the boys some­where else pretty cool, much like we did last sum­mer when we vaca­tioned in Italy for a month, and that was an amaz­ing vaca­tion, but this year we were a lit­tle more strapped for cash than last year, and trans-Atlantic tick­ets don’t come cheap. Brain­storm­ing ensued, […]

On almost every sin­gle episode of Blue’s Clues the human char­ac­ter (either Joe or Steve, or in the UK, Kevin) and the dog Blue “ski­doo” some­where, which is an amaz­ingly sim­ple form of tele­port­ing (trans­port­ing one­self from one place to another instantly), whether onto the sur­face of a globe or into the image on a […]