Showing posts with label National Park Travelers Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Park Travelers Club. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

All the Presidents Men and Women

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Today, we finalize the layouts for the President's Dinner at the 2021 NPTC convention. One photo we try to get each year is a group of a...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Dinner Companions

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Welcome back to the President's Dinner at the 2021 NPTC Convention. I don't have many photos from the event. We began with a cocktai...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

The Train Gang

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Welcome back to the 2021 NPTC Convention in Washington, DC. This post marks the beginning of a look at the President's Dinner — the trad...
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Friday, September 19, 2025

And the Winner Is...

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Today, the blog continues its look at the 2021 NPTC convention. You'll remember that I posted my Saturday morning adventure as one of t...
Friday, July 25, 2025

The People on the Bus

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This post takes a look at my next adventure at the 2021 NPTC Convention. On Friday, my friend Melania joined me on one of the buses as we ma...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Welcome-Bienvenido-Benvenuto-Aloha

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Technically, THIS is the start of the 2021 NPTC Convention. Everything else I did in the last few posts (Eisenhower, Clara Barton, the Navy ...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Training Time

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This week, we start the journey to DC for the NPTC 2021 Convention. As I made my preparations for the convention, I realized that most of Wa...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Kicking Off the Album

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In this post, we begin a new journey. It's time to highlight the 2021 National Park Travelers' Club Convention, which we'll expl...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Bonus Post--Broccoli For Breakfast

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 Hi all! I am playing along with Lasting Memories today. To fulfill the challenge, I created this page that is part of my July 2021 beach tr...
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Friday, January 3, 2025

Meeting Virtually Everywhere

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On Saturday, I donned my new convention shirt. We had a special one produced with a logo indicating the virtual convention, and everyone was...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Shirts on Our Backs

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This post is going out on New Year's Eve. I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday season and will be ready for more of my National P...
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Friday, September 20, 2024

Madness in the Desert part 25--The President's Dinner

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After the meeting, we cleared the room and in the fastest turnover I've ever seen, we had dinner at large round tables in the same space...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Madness in the Desert Part 24--And the Award Goes To...

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One of the best parts of being President is getting to hand out the certificates and plaques to our Platinum Award winners and the Lower 48 ...
Friday, September 13, 2024

Madness in the Desert part 23--Guest Speakers

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Our guest speakers included the local superintendent for the 3 Flagstaff parks, one of the rangers, and a Route 66 National Trust representa...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Madness in the Desert Part 22--The Meeting

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Saturday is the day for the big convention meeting. As president, I am the emcee. Here's a secret--we have a convention book that has th...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Madness in the Desert Part 12--Wish You Were Here

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The day after the train trip I had signed up both Jim and myself for the bus tour of two of our host parks and other Flagstaff attractions. ...
Friday, July 5, 2024

Madness in the Desert Part 3--Embrace the Rainbow

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At the convention, it is tradition to wear convention shirts on certain days (typically you wear the current year on Saturday for the meetin...
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Friday, June 28, 2024

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

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It's time to feature the albums from the 2019 National Park Traveler's Club convention in Flagstaff Arizona. I created these albums ...
Friday, March 10, 2023

The Great Western Journey Part 12--The Big Meeting

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Saturday is the day for the formal meeting for the club. As a board member, I have other meetings to attend in the morning. The main meeting...
Friday, March 3, 2023

The Great Western Journey part 11--Come and get it!

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 Time to start album #2 in the Great Western Journey. This post is sort of the "middle" section from Mount Rushmore. Our bus trip ...