Welcome to my weekly update for January 19, 2025! My husband worked last weekend so we didn’t do any touristy stuff. I’ve gone back in time to October to share some pictures I took while I was on a blogging break. We flew to São Miguel, the largest island in the Azores, for a week in early October […]
Welcome to my weekly update for January 12, 2025! I hope any of you who are in the Los Angeles area (or your friends and families) are safe and well. Fires are so terrifying. My thoughts are with all those who’ve been affected. Despite my best intentions, I missed posting last week. I admire those […]
Welcome to my weekly update for December 29, 2024!
I hope everyone who celebrates had a wonderful holiday week! My husband had to work too close to the holiday for us to fly out to visit any family so we had a nice, quiet day at home in our RV. He made a crème brûlée French toast casserole for breakfast that was delicious […]
Welcome to my weekly update for December 22, 2024! As a reminder, sign-ups are open for my 2025 Books in Translation Challenge and my Southern Literature Reading Challenge. These can be as easy or as difficult as you’d like, with the levels starting at just one book for a successfully completed […]
Welcome to my weekly update for December 15, 2024! Since we had recovered from our Thanksgiving colds, my husband and I decided to drive from Phoenix up to Sedona last weekend and spend a few days. This was our first visit and we fell in love. It’s gorgeous with all the towering red rocks but […]
Welcome to my weekly update for December 8, 2024! My husband and I picked up lingering colds the week of Thanksgiving so we’ve been taking it easy for a couple of weeks. We’re planning to start exploring again this weekend. There’s so much to see around Arizona! One of our first excursions when we arrived […]
Welcome to my weekly update for December 1, 2024! I hope that all of you who celebrate had a happy Thanksgiving! Since my last update on September 15, my husband and I wrapped up his work assignment in Schenectady, NY; went on vacation to the Azores (Islands practically in the middle of the […]
Welcome to my weekly update for September 8, 2024! My husband has a lot of long weekends on his schedule suddenly so we took the opportunity last weekend to visit Connecticut and Rhode Island, two states we haven’t visited before. We only count a state as “visited” once we’ve actually done […]
Welcome to my weekly update for September 1, 2024! I didn’t have anything to report on the personal front as I wrote last week’s post but that weekend we visited New York City. For all intents and purposes, this was my first visit. I’ve never been drawn to large cities because I’m not a fan of […]
Welcome to my weekly update for August 25, 2024! This has been a quiet week so far so I don’t have much to report on the personal front. If you were here last week, you know that my local-for-now library was having a contest to name their new carts. I voted for Wheel Gaiman but I was in the […]
Welcome to my weekly update for August 18, 2024! I made it back for a second week in a row! Woohoo! On Tuesday, we went to Lake George, NY. It’s a beautiful, clear lake nestled in the Adirondacks. We took a ride on a steamship called the Minne-Ha-Ha, named after a character in Longfellow’s […]