The only thing my friend Julia and I planned prior to my visit to Phoenix was a behind-the-scenes tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. I’ve visited her periodically since she moved to Phoenix in 1991 but have not done many touristy things. We usually go hiking and frequent the botanical garden. This visit would … Continue reading Phoenix in Photos Part 1: Japanese Friendship Garden
The only thing my friend Julia and I planned prior to my visit to Phoenix was a behind-the-scenes tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. I’ve visited her periodically since she moved to Phoenix in 1991 but have not done many touristy things. We usually go hiking and frequent the botanical garden. This visit would … Continue reading Phoenix in Photos: Wright, Wrigley & other Wonder-filled Wanderings
It was an elaborate plan to get one of our vehicles from Idaho to Texas. I worked around an anniversary dinner in Houston, a wedding in California and a girls’ trip to a lake in central Texas. And I needed to be out of Idaho and Nevada before it started snowing. The morning after Don … Continue reading From Potatoes to Pralines: A Two Week Solo Roadtrip from Boise to Houston
The kids took over our house in Idaho for 10 days, so Don and I decided to take a road trip to southwestern Washington and several stops in Oregon. After an afternoon and evening hanging out with “The Bigs”, as they call themselves, we hightailed it to Washougal, Washington to hangout with my transplanted Texas … Continue reading On a Mission in Oregon
A friend of mine decided to make a big life change, gigantic, actually; sell her house in Austin, buy an RV, drive it to Alaska, work at a campground on the Kenai Peninsula for the summer, and then move to Vermont. And what does any of this have to do with me, you ask? I … Continue reading Rana, LuLu and Me: A Roadtrip to Remember
I knew I wanted to take a big family vacation for my 60th birthday and had my heart set on Scotland and Ireland. For one reason or another the dates never worked for everyone. The Galápagos was actually my second choice. Once we decided on our destination, everything fell into place. The dates were chosen, … Continue reading Galápagos – The Enchanted Islands
After several days in Lima, Peru we flew north to our second stop – Quito, Ecuador. Because Quito and Lima are both South America capital cities, I found myself comparing and contrasting the cities and countries quite often. Quito was once the northern capital for the Incan Empire, but when the Spanish conquistadors fought for … Continue reading Quito – Light of America
Don and I have been obsessed with Peruvian food since we discovered it before the pandemic at a beachside stand on Rockaway Beach in Queens, NY. It has become one of the foods we seek out when we travel. We first search for local foods and restaurants; next we look for our two favorite ethnic … Continue reading The City of Kings
It’s a bit surprising that I have visited all of the 50 states given that I was born and raised in a town where Mexico is closer than any U.S. state. In fact, I rode with my family down to Mexico before visiting another state. My first plane ride in early elementary school was surprisingly … Continue reading 50 States in 50(ish) years
Most of you probably know which states were the last two to join the Union: Alaska and Hawaii. They joined the United States in 1959 within months of each other. But you know which state was the one just prior to them? Arizona. In 1912. (New Mexico and Oklahoma are the other two states admitted … Continue reading Ditat Deus (God Enriches) the 48th State
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