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Where is Iceland?

August 21st, 2019 · Comments Off on Where is Iceland? · Education, Food, Iceland, Itinerary, Lesson Learned, Musings, My Goals, Reading, Teaching & Learning, travel

Iceland — do you know where it is?  What do you know of it?   I’m always first to admit that my geography knowledge is sorely lacking!  The benefit to me when I travel is that I finally figure out where in the world that place is located! So first, go here and check out the […]

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Iceland! We went, we experienced and we want to tell you all about it!

August 20th, 2019 · Comments Off on Iceland! We went, we experienced and we want to tell you all about it! · Education, Iceland, Musings, Site Seeing, travel

Every trip I think, actually I set out determined and certain that I’m going to blog while I’m on the trip — and every trip, well, almost every trip, I don’t!   Somehow the thought of organizing photos, my thoughts and interesting reflections is hard after a long day of travel, so my good intentions go […]

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With a camel at the San Francisco at the Asian Art Museum…….

March 2nd, 2016 · Comments Off on With a camel at the San Francisco at the Asian Art Museum……. · Art, Museums, photo of the week, retirement, Site Seeing, travel

I owe so many posts to my blog!  I’ve traveled quite a bit since retirement – and boy do I need to talk about retirement – and haven’t written much up.  But recently, we spent a good deal of February in San Francisco with our son, and this is one of the stops we always […]

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A Medieval Castle in Pastels

February 16th, 2015 · Comments Off on A Medieval Castle in Pastels · Art, Education, Lesson Learned, Musings, photo of the week, retirement, Spain & Portugal 2014, travel

Lesson learned:  Put something on your bucket list that you never would have thought of! In October 2014 (see my previous posts about this trip), hubby and I went with Odysseys Unlimited to tour parts of Portugal and northern Spain.  One of my favorite spots, early in the trip, was the town of Obidosh.  A […]

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Portugal & Northern Spain trip – #12

January 13th, 2015 · Comments Off on Portugal & Northern Spain trip – #12 · Musings, photo of the week, Spain & Portugal 2014, travel, Walking

So, where were we? Well, it certainly has been too long since I continued telling you about our amazing trip, isn’t it?  Now, what got in the way?  The holidays, renovating two bathrooms (down to the studs and structural issues – that’s a multi-entry story in and of itself!), and an unplanned surgery!  I began […]

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