In the last meeting with my manager he made a point to remind me that I needed to be taking some of the vacation days that I have been accruing and to not let them accumulate so high. OK, I can do that. My first request of the year is to take two days off, and to combine with a weekend to go to be with family in Kentucky.  We are all set to go. Got our tickets on Frontier Airlines. We have used them before and they were pretty good. We prefer them or SouthWest Airlines. They had the cheapest combination for the times we wanted. And, we got our parking reservations at Portland Airpark. Leaving the car with them is much better than at the airports economy lot. We have used them on the busy Thanksgiving holiday, and by taking reservations, we were assured that they would be saving a spot for us. 24 hour personal shuttle will take you right to your car, the lot is personally guarded 24 hours. Safe, reliable, friendly service. They will even give you a newspaper.

Now I see that the USA Cycling Master Road National Championships were awarded to Louisville this summer. Hmmmmm.