My Travel Bug

A friend nailed it in a recent email, lamenting how hard it is to coordinate our work schedules to plan a group trip... "Why can't we all just be independently wealthy and travel the world at our leisure?" Yes! Why not, indeed. It's almost enough to make me buy a [...]

2020-01-23T22:45:35+00:00April 12th, 2018|Family and Friends, Memories, Travel|

Palm Springs Get-Away

It's rampant this time of year....Seattleites running away to find a dose of warmth and sunshine wherever they can. Facebook posts of toes in the sand, fruity cocktails on the beach, ocean sunsets, pool-side lounging, and airport check-ins before boarding flights southward are in my feed daily. Hawaii and Mexico [...]

2020-01-24T00:09:08+00:00January 20th, 2017|Food and Drink, Restaurants, Travel|

Paris: A Review

So there I was in Paris for a month earlier this year, living la belle vie, nothing but time to wander, read, eat, write, ponder, drink, consider, explore. It was glorious, as you can imagine. Unseasonably cool and quite wet weather didn't dampen the experience. I made a number of blog [...]

2022-06-04T21:01:40+00:00August 23rd, 2013|Restaurants, Travel|

Communicating Abroad: Keeping it Simple

It was our second or third morning in Zurich, in the breakfast room just off the lobby of the hotel where we were staying. A gentleman at a table near me tried to tell the server that the used plate and coffee cup on his table were not his and should be [...]

2019-03-05T02:55:09+00:00July 3rd, 2013|Travel|

The Rhine River: Our Un-Cruise

  Our ship docked at Breisach, you can see the usual gangway under water, an additional walkway added for our use. There's nothing at all Viking River Cruises could have done. Lord knows they didn't turn on the rain in the previous couple of months that lead to [...]

2015-06-16T18:24:48+00:00June 28th, 2013|Travel|

Paris: The Other Side

A delightful oasis in Paris, Square du Temple. My first inclination when I started to plan this long-awaited, extended time in Paris was to narrow my apartment-searching to my old stomping grounds. The Left Bank. The 5th, 6th and 7th arrondissements. As noted in this earlier post, it's where [...]

2022-06-04T20:59:08+00:00May 3rd, 2013|Travel|

Paris

I spent a few minutes trying to come up with a more clever title for this post but figure it pretty much speaks for itself. Whether you've been there on your honeymoon or for a study-abroad term, if you backpacked-it in a hostel or lived it up at George V, even if [...]

2020-02-05T19:21:18+00:00April 24th, 2013|Memories, Travel|

New York, New York: A Delectable Town

I sit here at my desk, typing away while looking at the now-sunny Seattle sky, seagulls passing, Olympics peaks just beyond view in the distance. A few days ago, I was working on this same laptop from my desk in the 45th floor hotel room I was staying in, midtown Manhattan, a view of countless [...]

2015-07-01T22:10:29+00:00February 25th, 2011|Food and Drink, Restaurants, Travel|
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