Category: travel
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Troncones, Mexico
January, 2023 It has been raining a bit more than usual in the Pacific Northwest, and there has even been snow in the lowlands along some of the trails that I have been trekking upon with my Like Minded Women tribe. Soooo, my fantasizing of our upcoming (previously) annual trip to Mexico became an ongoing…
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Fall Recreation in the Pacific Northwest
I do believe that October is a great month in so many places around the world! It is for sure an incredible time in the Pacific Northwest!! It was stated on the news that our October temperatures were 10° higher than the historical average. I have more information gleaned in Italy that I’ll be sharing,…
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Time To Get Back To Creating Local Adventures!
Monday, September 24, 2022 What a far flung adventure I have had the good fortune to experience! The long days of warm sunshine seem a memory now as my European trip comes to a close. The sunrise today wasn’t even until 7:27 – and there was a question as to whether it would make an…
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More On Florence
Hello! I am back home in Washington State where the Beautiful fall weather continues with unusually high temperatures and where there is an electricity around the accomplishment of our Seattle Mariners who have made it into the Major League Baseball playoffs for the first time in TWENTY ONE YEARS!! What an Epic Journey I have…
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Gino Bartali and The Great Flood
On Day One of our journey in the steps of Saint Francis, our group assembled in front of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. Giovanni, our most knowledgeable guide, shared with us then a most wonderful and little known story about beloved Tuscan cyclist, Gino Bartali. When I got home I wanted to revisit…
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One More Country To Visit
Saturday, September 24, 2022 The Pope is coming to town and I’m leaving on the next train!! The two events are not correlated, though it does seem auspicious!! My gracious hotel proprietor and baker extraordinaire, Lia, assured me it would only take twenty minutes to go by foot to the train station based on her…
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Haarlem, Netherlands
Sunday, September 25, 2022 So here I am in Haarlem, Netherlands. Our New York Harlem actually derived its name from here when it was “New Amsterdam”, a Dutch colony. I have to admit, I am wearing thin on my energy levels and it took me a while to get out the door this morning! Also,…
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More Strolling In Assisi
Friday, September 23, 2022 I started my day with another lovely breakfast of too much food lovingly prepared and provided by proprietors Lia and Carmine. And I enjoyed another HOT cappuccino, yum!! Then I was out onto the byways of inner city Assisi courtesy of Rick Steves, via a couple of his generously free website…
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The Living, Breathing Assisi of Yesterday and Today
Thursday, September 22, 2022 So weird. Sandy and Lyn have gone on from here to walk the Via Francesca to Rome! I find myself quite envious (oh how quickly I forget how tired I was of the hills – Ha!). Most of our group left yesterday for extended exploration in Europe or for home. I’m…
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Fare Thee Well
Wedneslday, September 21, 2022 The time has arrived for us to break bread together one last time and then to say our “goodbyes”. It’s always such a mixed bag of emotions, the chance for some alone time, yet the heartbreak of seeing comrades go their separate ways, hopefully to meet again someday, yet not knowing.…