Well, at the risk of sounding anachronistic: All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go… I have been a whirlwind this past week.  Packed and re-packed.  Cleaned and re-cleaned. […]

My life compresses.  Ten days.  I look around my house and see how much there is to do.  I think of the packing and the cleaning and the prepping.   […]

In April 1981, I got married.  I also moved to England in the same month to work on a military base (Menwith Hill Station) near Harrogate, North Yorkshire. I had […]

I just got an invitation from my friend, Dawn Sharples, to join her and some of my other Facebook UK Hiking friends on a real life “Last Wainwright.”  I wish […]

Today is January 1, 2013.  I often wondered if the planet would make it this far.  It seems to keep limping along despite the policy makers and war mongers. So, […]

I’m catching up on my blogging this morning.  It’s such a lovely, quiet day! Maybe you think that with all this traveling to the Ozarks, I’d forgotten about England.  LOL […]

I just returned from a whirlwind vacation to Eureka Springs, Arkansas.  And what a lovely visit it was!  I thought I’d share it here so you can get an idea […]

Travel Hubs… what are they and why would you want one? It occurred to me as I looked over brochures for group tours to London and Paris, Bulgaria and Switzerland… […]

Dear Readers, As I mentioned in the last post, I’ve just gone through a season of loss this summer.  Probably the worst summer in my life.    I would occasionally […]

I haven’t blogged in awhile, dear readers.  I had hoped that by now you would have been regaled with stories of England – new friends I’d met along the way […]