I went out of town last week with great plans for what I would accomplish. I would care for and play with my granddaughter, of course, but babies take naps, and surely I would have some down time. And then I got to the security line at the airport in […]
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Post-Pandemic Travel for a Joyous Occasion
I recently returned from my first out-of-state trip since the pandemic began. Actually, it was my first trip of more than 100 miles from home since October 2019, when my son was married. The occasion this time was my daughter’s wedding in Seattle. I worried about getting there, as the […]
Continue readingRandom Photos: An October Trip Back in Time
My husband and I have taken many nice autumn vacations in September and October. Some of these autumn trips have been to Colorado, the Grand Canyon, Glacier National Park, San Francisco, and a Rhine River cruise. And, of course, we’ve also made trips to see family in Seattle, Washington, D.C., […]
Continue readingAdult Children and Random Trips in June
June is a good month for travel. Most places are not yet too hot, yet the weather is reliably warm (usually). As I searched for a topic for today’s post, I came across photographs of a couple of trips my husband and I took in past Junes. 2007 and 2008 […]
Continue readingRandom Photo: Summer Visit in Virginia
Now that we know where most of our boxes are after our recent move, I decided to open a box of photographs and post about a random photo. My selection wasn’t entirely random. Summer is drawing to an end, and I told myself I would use the first snapshot I […]
Continue readingTenth Anniversary Celebration in the Virgin Islands
Today, November 26, 2018, is our 41st wedding anniversary. I’ve been on a “forty years ago” kick recently, and so I started wondering about our first wedding anniversary. Unfortunately, I have no memory of the day nor of any celebration of our first year of marriage. November 26, 1978, was […]
Continue readingTo Russia, at Long Last
One of the prime selling points of the Baltic Sea cruise for me was the scheduled stop at St. Petersburg. I had studied Russian in high school and college. I’d lived in the Russian dorm at Middlebury College for one year and eaten countless meals at the Russian table in […]
Continue readingOur Alla Tour in Helsinki
As I mentioned recently, my sister did most of the planning for our Baltic Sea cruise. She decided to use Alla Tours for the St. Petersburg shore tour, rather than the cruise line (Celebrity). As she and I explored at the Alla Tour options described on their website, we found […]
Continue readingMore Beaches to Write About
As I’ve written before, any year is a good year when I get to walk on the beach. This summer, I’ve walked along two beaches and seen several others. The first beach was in California—on Balboa Island in Newport Beach. My husband and I took his mother to visit in […]
Continue readingI’m Back!
The reason I took most of July off from blogging is that I’ve been traveling a lot in the last couple of months. First a trip to the Los Angeles area in June, and then a cruise on the Baltic Sea during the first half of July. I couldn’t write […]
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