Dwight Peck's personal website
Summer
2009
Things are looking up again
After a half-wasted winter, now we've got maddening months at work, trying to migrate a very large Web site to a different technology, and no end in sight. It's time to take a break and, as luck would have it, Kristin's coming here for a visit -- and then we're going there for a visit -- and at the end of it, everything's looking up again, in this part of the world, anyway. [Click on the photos to proceed.]
You
may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a
good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught
up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.
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Late May, Kristin's visit: a hike over La Dôle with Joe and Teny, et al
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Evading barbed wire in early June, and packing for France
Off to Southwestern France, early June 2009
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Tagging along wherever Kristin may lead us in southwestern France.
First stop, Salers
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Then Conques
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Castle-hopping near Salers
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Bourdeilles
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Brancôme & environs
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Oradour, atrocity central
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Périgeux, and Collonges-the-Red
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St Céré and the Château de Montal
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Rocamadour
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Château de Castlenau
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Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne
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Puy-de-Dôme
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Additional hikes in the Jura, June and July 2009
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Crêt de la Neuve, July 2009, and lots more
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Lisa's birthday on Swiss National Day, 1 August: with Téa, Lisa, and Andrea in Thonon, France
Trip to Wisconsin, USA, in August
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Getting married on the dock, 17 August 2009
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"Honeymoon", if you will, on Lake Superior
What's next? Lots of unused leave time built up over the past 18 months at work, so we're off to Devon for a few weeks in October, after a weekend at the Lac de Taney with Alison. Then Kristin's back again in December, good snow by then, we can hope. Retirement in January, and going onto a halftime work schedule for the future, with lots of ideas about how to use all that unaccustomed leisure.
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Feedback
and suggestions are welcome if positive, resented if negative,
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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 27 September 2009, revised 30 August 2014.
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