Chile, March 2022: A chilly reception (Part 1: Chiloé Island)
Saturday, March 19, 2022-Sunday, March 20, 2022 Travel can be stressful, we all know that, but usually the rewards easily outweigh the » Read more
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Methow Valley, NYC and Berkshires (June-July 2021)-Part 3, the Berkshires
Our pandemic round robin of cancelling international trips and searching for reasonably safe domestic substitutions continued unabated all through summer 2021. We » Read more
Methow Valley, NYC and Berkshires (June-July 2021)-Part 1, Methow Valley, WA
The long arm of Covid continued to impact our travel plans well into 2021, even as California “reopened” June 15 and some » Read more
Coronavirus calendar: Quarantine dispatches (Month 2: April 2020)
“April is the cruelest month.” (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922) Throughout March, a line from Hamilton kept playing in my mind: “The » Read more
Pandemic pandemonium: scrambling the best laid travel plans (June 2020)
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 With the Audi Q5 packed as though we were never returning home, we headed northeast towards St. George, » Read more
Coronavirus countdown: Quarantine dispatches (Month 1: March 2020)
Over the years, especially since starting this blog, I’ve kept notes on what we were seeing, experiencing, thinking, feeling, reading, even eating, » Read more
Channel Islands, August 2019
August 20, 2019 Day 1: Santa Barbara Island Was it a good idea to take up cold water diving again? This question » Read more
Spring bustin’ out allover in NYC: April 2018 (Part 1)
Saturday, April 14, 2018 Spring can be particularly glorious in NYC. Probably the harshness of NY winters makes this contrast inevitable. This » Read more
Japan in winter, Steve Eilenberg
This was our first winter trip to Japan and we visited the coldest parts of the country. Often uncomfortably hot on our » Read more
Norway, September 2017 (Part 2-Svalbard)
Saturday, September 2, 2017 By our first morning aboard Antigua, a converted sailing vessel and our home for the next 9 days » Read more