Category: travel
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Postcards from the past
At the end of a long table at an estate sale sat a cardboard flat of 100s of picture postcards. Most came from the 1950s and 60s and had been stamped, addressed, and sent, leaving clues to the activities of one family’s life and friends. The cards carry brief reports on trips in the United…
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Make Way for Ducklings
((Have you heard of this book? Please comment yes or no. We were surprised how many had NOT heard of the ducklings.)) For weeks and months, my husband spends hours poring over the computer search engines seeking out the “must see” sites for our next vacation. He plans our days, all the side trips, the…
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Not so poor after all
Before I married, someone said, “You’re going to be poor the first 10 years anyway, so go ahead, get married and get started.” This proved to be quite true. We were poor. How poor were we? So poor that we bought the one house in the village that no one wanted because it needed so…
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That day was not the way we planned it
At our house, nothing ever goes quite as planned. Take the halfway mark visit that the four grandchildren’s parents promised before the quartet came to stay for a month. The mold issues in their home took a lot more time and energy than their mom had anticipated, so instead of her coming, my son planned…
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Traveling is such a drag
The drag factor determines how much we pack for a trip. The older we get, the less drag we want. Take our trip to England last year, for example. The roller on one of the suitcases failed to roll just as we began dragging it from Heathrow airport to the train, up the stairs, to…