Travel

Look, I realize this is family website, sort of, but I know no other way of starting this story except to say this: It has been a very long time since I used a condom. Now that that is out of the way . . . In my recent revamp…

Traveling along the shore in Port Orchard, Washington, heading to the rental home we love, I noticed something new. “Is that a statue back there?,” I asked my husband. He quickly glanced in the rear view mirror, “I can’t tell. We’ll look when we come back this way.” It was…

Every day, all over the world, phones are stolen out of airport security bins because they are sitting solo in the TSA tray. Help prevent this from happening to you by stowing your phone in your backpack, tote or purse, instead of placing it in a bin by itself which…

Once you return to reality after a trip, it doesn’t take long for the vacation to disappear from view, much like the sun you watched set over the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California. There are several things I do during and post travel that help keep the memories and…

Once you return to reality after a trip, it doesn’t take long for the vacation to disappear from view, much like the sun you watched set over the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California. There are several things I do during and post travel that help keep the memories and…

Once you return to reality after a trip, it doesn’t take long for the vacation to disappear from view, much like the sun you watched set over the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California. There are several things I do during and post travel that help keep the memories and…

Once you return to reality after a trip, it doesn’t take long for the vacation to disappear from view, much like the sun you watched set over the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California. There are several things I do during and post travel that help keep the memories and…

Something I always take with me on a trip is a kit consisting of two sets of plastic utensils (in case of take-out), a few grocery store plastic bags, several Ziploc, a couple sandwich bags, binder clips (for open snack bags), rubber bands (needed them once, didn’t have), scissors, safety…

I have experienced fog living in Pennsylvania, but on our most recent trip to the Seattle area, the fog there put the fog I know to shame. Waking up while it was still dark, I put the coffee maker on and stepped out onto the large deck above the Puget…

The 12-foot tall cement Viking (click here for A Striking Viking) should have been a clue. All I knew about Paulsbo, Washington was that it was along the water; that is what had brouht my husband and me here from Port Orchard where we were staying. Who among us is…