My sisters and I scored an apartment on Booking.com with 3 bedrooms and 1 ½ baths just 3 blocks from the convention center. NOT mentioned in the apartment details and description – two very steep flights of steps. My oldest two sisters have knee and back problems. They soldiered up …
My sister Kathleen joined me for part of a day in DC before we proceeded into Virginia to visit our mother. Kathleen really hoped to see cherry blossoms – but Feb. 28 is very early even for a warm year. I had spied one small cluster of trees beginning to …
My readers know I love museums. That love likely stems from the fact I was raised about an hour from Washington DC, home of the Smithsonian. Every year, some class would have a field trip to one of the museums – Air & Space, Natural History, American History, etc. In …
There were a number of options for tours in Belize – more snorkeling, a city and food tour, a day sail – but the most popular is a day trip to the Mayan Ruins at Altun Ha (a little over an hour drive, should have taken longer but our driver …
The island of Roatan off the coast of Honduras is a popular stop for cruise ships. Carnival stops at Mahogany Bay instead of town (as a business model – it limits the passengers access to shopping and almost ensures you take a tour). John and I have enjoyed tours arranged …
New Orleans is known for fun, food, voodoo and music – and you can focus on whichever is important to you. I joined a great group of friends for the next part of my journey – Kelly and Alyssa from Boise and Liam & Alan from Spain. I should give …
Alaska Cruise on the Nieuw Amsterdam August 2022 I realized in reviewing my prior posts about the Yukon/ Klondike Gold Rush, I had failed to relay the story of how it all began – which is interesting in and of itself. The Klondike Gold Rush National Park (entry is free) …
Holland America Nieuw Amsterstam Cruise 2022, Part I We’d said adieu to our tour guide Bridget when we arrived in Anchorage, so we had to be responsible adults and get ourselves to the bus outside the hotel at the appointed time to transfer us to the train to Whittier, where …
Pacific Northwest and Alaska 2022 We definitely had the best day to see Denali – the day before had been misty and spitting rain, and the day after, on the Wilderness Train to Anchorage, it was flat out raining for the first half of the 8-hour trip. We sat in …
Denali! Denali (formerly Mount McKinley) National Park and Preserve was established in 1917 (though not the first area designated as a National Park – that goes to Sitka National Historic Park in 1910) and now covers 6 million acres (7,408 square miles) – the 5th largest National Park in the US. …