Family Vacation 2025

 888 Waterfront Trails, LaFollette, TN 37766

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Family Vacation Swanton, MD 2020

 

A very nice house for our 2020 family vacation.
Wish Kim & Bill and Rosemary & Tom had been able to join us.

Convenient drive time for everyone to get to. Glad it was a 5 hour dive and not the day & a half to get to the beach, although the ocean has it's advantages!

It is still difficult to go....very emotional.

1st family vacation without Mom, 3rd vacation without Dad & Austin, Not sure it will ever be the same.

Glad we still go though.

Flight 93 Memorial

 https://www.nps.gov/flni/index.htm

An hour away from our 2020 family vacation.

Glad we went over to see the memorial.

Very quiet, somber place to visit, was not very crowded. Spent a few hours walking from the visitor center down to the crash site.

The hate involved to plan such an action...
and the strength and heroism to fight back and crash the plane...
after learning of the other crashes...
knowing what your fate would be.

Tower of Voices

 I would like to go back when they have all the chimes installed and working

Ocean Isle Beach 2020

1st time vacatioing here, did not have a very good time as it rained the 1st 5 dyas we were there.

The landscape and building was very nice, but the room was small, only had a portable air conditioner in the room.

NO COFFEE!!!

Very few restaurants for the number of people on the island, made worse by the Covid Virus and the restaurant seating limitations. Not really any attractions or things to do other than the pool, beach, and bike riding.

Family

2014

2020

 What a difference 6 years make.

A mixed bag of happy and sad feelings.

Glad that I have many, many happy memories of the past family vacations.

As far back as I can remember we have always done a family vacation.

I can remember an old green, wood side panel station wagon that we would sit in the back, rear facing seat and have the window down.

It was a blessing to have Gradma Bullen and Sue join us as much as they did. Were always part of our family. I hope then knew and felt that way as well.

Every single day I think of Mom and Dad. Good happy memories, but still makes me a lttle sad.

Growing up in Midland and Blanchester.

Playing near the railroad tracks, discovering what there was to find.

Hunting bottles along creek banks and hillsides on St Rt 68.

Climbing and playing on the Tank at the Reserve Depot.

Then there were the vacation to Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Seeing family from Panama City Beach. Walking the mountains or the tourist attractions in Pigeon Forge. To doing nothing but sitting in the sand.

Sad that those we love are only with us a short time and often we don't think to fully appreciate them or devote time to them while they are with us.

Orba Etta Bullen         10/06/1913 02/19/1970

Sue Anne Bullen 07/16/1941 10/16/2007

Chester Arnold Lansing 07/23/1942 04/10/2015

Austin Wyatt Rollins 07/12/2000 03/20/2018

Ruth Etta Lansing         11/17/1945 01/09/2019

Pigeon Forge TN

 

Outer Banks, NC