Rafting the Grand Canyon, April-May 2021 (Part 2)
Friday April 30, 2021 Day 4, Cardenas to Trinity Creek Camp, Mile 92 Today was billed as a Big Rapid Day, including » Read more
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2020: A year of clear vision?
Preamble How to sum up 2020? A year so chaotic, full of fear and fury, as to be life-altering, unforgettable and for » Read more
Coronavirus calendar: (Month 3: May 2020)
Saturday, May 2, 2020 According to the calendar, I was to have my hair done and we would have attended a biannual » 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
Southern Raja Ampat on Damai 2: February 2020 (Part 3)
Sunday, February 9, 2020 We were heading into the final week of our 3-week idyll. It had been a fantastic trip, beginning » Read more
Northern Raja Ampat on Damai 2: February 2020 (Part 2)
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 After an idyllic week at Papua Paradise, it was on to the main course, a 10 day cruise » Read more
Papua Paradise: January-February 2020 (Part 1)
Saturday, January 25-Sunday, January 26, 2020 Given that I was born in 1960, was soon to turn 60 and this trip was » Read more
Eyes Wide Open: Looking at 2019
2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more
French Polynesia, Fall 2019 (Part 3-Fakarava)
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Rangiroa to Fakarava A short afternoon flight to Fakarava and a need to stay out of the water » Read more