It is summer, but soon it will be Labor Day, before we know it, time to deck the halls. With this in mind, I want to share a new discovery with you now so that you can plan ahead as we approach the holiday season. Have you visited a place…
Category: Travel
I Am A Fan Of This Fan
I am a Sweaty Betty. Always have been, always will be. I don’t know if it’s an official gene, but I got it from my father who was the same way. Though there is no cure for the condition, there is a treatment: air blowing on my face. It doesn’t…
Bonneville Salt Flats – Part 1
About 100 miles west of Salt Lake City near the Nevada border are the Bonneville Salt Flats. They are a densely packed 46-square-mile salt pan, a vestige of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. The massive prehistoric lake covered much of the Great Basin region roughly 12,000 to 32,000 years ago. As the…
Salt Lake City Tabernacle
The Salt Lake Tabernacle (formerly called the Mormon Tabernacle) is located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was built between 1863 and 1867 by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Its exterior is striking, both in size and its castle-like appearance. As for the interior,…
The Great Salt Lake
About half an hour west of Salt Lake City, my husband began to see small collections of water close to the road. A nearby railroad causeway was blocking the view on its other side. There was no signage, but as we continued to see the pools of water, it was…
Salt Lake City Public Library
My relationship and love of libraries started at a very young age. My mom and I would walk to the library in our town, housed in a very old 3-story building whose floors were so warped and crooked you could almost read the titles on the shelved vertical spines without…
Such A Fine Sight To See – Part 11
I once again have led my long-suffering husband to new treasures along the highways and byways of this great country. I never tell the poor man where we are going, I navigate us to the address, telling him to be on the lookout for anything “unusual.” Mister Rain is not…
Don’t Be A Fool, Cover Your To . . . Er . . . Toiletries
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…
A Trunken Sailor
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…
Phone Alone
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…