Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
The temperature’s rising on another hot October Saturday morning in Texas. What makes this one different is the clump of 3-year-olds pushing each other over and mushing a soccer ball around an itty-bitty field. This is way more fun to watch than actual soccer, which has rules and stuff. Only rule here: no hands! So…
Grilled bell peppers, deer sausage and chicken for dinner with a spinach salad tossed with raspberry vinaigrette, dried cranberries, toasted pecans and feta. Mango for dessert and accompanied by my dad’s favorite California red from the Folie à Deux winery. We had this wine at Thanksgiving and now it always reminds me of family and…
A brief note about our Space A layover in Washington, D.C. en route to Germany: Space A is a lot like air travel in the 50s in that it takes longer and has more stops. Like in all of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels—Bond has to fly from London to New York to Miami to…
I-10 West—all the way home.View Larger Map The 958.9-mile drive wasn’t nearly as painful as I thought it would be, despite two yowling cats in the back. Dinner and breakfast amongst friends I’ve missed in Pensacola, several Alexander McCall Smith books on tape, traditional driving food of a DQ Blizzard, some nice sunsets and some…
I started this the other day…and then the movers came and took our internet distributor.Mary Poppins has nothing on us when it comes to moving with the change of the wind. Today was the first day to hint at fall with cooler weather—perfect because we had our door propped open all day for the movers….
Chris is still on pre-move vacation so we used Monday to get one of my last National Park Passport stamps in the southeast region: Fort Matanzas! This is that one south of St. Augustine we tried to go to right after non-hurricane Fay when it was closed. Before we even get to the monument we…
Day 1 1. Get up very early. 2. Buy Newschwanstein bierstein and postcards. 3. Hit the road! 4. Drive three hours. 5. Sit in traffic for a long time. 6. Drive another two hours. 7. Arrive at the airport in a panic just five minutes before check in! 8. Discover the flight has been canceled….
