I’ve been interested in photography since my dad gave me my first SLR (Single Lens Reflex) when I was about 12 years old. Not only did we take photographs together while we traveled, we would come home and go […]
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Weekend Travel Inspiration – Donald Ritchie
I love Japan. I lived there for three years when my daughters were teenagers, and what fun we had. I love to think of the above quote with Japan being an old time friend that I can only visit […]
Weekend Travel Inspiration – Dave Barry
You can get through anything if you laugh, right? Dave Barry might be poking fun at family travel, but the lesson is to just laugh it off. We have traveled with our kids, and our friend’s kids, and Girl Scouts, and school […]
Weekend Travel Inspiration – Bill Bryson
Don’t you just love maps? I don’t mean the GPS (Global Positing System). I mean a map. A real map. Preferably made of paper. You know the kind that is way too big and unwieldy to hold on your […]
Weekend Travel Inspiration – Mark Jenkins
For some reason, unknown to me, this has been the year of the repeat. By that I mean, we have gone back to more places during the course of this year than we have ever done before. We went to […]
Weekend Travel Inspiration – Edith Wharton
I love Paris! I am sick to my stomach as I wake up this morning and see the tragic news about gunmen killings in a city I love. And it’s not just Paris, terrorist attacks have happened all over the […]
Weekend Travel Inspiration – Steve Jobs
I love ants! Have you ever sat and watched an ant colony stream in and out of their entrance, carrying crumbs or carcasses, some not carrying anything but just marching along? We know that ants have a very complex community. […]
Weekend Travel Inspiration – Geoff Dyer
Home? What is home? To me, home is sitting on a couch with a hot cup of coffee warming in my hands. Even if I’ve just walked in the door, it’s that feeling of comfort, a sigh of relaxation. Home […]
Weekend Travel Inspiration – Paul Theroux
It is true! Travel is such a good excuse. While I am riding in the passenger seat looking at the beauty of the world, like this mountain we passed last weekend in the Dolomites, I am not doing those […]
Weekend Travel Inspiration – Seneca
What re-charges your battery? For me, it’s getting in the car and driving away. Looking at the schoolwork or housework in through my rearview mirror lets me breathe. As soon as the car passes the city limits, and we’re on […]
Weekend Travel Inspiration #Link up – J.K. Rowling
I absolutely love this quote by J.K. Rowling. Every one of us gets caught up in life. We have our jobs, our family, our routines. Even those that are retired or are digital nomads have things that we have to […]
