My Travels Around The World
January 2025
Day 9: The last day; my traditional Final Thoughts
We really slept in Tuesday morning, both getting up just before 5am. Well, that's sleeping in for me, anyway, almost 8 hours of much [...]
December 2024
Day 8: A lazy day in Waikiki
I was up about 3:30am on Monday, after about 5.5 hours of sleep which is sadly normal for me. And mostly enough. I went [...]
Hawai’i videos REDUX
Let’s try this again. Apologies to subscribers who received notification of the first one but nothing was working. I’ve been having challenges with videos this [...]
Day 7: Oahu beaches, Waimea Falls & Botanical Gardens
I slept in a bit for me on Saturday, not up until about 4:20am. Although we had great coffee in the room, I didn't [...]
Day 6: On to Oahu – The Royal Hawaiian, Manoa Falls
Saturday morning, I was up at my normal 4am or so and worked on the blog. Ash was up not too far behind me. [...]
Day 5: More beaches; The Road to Hana
On Friday, Ash and I were both up about 4:30am. We made coffee and he watched a movie on Netflix ("Carry-On") while I worked [...]
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 [...]
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