2024 Highlights (with Marie’s photographic bests)
2024 was a whale of a year! By any measure, it was a momentous year, in which we semi-retired after 33 years » Read more
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Finally, the Philippines! (Part 3-Visayas, June 2024)
All too soon, we were at the halfway point of our long awaited 10-day voyage on the Atlantis Azores. Our 5 days » Read more
Braving Black Waters, November 2023 (Week 1, Anilao, Philippines)
Scuba diving has taken us around the world, but never, until recently, had we ventured into outer space. At least that is » Read more
Marie’s favorite images of 2023
I always love when the New York Times comes out in December with the “Best of ” lists, particularly of films. Our » Read more
Underwater Photography: Some of my favorites – Steve
I watched with wonder when we landed on the moon, that July day in 1969. I will never be an astronaut. The » Read more
2022 Highlights
As 2022 unfurled, we adapted to the realities of coronavirus endemicity. This was the year of make up trips (not 1, not » Read more
Back to Baja: October 2022
Friday, October 7, 2022 No good adventure begins uneventfully, or so it seems. 2022 was a year dominated by pandemic make-up trips, » Read more
Brrrr! Back to British Columbia (September 2022)
Port Hardy is a small fishing village at the northern end of Vancouver Island, a one hour flight in a small plane » 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 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