My Travels Around The World
September 2021
2021 Europe: Paris, Part 3 – Monet’s Gardens and Ash’s Birthday Dinner
This post is for Tuesday, August 31, and today is Thursday, September 2. I got the photos uploaded on this morning's train ride to Lausanne, [...]
2021 Europe: Paris, Part 2- The Louvre, more roaming
And we're back! For the first time in 8 years of traveling I wasn't able to post my blog daily so have some catching up [...]
August 2021
2021 Europe Day 1: Paris, Part 1 – Eiffel Tower and Roaming
We both slept well after our 24 hour travel day, me waking up at 7am and Ash up around 10am. That was 8 hours for [...]
2021 Europe: Departure to Paris
We left Ash's place around 9:30am Friday and had a friend drop us at SFO. We had a thankfully uneventful experience in the airport getting [...]
2021 Europe: Pre-Departure
In about an hour we leave for SFO. I thought I was going to have to skip this traditional entry of my travel and just [...]
July 2021
20th St: Downstairs Remodel
This entry will be a slightly different take for those of you who've been following this real estate adventure. As I mentioned last time, the [...]
June 2021
20th St Project: Framing, Windows, Doors
I haven't done an update on this since March 21, 2021, so decided it's beyond time to check in. It always feels like not much [...]
May 2021
Alaska’21: Day 4 – Talkeetna, Denali (almost)
It feels like there are a lot of photos here, and there are; but many of them are of the same essential shot over and [...]
Alaska’21: Day 3 – Anchorage to Talkeetna
Between the weather and feeling lazy we didn't do much today but managed to get a few good photos in and of course ate some [...]
Alaska’21: Day 2 – Anchorage (sort of)
Nothing like a phone crash to throw in a change of plans. Except we didn't really have any plans to change so in fact it [...]
Alaska’21: Day 1 – Whittier, Exit Glacier, Seward
I went to bed about 2am Thursday morning; Ash was already very asleep. We both got up a little before 7:30am. There was no coffee [...]
Alaska’21: Departure, May 26
This was the first time I've been in a plane since 2020: Puerto Vallarta and I'm happy to be doing some real travel again. Road [...]
March 2021
20th Street New Duplex: Back on Track
For a variety of reasons, movement on this project slowed during the holidays then started up again mid-January. Some good progress has been made since [...]
Mendocino Retreat: Day 5, 3/17/2021
Tuesday night was the coldest night since I've been here and the cold wasn't motivating us to get moving. The cottage doesn't have any insulation [...]
Mendocino Retreat: Day 4, 3/16/2021
All of this doing nothing makes the days really blend together. Just saying, not complaining. It was Wednesday all day in my head for some [...]
Mendocino Retreat: Day 3, 3/15/2021
The days are going by very slowly in the best way. Friday, my last day in the old job (feels weird to say that), seems [...]
Mendocino Retreat: Day 2, 3/14/2021
We didn't do really much today except a short morning walk and one meal out due to the weather, so I won't be offended if [...]
Mendocino Retreat: Day 1, 3/13/21
This is my week off between jobs. My last day at Disability Rights California after being HR Director there for 6 years was Friday, 3/12; [...]
February 2021
Feb21 Road Trip: Sonoma
Friday, February 19, was Day 9 of this road trip and the final for blogging purposes. We go home this morning and return to normal [...]
Feb21 Road Trip: Santa Cruz to Sonoma
Thursday was pretty much a travel day with just some normal living in between. We went out for coffee around 6:40am. I took this photo [...]
Feb21 Road Trip: more Santa Cruz with PCH vistas
I can tell that it's been a good vacation when I have trouble keeping track of what day it is. That started for me about [...]
Feb21 Road Trip: Santa Cruz
On Tuesday, we packed up and left my house around 8am. We decided to stop by Ash's house in San Francisco on the way and [...]
Midtown Meanderings
Does it still count as a road trip if you're at home? Probably not. But this does fit under the overall objectives I had with [...]
Feb21 Road Trip: V-Day in Sac
We left our Airbnb in Ashland just after 7am. We stopped at Noble Coffee again, walked Paul a bit first, then got stuff to go [...]
Feb21 Road Trip: Ashland, Jacksonville
Saturday was such a lazy day I almost skipped this post. It was cold and rainy much of the day, and with so much closed [...]
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