PACK YOUR BAG!!!

Packing is probably the hardest part of traveling; what to pack; how much to pack; what not to pack and what are your absolute necessities. You'll take what you think you need and find that you use only half of it; or you'll find you should have packed something that now sits at home in… Continue reading PACK YOUR BAG!!!

SMOKE AND FIRE

The past 15 months have been hard for Northern Californians. We have had four major fires in this time period. Fire isn't necessarily uncommon in California, but mostly they aren't gigantic disasters. Southern California has had a number of major fires, but for us here in No.Cal fires are here and there but not in… Continue reading SMOKE AND FIRE

HATE

I just read through quite a few comments about the incident with the boy and native American man; so much hate and twisted perceptions. They view thirty seconds of a video and think they know the whole story. There were several videos of this incident, each showing a different angle. The media immediately began spouting… Continue reading HATE

YOUNG LOVERS

Remember the song...'Hello young lovers, wherever you are....? Young love; oh, how we fantasize about it! Maybe we have experienced it, or maybe we wish we had; or maybe we know someone else who has. It's the ultimate fairytale...a young man and a young woman in love, beautiful, handsome, a prince and princess dreaming about… Continue reading YOUNG LOVERS

ROAD TRIPS

I have now been on three cruises and next summer I will do another; but I have been doing road trips for most of my life. As a child I traveled from one end of California to the other and roamed all across the Arizona desert. Our home was on the Colorado River in the… Continue reading ROAD TRIPS

GOING ON A CRUISE

I've never been a big fan of the ocean. I grew up in the middle of the California desert...not on it's coast. When I was a child we wandered all over that desert and I loved it. The ocean was intimidating to me. Then one day my sister decided she wanted to go to England… Continue reading GOING ON A CRUISE