Summer in Seattle
Since our daughter was already living in Seattle for her postgraduate studies, as soon as we learned our son had secured a summer internship with …
Travel
All posts involving travel
My Mother-in-Law
As I write this blog this morning, my 93-year-old mother-in-law is sitting next to me at the dining room table. Everyone else is off to …
Puppy Love: International House and Pet Sitting
As our idea about retirement continues to evolve, we have discovered that house and pet sitting is an amazing opportunity to step into someone else’s …
West by Northwest
Not out of the woods yet Two years into the Covid pandemic and we’re still not out of the woods. Omicron, the latest variant, forced …
The Azores (Portugal) and Greece
Summer 2021: Travel Resumes By June 2021, the pandemic was starting to loosen its grip, and countries were beginning to open their borders to fully …
COVID-19 Changes Everything
2020-2021: Travel Grinds to a Halt Abbreviated COVID-19, the coronavirus disease was first detected in China in 2019. As it spread across other countries it …
The Beginning
2000-2020: The First Twenty Years At the start of the new millennium, the world was expecting chaos, planes falling out of the sky and such. …