My Travels Around The World
December 2024
Day 4: Three beaches in Maui; dinner at The Plantation House
Thursday morning started just like the prior two - me up early, downstairs just after 4am to work on the blog, Ash joining around [...]
Day 3: The North Shore, Hanalei Bay, Turtles at Sunset
I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Mine started the way most travel days do: a date with the blog. I started again about [...]
Day 2: Waimea Canyon, sun and food!
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Yesterday was our first full day in Hawaii and we got right to it. I was up first, [...]
2024 Hawaii: Arrival and a Luau
Many of you know that our big news this year is we are hosting a foreign exchange student. His name is Vasco Corte-Real [...]
September 2024
Day 2: Two shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; and cheese!
We both got up about 5:30am, the first in the household. Not a surprise. I got the blog up and then dealt with some [...]
August 2024
2024 Ashland: Day 1 – Getting here and our first show
This is actually my 4th time to Ashland (and Ash's 12th we think) but the first time I'll be blogging about it when we [...]
July 2024
Day 6: Washington, DC
This entry is for Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Here's a better photo of the house that Erick lives in. It's now 7 units and [...]
Days 4 & 5: NYC to Washington, DC
We had a 10:35am train out of NYC to Washington, DC, Monday morning, July 1. It was a simple walk up 8th Ave to [...]
Day 3: NYC Pride and Jinkx Monsoon in”Chicago”
Sunday was a fairly relaxed day. Since we weren't going to do much associated with the parade we weren't on any particular schedule. We [...]
June 2024
Days 1 & 2: GSM Conference; “Water for Elephants”; “The Notebook”
I'm combining two days in this post since we spent the better part of them either 1. standing in line for rush tickets or [...]
2024 New York City & DC: Departure – Sacramento to NYC
Yes, we are in New York City. Happy to be back to one of my favorite places. We are here for the Gay [...]
Day 11: Galapagos, Part 5 – Giant Tortoises! And final thoughts on this Incredible trip
For Sunday, our final morning on the ship, we were "bags out at 6:30" with breakfast at that time as well, for a 7:30am departure. [...]
Day 10: Galapagos, Part 4 – Genovesa Island, “The Birds”
I had never heard of a caldera until we got here Saturday morning. But that's where we were: a large depression formed when a volcano [...]
Day 9: Galapagos, Part 3 – a glass bottom boat, penguins, and stars
We decided on a much slower pace for Friday, to skip some things and just relax. But we still got up when they had coffee [...]
May 2024
Day 8: Galapagos, Part 2
This is for Thursday, May 30. Our first outing started early, so we went down for coffee at 5:45am. And caught a beautiful sunrise. This [...]
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