I had a leisurely morning and first checked my email at 10 am. Quite a delay when good news was waiting in my inbox! I clicked on the post notification of my blogging friend, Carol Anne at Therapy Bits to read about Who Won the Week. I saw the name Rebecca…I read on. My eyes […]
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Do you miss the surprises of traveling, matching wits against a novel situation? I do. In 2005, we learned a lot on our trip to the Yucatan Peninsula. In Mérida, I was researching articles for a translation. I’ll save that story for another Thursday. When my work was complete, we bought bus tickets for the […]
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Segovia has a marvel of Roman engineering from the second century! The elegant granite block aqueduct is made without mortar and still standing with a few small repairs. It is 28.5 meters tall, around 94 feet at its highest point. We traveled there our second to last trip together during the 1987 Toledo Program. Our […]
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Armchair travel’s in vogue like never before, you may have heard. Where besides Fluke Pachinko (aka Fake Flamenco) can you find international travel tales and photos? Ten captivating women’s travel blogs I follow are: 1. Now, Here and Somewhere Italian traveler Flavia Vinci takes us around the world and back again through her photos. Wonderful […]
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The year we lived in Santiago, Chile, this view greeted our eyes daily from our sixth floor efficiency apartment. The Andes Mountain range was our astonishingly beautiful silent companion. Locals called her affectionately, La Cordillera*. The embracing arms of Mother Earth, named Pachamama, were a steadfast constant, a geological marvel, and a cardinal point. When […]
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How can we beautify Madison? The Madison Arts Council has colorful designs by local artists on three dozen utility boxes around downtown and east side of the city. Since my pace has slowed down in the last week due to my leg injury, my partner drove me around for a from-the-car-photo-shoot of our curbside art […]
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