My Travels Around The World
January 2023
2023 NYC: Day 3 – “The Collaboration”, a great meal with family
I slept a bit over 7 hours, which was both nice and unusual for me, getting up just before 7am. Mind you that's like sleeping [...]
2023 NYC: Day 2 – “Take Me Out” was the surprise hit of the day; also “Leopoldstadt”
I woke up around 6am on Saturday and Ash was up not too long after me. We took Zeus out to do his thing quickly [...]
2023 NYC: Day 1, Friends, Family, and Audra McDonald
We had such a good time in New York City last year at this time we decided to do it again. We typically plan our [...]
November 2022
2022 Costa Rica: Day 5, Manuel Antonio National Park (Monkeys, Iguanas, and Sloths, oh my!)
I started writing this about 4:30pm Thursday afternoon. We are done for the day except for dinner and Ash is napping so it's a good [...]
2022 Costa Rica: Day 4 – Jaco via Puntarenas, and some great food
I slept a nice 7 hours, up around 4:30am. Ash was up by 6am and we went down for breakfast right after 6:30 as I'd [...]
2022 Costa Rica: Day 3 – Butterflies, Hanging Bridges, and the Arenal Volcano
I slept a good 7 hours, up around 5:30am. By the time Ash got up, I'd gotten about half of the blog written but was [...]
2022 Costa Rica: Day 2, Fortuna Waterfall
I was up early, like 2am, and when by 3am I hadn't gone back to sleep I gave up and started working on the blog. [...]
2022 Costa Rica: Day 1, Royal Corin Resort, Arenal/La Fortuna
So the full name of this place is The Royal Corin Thermal Water & Spa Resort, but who's got time for that? It's a 2.5 [...]
2022: Costa Rica – The Honeymoon – Departure
We planned this trip in February, a few months before we even decided to get married. We got engaged in Paris in May, and later [...]
May 2022
2022 France: Day 13 – Orleans; Final Thoughts
I woke up at 3:30am Friday morning and never really went back to sleep, so I'm writing this on about 4.5 hours sleep. Forgive me [...]
2022 France: Day 12 – Chateau de Chambord
We were up about 7am. Had some "it will do" instant coffee in the room and then got ready to go out for the day. [...]
2022 France: Day 11 – Chateau de Chenonceau and Royal de Blois
This was our last morning in Montsereau. We were up by 6am and went out about 7am to find breakfast. We'd forgotten to notify the [...]
2022 France: Day 10 – Chateau de Villandry and Chateau d’Usse
This might be one of the most beautiful posts I've done (out of 274 according to WordPress!). Not that I had anything to do with [...]
2022 France: Day 9 – A lazy day by the Loire River
I didn't get up until about 7:30am, which is pretty late for me, but I'd stayed up the night before to get the blog finished. [...]
2022 France: Day 8 – Mont Saint-Michel, Angers
I slept about 7 hours, up a little after 5am. I'd done nothing on the blog the night before except test the wifi here by [...]
2022 France: Day 7 – Chateau Royal d’Amboise, Chateau de Briancon
We were up early to help Jim get off to the airport and go pick up our rental. We were going to ride together in [...]
2022 France: Day 6, Paris – Part 4: Le Cordon Bleu, & some ring activity at Sacre Coeur
We woke up to a much cooler apartment and that made for a better night's sleep than the night before. It probably never got above [...]
2022 France: Day 5, Paris, Part 3 – La Defense, more great food
This entry is for Thursday, May 19. I'd gotten into this groove of working on the blog late afternoon/early evening then finishing it up just [...]
2022 France: Day 4 – Paris, Part 2: lots of walking and a great lunch
Usually it's the 2nd night of the trip when I don't sleep well at all, but this time it was the 3rd. I went to [...]
2022 France: Day 3 – Versailles
I was up about 7am this morning, Ash was up before me which Hardly Ever Happens. He was ready to take Paul out for his [...]
2022 France: Day 2 – Paris, Part 1.5
We didn't do much today so I wasn't sure it counted as a full part! Still managed to take a bunch of photos, though. I [...]
2022 France: Day 1 – Paris, Part 1
When we were in Paris last year, Ash cooked up this idea of coming back for the month of May, 2022. "We can 'Spring' in [...]
March 2022
2022 PVR: Day 4 – Another easy day with great food (and churros)
Sunday was my last full day in Puerto Vallarta and I purposefully didn't have much planned. I was up a little earlier than the prior [...]
2022 PVR: Day 3 – Not much to it (just like I wanted)
I slept 7 hours again Friday night, up around 5:30am. I went to OXXO twice for coffee after they opened at 6am, worked on the [...]
2022 PVR: Day 2 – A (very wet) Ziplining Adventure!
Sleeping to the sound of the waves must agree with me. I slept a lovely 7 hours Thursday night, getting up about 5:30am. I went [...]
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