Plenty of moving

[mtbc]

I was thinking back to where I've lived over my life. I was born in Urmston in Manchester, my parents moved to a village in mid-Cornwall, I read for my degree in Cambridge and got a summer job there for my last break. After graduating, I moved to Columbus, Ohio, back to Cambridge, England, back to Ohio again: the cities of Columbus and Delaware, then rural outside Marysville. After that, New England: Providence, Rhode Island, then Belmont, Massachusetts. From there I took a job in Dundee, Scotland, lived in two different villages in Perthshire, moved here to Tennessee, first to a short-lease apartment, then a house, and am now to move to Aberdeen, Scotland. Quite a mix of rural and not. A result of these moves is that my eldest child attended seven different schools: two in Ohio, one in Rhode Island, two in Massachusetts, two in Scotland. We ensured that the children never had to change high school.

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[mtbc]

Ah, up around Cleveland. I like Lake Erie, it's almost like visiting and swimming in the ocean.

Columbus is great for events like that - easy to drive around, plenty of hotel and convention space, good variety of restaurants, fair airport for not-hub domestic, etc. I used to head out to Dayton sometimes to work with AFRL at Wright-Pat, of course we've mentioned the museum there already. (-:

[thewayne]

Yeah, we went to Ceder Point Amusement Park coming back from our honeymoon - rode all the wood roller coasters with pretty much zero lines!  Everyone else was queued up for the latest and greatest for an hour or more.  I think we had a much better time with no waits and still fantastic rides.

[mtbc]

Ha, great, yes, I never actually made it to Cedar Point, that I recall, though did to Geauga Lake (NE OH) and Kennywood (W PA) and, at the latter in particular, I too rode the wood more. Sure, the new ones are more thrilling and scary, so I did try a couple, but also queues, and the wood are pleasant fun. Also I often had little kids with me anyway. Queues are also why, at Eurodisney, I may have had multiple rides on the little train that just carries one around the park a bit!