The first half of our vacation was all about reconnecting with old friends in a place familiar to us, a place where we (along with Tony Bennett) left our hearts – or at least part of them. This second half is about visiting family and experiencing new places. We spent time with Steve’s son in Seattle and […]

The day we flew to the West Coast was the day the horrendous heat wave descended on the rest of the country. Weather maps showed every part of the United States in shades of red except for one narrow strip of yellow. That strip started in San Francisco and ended in Seattle. We were headed […]

In all the time I’ve been a blogger, I’ve somehow been able to consistently keep up, never letting a whole week go between blogs. Cross-country moves, surgeries and hospitalizations (my own and others’), long trips and short ones, houseguests, the birth of our grandchildren – nothing has prevented me from blogging. Until now. Yesterday, while […]

We are home now. We spent our last three days in Central Europe in three of the four country capitals situated on the Danube – Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest – and rode our last train bound for the fourth capital – Belgrade. The Danube, beautiful although not blue, is the second longest river in Europe, stretching from the Black Forest […]