SISTER RAIN NANTUCKET WEEK X2 7 / 10 Today’s piece, as well as yesterday’s, will share with you all the things I did while on Nantucket. Twenty years of reading about thee places was the most extensive research I have ever done before a trip. Nantucket is Elin Hilderbrand and…
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Nantucket A-L
SISTER RAIN NANTUCKET WEEK X2 6 / 10 Today’s piece, as well as tomorrow’s, will share with you all the things I did while on Nantucket. Twenty years of reading about these places was the most extensive research I have ever done before a trip. Nantucket is Elin Hilderbrand and…
No Burger King But We Had It Our Way
SISTER RAIN NANTUCKET WEEK X2 5 / 10 There are no chain eateries on Nantucket. Although my husband and I are not fancy people, especially when it comes to food, we were not looking for fast food anyway during our time there. Mister Rain is a meat and potatoes guy,…
Surrounded By Water And Yet
SISTER RAIN NANTUCKET WEEK X2 4 / 10 I may have previously shared with you that my husband loves to go to grocery stores when we travel. Upon arrival at our lodging, he unloads the car and as he says, “Gets out of her way,” so that her (me) can…
First Chapter
SISTER RAIN NANTUCKET WEEK X2 2 / 10 I have spent the last 20 years reading books about Nantucket, written by Elin Hilderbrand and Nancy Thayer, both residents of the island located 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. They write of fictional people in a non-fictional place, every…
There Is No Bridge
SISTER RAIN NANTUCKET WEEK X2 1 / 10 “Nantucket is an island located 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The only ways to get there are by plane or ferry. Or by reading Elin Hilderbrand and Nancy Thayer books.” — Sister Rain #sisterrain #alittlesightalotofheart #legallyblindtraveler…
The Fourth Time’s A Charm
My husband and I travel well together, including navigation, which can be a challenge for some couples. It may surprise you to learn that I am the navigator. I am in charge of entering our destination into my iPhone, then aiding and abetting Siri to get us where we are…
Firmly Planted In The USA
While on one of our many cemetery trips for history’s sake, my husband and I found ourselves walking around the beautiful East Cemetery in Litchfield, Connecticut. Mister Rain immediately noticed that many gravestones had plants surrounding them, something we had never seen before. Speaking to a man visiting his wife,…
Prepping For The Moment
I hate to pack. HATE it. Always have, even when travel was as routine to me as driving a half hour to my office every day. I used to have Excel spreadsheets for packing, both personal and business. Now I have the list on my Apple devices. You would think…
Mainely Quiet Mornings
At 7:12 am on the first morning of vacation, my husband and I heard the loud sound of machinery being operated close by. He investigated, reporting that there were landscapers mowing and weed wacking the yard of our rental home. I was enjoying my coffee and a mimosa on the…
