We’re back. International travel no less, as we visit old friends in Canada. Laura. Linda & Cal. Ruby & Larry. Nedra (off camera of me eating poutine). Bill and Grace.  So glad we could reconnect finally! And sightseeing again!

            Long time, no post. We had hoped to go to Ireland in early October and be writing from somewhere overseas. COVID had other ideas. Countries we reclosing just as we planned to leave. We decided instead to settle again in the Chicago area for one year to let...

Hi, everyone. I hope this message find all of you well. A subscriber asked for an update, so I’m writing to let you know that we are safe and renting month to month near Palm Springs, CA. We hope to travel again in the fall, though we all know...

That afternoon we took a long train from Barcelona to Avignon, France. From the train station to the apartment, we had a funny taxi driver who spoke some Spanish. “You know,” he told us, “Avignon is home to the pope’s home.” (A French pope moved here in 1309 when...

We weren’t planning to return to the USA until after Memorial Day. We believe the travel ban will be lifted by then. We’ve changed plans on the fly to keep as much of our Italy visits in place after April 4. We’ve replaced two towns there with Chambery, France,...