davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

Playing Catch-Up... yet again....

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28 November - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"Ugh! Airport pizza! I shoulda had breakfast before I left!"

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29 November - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"How many connecting flights?"

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30 November - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"Time zones, connections, lay-overs... I have no idea

where we are or when we are... but hey! This same suitcase

went to Rome in 1960 during the Olympics!"

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1 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"Ahhh... Estrella in Barcelona! It's been a long time -- eighteen years, in fact!"

(Yes, the girls have been traveling for a long time.)

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2 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Roman amphitheater in Cartagena, Spain

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3 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Castles in Spain: Malaga

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4 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"I thought this was Africa! Where are the elephants? And the giraffes?"

Grand Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco

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5 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Yasmin boards a "hop-on / hop-off" tour bus in Cadiz, Spain

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Yasmin climbs a cathedral bell tower in Cadiz, Spain

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Cadiz Navidad! Bratz Yasmin gets in to the holiday spirit in Cadiz, Spain.

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6 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Transatlantic voyage: first full day at sea and a

wake that disappears beyond the horizon

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7 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Transatlantic voyage: second full day at sea.

"These life rings are just for show, right? I mean,

we won't really need them... will we?"

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8 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"... and a grey dawn breaking."

Transatlantic voyage: third full day at sea.

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9 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Transatlantic voyage: another sea day, another "specialty act" in the ship's theater.

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10 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Transatlantic voyage: another sea day, and visions of sugarplums are dancing in our heads.

Probably just delirium.

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11 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"And the smoke so black from the old smokestack

Goes a-floatin' up to heaven and it won't come back!"

Transatlantic voyage: entering cursed waters - The Bermuda Triangle

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12 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Transatlantic voyage: unlimited dessert buffet!

"This is the real reason we're here, right?"

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13 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Transatlantic voyagers: the world travelers add another adventure to their list -

crossing the Atlantic Ocean by ship

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14 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Miami. Airport. Rain.

"We're back in the real world, aren't we?"

"And this flight... these flights... are gonna suck, aren't they?"

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15 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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UAS: Ukulele Acquisition Syndrome - Las Vegas

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16 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"We gotta get out of this place."

The melancholy tedium of bland earth-toned upper-middle class suburbia

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17 December - A Doll A Day 2024:

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"Do you remember when we lived in a place we were always excited to come home to?"

"Yeah. That was kind of long time ago now, wasn't it?"

"What happened? How did we end up... wherever the hell this is, living in whatever the hell that is?"

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