Someone is about to leave on another grand adventure while someone else is staying home. Any guesses? Let me give you a hint. The first someone has taken to calling herself “semi-retired” while the second someone is still adjusting to sitting behind a desk all day. One would think after six months that desk-jockey life …
I came home not too long ago to find this parked on our deck: It seems that someone has been missing our Sydney Nanna Trolley and decided to take matters into her own hands, borrowing one from our local QFC. I meant to blog about the Nanna Trolley when we were living in Oz and …
So 2011 was a rough year for some people – Herman Cain, Kim Kardashian, Charlie Sheen – but for Gina and I, it was a year to remember. Thousands of miles in the air, hundreds of miles on the bicycles, tens of miles on treks and trails, and countless good memories of people and places. …
12 Dec 2011 I quit cold turkey. It wasn’t an easy choice, screwing that cap back on and stuffing the bottle deep into my duffel, sandwiched between the bag of dirty laundry and my well-worn sneakers, out of sight and out of mind. But it was the only way. Three days had turned into three …
06 Nov 2011 Seattle to Edison, NJ I am on a flight to Newark, NJ and as luck would have it, I am in the much coveted middle seat. Thankfully, the women on either side of me are self-contained, nothing spilling over into my space save for the elbows taking up the arm rests. The …
“Where is my green and white label?” I hear from the kitchen, followed by “Do I need to put the Bingo on there?” Looking her direction, I see that Gina has a bunch of papers spread across the kitchen counter, intently searching for the required bits for entering the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. I suppose …
It’s easy to let the blog entries fall by the wayside when simply living, unless, that is, you have a Gina in your household who reminds you that life is an interesting animal to write about whether you’re on the road or on the sofa. We’ve really been neither since returning from Sun Valley, Gina …
07 August 2011 “Born to fly.” This is the motto for Condor Airlines, the latest international carrier to start flying out of Seattle and the one that will carry us to Frankfurt tomorrow for the start of our 6 week cycling tour. I like the phrase. It implies confidence. Like Bruce Springsteen was Born to …
01 August 2011 We’ve been riding our bikes as much as the weather here will allow, which is the same as saying we’ve been riding our bikes when it’s sunny out and not all drizzly and misty because even though we have full fenders and rain gear and thus technically would be “allowed” to ride …
29 July 2011 I hate to admit that I’ve been spending time indoors, given that the sun has reappeared and we never know how long that will last, but it’s true, I have been. But not without a good purpose, which was to update our Photos page to include pics from our recent travels. Someone …