I am writing this post from the jiggly interior of an Air Mexico 737, bouncing its way to Toronto. I’m not great with turbulence, as a matter of fact I am not great with flying, so turbulence just enhances my nervousness. And I get restless leg syndrome; does anyone else encounter this, flying or not? …
What a whirlwind it has been since arriving on Vancouver Island April 27th. Dinners with Brod, my #1 son, while Mone, his beautiful girlfriend, worked either at her restaurant job or in her ballerina role with Ballet Victoria. Hours on my own, roaming the multitude of cute shops that abound in both the downtown and …
It has been a year now since I retired…..April 29th, 2022 to be precise. Although I never wavered in my decision to leave a career I found so satisfying, after all the lure of more time with my sweet Baby Nina in France was too powerful, I did wonder how much I would miss my …
It’s an interesting way to look at life; as if it is a piece of string and as you unroll it you don’t know when you will come to the end. That you don’t know how much is on the roll. When you pull at it and realize you are almost at the end. Or …
Well in reality it was a wrap several weeks ago (insert embarrassed emoji here). Our last stop was a sweet little place in New Caledonia. With only 2 cottages we were the sole guests and thus had the pool and the entire pretty property to ourselves, except for the hosts who also live on site. …
I am SO overdue writing about this amazing experience we had on the South Island of NZ but I wanted to give it it’s own post, so special was the day. And I have been a little time strapped since then, wandering through that country and New Caledonia as I have been. Okay. I’ll be …
As I write this it is just past 2:30 on Sunday afternoon and I am sitting outside on a generous, white denim covered couch, deliberately in the shadow of the roof overhang, a few steps from the edge of the pool. I’m wearing my bathing suit which was what I pulled on when I got …
New Caledonia, first impressions. When we first began planning our trip to New Zealand we knew that we wanted to go somewhere else when it was over before scattering to our next destinations. Mind you, this was before I realized how beautiful 90 Mile Beach in the north of New Zealand is. Had I known …
I know, I know, I should have written this before I left NZ this morning (insert tears here) but time continued to get away on me as it did for the entire 6 and a half weeks I was there. Fueled by your interest in my last post, here are some more observations on how …
One of the wonderful things about travel is experiencing how other cultures differ from our own so I thought you might appreciate reading about some of the differences between Canada and New Zealand as per our observations….. Ok, so first off, we have been in umpteen towns and cities and unless one is at …