Mystic

Middle-aged Midwesterners associate it with pizza and a young Julia Roberts. Midwestern transplants associate it with tourism. And locals carefully distinguish it from the town next door. But I now associate Mystic with R&B, who moved there with their 3 sons from South Bend, where they arrived with only 1 son from Hyde Park, where [...]

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Wallingford

After the two-emergency vacation I took during the 3rd week of June, my #1 hope for July was five days of crisis-free traveling. Guess what: Mission accomplished! Friday night, July 22, I flew out to Connecticut to bop around with college friend BAP.  At last, I saw the remodeled Wallingford dream house (super comfy!) and [...]

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