

Arizona & Utah - 2025
This trip was instigated because of the easy accommodation in Sedona, Arizona by Martha's friend, Laura McCarthy, who, along with her...


Balkans Excursion - 2024
It had been a long time coming. Throughout 2023 Martha and I had been discussing and debating our next overseas trip. Portugal? ...


Hopscotching - 2023
A natural assumption about retirement is that you're free to do whatever, whenever. Good in theory, but there are always other...


France 2022!
Going overseas, especially anyplace in Europe, sounds exotic. To family, friends and the obligatory social media audience, there's even a...


Park City, Utah - Jan. 2022
We'd arranged a ski trip to Utah - instigated by a wistful comment by Chris - for January. Skiing - and eventually snowboarding - we...


Summer '21-Michigan, Indiana, Nashville, Smokies
Following the New England trip in June, we made the annual pilgrimage to Castle Park in late July. Martha had to attend meetings of the...

New England Road Trip
We left Richmond at about 7 am on Saturday, June 19 for the drive up to Boston. With backups on the George Washington bridge in New York...


New Discoveries - Amid the Lockdown
Covid has driven everyone stir crazy. Outdoor activities have become more popular and small excursions have been a way to safely relieve...


Spain Again - 2019
We loved Spain so much on the trip in 2018 and felt there was so much more to see; especially Barcelona which seems to be on everyone's...

Spain - 2018
(original post) We'd started planning a trip as soon as we knew that our youngest, Nathan, was leaving for Nashville, effectively leaving...


London-Paris - 2015
(Note: An abbreviated recollection taken from casual notes) We took Icelandair to save some money, leaving Dulles and stopping in...


Costa Rica - 2013
Since Jamie is now in San Francisco and the other three are at Camp Highlands, Martha and I decided to spend some of my LLS windfall that...