To prepare for one of my most anticipated trips, I read a novel set in Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains, checked the weather, and consulted ChatGPT for a packing list. That didn’t seem quite enough, so while in the airport and on the redeye flight from NYC to Morocco, I read parts of National Geographic’s … Continue reading Marrakech: Doorways to New Perspectives
My final tour was the morning of my departure in the Roosevelt Row (RoRo) neighborhood which began with a simple question (mine). Are palm trees native to Phoenix? They are not. Most of the palms you see in Phoenix today were imported from California and Mexico during the early 1900s to make the city seem … Continue reading Phoenix in Photos Part 4: RoRo Street Art
The next morning we started our day with a behind-the-scenes-tour of Taliesin West, the southwestern home of Frank Lloyd Wright’s apprenticeship program. He and his third and final wife, Olgivanna, had a house on the campus as well. Wright grew up in Wisconsin, attended college for less than two years and as a 20-year-old moved … Continue reading Phoenix in Photos Part 3: Taliesin West and Wrigley Mansion
Since the Heard Museum was not far from our last stop, the Japanese Gardens, we decided to hop on over. Before this trip, I had never heard of the Heard (see what I did there?) but soon learned that it was one of the leading museums devoted to Native American art, history, and culture. It … Continue reading Phoenix in Photos Part 2: The Heard Museum
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
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