It had been twenty five years since I’d last visited Toledo. I was a student and had just wrapped up the best six months I’d ever had. I had learned to converse in Spanish which was a great boost for my academic ego and had a lot of fun on top of it. I had…… Continue reading Trip to Toledo Spain
Category: Travel
Places I’ve traveled.
Trip to Paris
It has been twenty two years since I last visited Paris. Unfortunately I didn’t write much about that visit except in this entry from December, 2000. I was a student then wrapping up my six months studying French in Lyon and Besançon. My fellow students are now mothers and fathers with teenage children living the…… Continue reading Trip to Paris
Trip to Maui, Hawaii
I have been completely drained of energy since our return on a Thursday night red-eye flight after a fun yet exhausting five day trip to Maui, Hawaii. Part of it is probably jet-lag, another part is that I’m 44 and finally I’m most likely in an energy deficit since the trip was nonstop activity for…… Continue reading Trip to Maui, Hawaii
Thanksgiving 2021
It is Saturday morning on December 4th, 2021. The past two weeks have been extremely busy to due holiday and work travel. I returned home just last night at 10:30 PM and do not plan on leaving my house at all this weekend in order to recover. We went back to Ohio for Thanksgiving and…… Continue reading Thanksgiving 2021
Reflections on the Summer of 2021 – Ohio, Beach Boardwalk, Wineries and Yosemite
It is 7:52 AM on Monday, Labor Day, of September 6th 2021. I’m writing from my favorite new perch, my standing desk on the second floor overlooking the street. The sun is almost to the point where I must roll my desk to the small wall space between two windows so it is not shining…… Continue reading Reflections on the Summer of 2021 – Ohio, Beach Boardwalk, Wineries and Yosemite
Sunday Morning
The morning after our very first camping experience Sweetwood campsite in Half Moon Bay
Las Vegas and Death Valley
We took a trip to Las Vegas and Death Valley during Indigenous Day weekend. School has those days off but not work so I took two days of PTO on Friday and Monday. The question was where to go? We can fly for free but it is on standby so it had to be somewhere…… Continue reading Las Vegas and Death Valley
Portland
We took our very first day trip by plane yesterday and it was an adventure indeed. I work for an airline and the flight benefits are fantastic. They are standby but since we can see the loads of the plane know which flights will be full and which will not. The problem however, does not…… Continue reading Portland