The small notice on the bulletin board described an opportunity for a summer in Alaska. The successful applicant would direct a summer recreation program for kids in the small community of Skagway, at the northern terminus of the inland passage. That passage is a stretch of protected ocean approx. 1,500 km long, that runs from
Those of you who read my blog regularly will recognize much of this as I’ve shared many of these thoughts and experiences previously here. And I summarized my first 70 years in the 2013 publication, “Seven Decades: A Learning Memoir.” Starting my 85th year and able to function physically, mentally, emotionally and socially at reasonable
Contrasts and Comparisons Being planted in one place to absorb the surroundings versus traveling to get to another place – day and night. While being on the road is a very different experience from parked or camped in one spot, we find ways to make the motion forward at 70 mph engaging. These include listening
On the road again, having departed home in Tubac, AZ, Wednesday, June 2, and 4 days and 1,100 miles later we’re south of Jackson, Wyoming on the Snake River. We are traveling via our Leisure Travel Van RV, camping with amenities, as we say. Those of you who know the open spaces of the West
Or is it time to travel? I prefer the double entendre of it’s time to travel and having the time to travel, both of which are true for us. We love to travel as anyone who knows us, knows well. Our first trip together, some 25 years ago, was to Canyon de Chelly in AZ,
It has been a hellacious year for many reasons, with Covid being the most challenging and the lack of leadership at the top right behind it, actually contributing to the 564,000 deaths in the U.S. alone and 2.97 million world-wide. I wondered what I was thinking about a year ago, so reached back, and here
