Travel Pet Peeves
I don’t normally talk about travel in negative terms, but there are just those times! You know, the time your flight was canceled and you were reticketed in the middle […]
Full English Deconstructed
England is always on my mind, no matter whether I’m charging my FitBit or baking bread. When I first moved to England, I baked bread every week. We never had […]
My Top Ten Travel Packing Tips
The next class I’m teaching at University of Texas Informal Classes is Travel Packing. This is a three hour class that is jam packed full of ideas for minimizing what […]
The Month after the Month Before
It’s taken me a couple of months to get my feet back on the ground after my lovely trip to the UK 2016! In case you missed the blog post […]
England 2016 – Finale
June 11 – Saturday We had to leave Tintagel by 7 to get to the Enterprise Car Rental by 9 when they opened, so we missed Peter’s wonderful breakfast. Instead, […]
England 2016 – Tintagel
June 8 – Wednesday Today is Cornwall day! Tintagel! Coastline! My favorite B&B!!! It didn’t take long to get to Tintagel – about an hour and a half. It’s so […]
England 2016 – From North to South
June 3 – Friday We left Knaresborough around 9:00 am heading North toward Hadrian’s Wall. On the way, we stopped by a landmark known as the Angel of the North […]
England 2016 – Yorkshire and the Peak District
May 31 – Tuesday The alarm went off at 4 am. Groggily, I pulled myself out of bed and into the shower. We had a 6 am train to catch […]
England 2016 – London
May 27 It seemed that all the best laid plans were coming to fruition! I was completely packed, the animals were safely ensconced at the pet sitter’s place, and Pat […]
Surviving the Ride
I am normally a pretty stoic traveler. Hiccups and bumps in transportation are highly likely and prone to a variety of things such as weather, maintenance calls, crew assembly, and […]