Category: Travel
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Crazy Coincidences Leading to Utopia
Reading Time: 4 minutesMy brother Denny called me a few days before we arrived at my mom’s. He said he met a guy in Manitowoc who had a 77-foot (end to end) sailboat moored in front of the Cobia Submarine Maritime Museum on the river. He was walking along the riverfront one day the week… Read more
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How Mammoth is that Cave?
Reading Time: 4 minutesBeing retired is great. No getting around it. I am rich beyond imagination by the definition that true wealth is control over your own time. After our little jaunt to Gatlinburg (we didn’t check into the house until the third night after we left Florida) we meandered our way up to Wisconsin… Read more
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Change of Scenery
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI love living at the beach but as I’ve said many times before, sometimes you’ve got to travel away from the paradise you live in to see people you love. That’s what happened this week. We’re spending time in the mountains with Randy’s siblings and their spouses. This is the view… Read more
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In-Laws and Out-Laws
Reading Time: 4 minutesSeveral years ago, before COVID totally disrupted everyone’s lives, Randy’s immediate family made plans for a mini-reunion in conjunction with a trip to visit the life-sized Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. We ended up cancelling once and rescheduling, then cancelling the second time because COVID was….well, a disaster.… Read more
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5 Days is Not Long Enough
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re wrapping up our visit this morning to the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri where we lived for 23 years. We flew in Monday morning and we’re flying out this morning, Friday. That’s just a hair over 96 hours to spend in a place we loved, with people we care about… Read more
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Home
Reading Time: 4 minutesIf I asked you where home is for you, what would you say? In September, Randy and I are headed to Gatlinburg, Tennessee where, with 2 of his sisters and 1 of his brothers and their spouses, we rented a house. Gatlinburg is sort of centrally located between Missouri, Wisconsin, North Carolina,… Read more
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What a Circus!
Reading Time: 5 minutesI don’t know what it is about retirement. Maybe my mind is not cluttered anymore with all the things I need to think about and retain now that I’m not committed to a paying job for most of my waking hours. Or maybe it’s just that, like the old joke about how… Read more
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The Path Between the Seas
Reading Time: 4 minutesI think I’ve mentioned in previous posts that 10-15 years ago I got interested in American History in a big way. That led to putting an item on my bucket list to read a biography of every president in order. I am not so much interested in the individual presidents as people… Read more
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I Broke My Foot Off
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt was January 1993 (I think). Twenty years after I’d graduated from junior college, I finally collected enough classes to qualify for a bachelor’s degree. Photo by Bruce Christianson on Unsplash That evening I took my very last final exam. We were living in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Folsom, CA in… Read more
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About That Bubble
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn my short post explaining why we decided to take our very first cruise, I said people have always been the reason we’ve never taken one before…the anticipation of so many people in so little space. That turned out to be true. Cruising, at least the kind we did, involves lots of… Read more