It was just over two months ago that I made all my travel arrangements for my husband and me to fly out west to visit family in Boise. It is a trip that I have made perhaps a dozen times in the past decade. My younger brother has lived there for many years. My father […]
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Sadie and I pause on a snowy trail, both feeling positive after a challenging year healthwise As the end of the year fast approaches, I wanted to look back on a year that was filled both with challenges and even more blessings. Almost exactly one year ago today I was with my 13 year old […]
I spent this morning tying up loose ends for my trip to Sicily tomorrow. I am going there with a small group of travelers on a 9-day tour of the island with Maine Public Radio. I have never been to Italy and it will be my first solo overseas adventure. The grind of international travel […]
I am just starting my 65th year. I have had a rich and full life so far and I am nowhere near ready to retire to an easy chair and let the world pass me by. There are so many things I want to do, and see, and experience. Travel has always been a big […]
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines exotic as “strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusual. Madagascar certainly lives up to that definition. We just returned from a two-week vacation in Madagascar. Just getting there involved a 5 hour drive to Boston, a shuttle to Logan Airport, a 7 hour flight to Paris to connect with a […]
A few weeks ago I read an opinion piece in USA today in which the author proudly proclaimed that he had just returned from a vacation in Hawaii and had only taken one great photograph. In fact he said it was the only one he had taken during the entire trip. His feeling was he […]
Last month I confidently wrote about an upcoming solo trip I had planned and arranged on my own. I was unabashed in expressing the pride I felt in knowing that I was able to coordinate this 10 day journey involving three separate airplane flights, overnight visits in Idaho with both my younger brother and my […]
In my blog last month I talked about an important wedding in Alaska that had caused us to delay our annual mud-season road trip south. In the six weeks since, we did complete our road trip as planned, touring Harper’s Ferry, northern Georgia, Hot Springs, AR, The Land Between The Lakes, and Ohiophyle and […]
My travel planning experience goes way back to when I put together my first adult adventure, a trip to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada. I was a senior at Fresno State University and was waiting to hear if I had been accepted into a master’s program in Exercise Physiology and Sports Medicine at […]
I am a child of the 60s. Although I was born in 1955, the first five years of my life are understandably a bit foggy. But once I entered kindergarten in the San Fernando Valley in suburban Southern California, I became much more attuned to the world outside my own family and neighborhood. In addition […]
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