Back to the travel theme today. During our driving trip around Italy, Switzerland, and France in April, 2000, my husband and I spent a couple of days in Lugano, Switzerland. It was quiet and peaceful, flowers blooming everywhere, and I can’t remember ever being so calm and relaxed on a vacation. We took a funicular …Read More
Archives for April 2011
K is for Katie Kitten
I’ve written about Katrina Katie Kitten before. On February 9th I was at Kaye Barley’s Meanderings and Muses with a post about My Office, My Pet, and Me. Two days later our kitten got sick. On February 23, I wrote this in my Wednesday Scramble: On Friday, Feb. 11th, the kitten we adopted from the …Read More
J is for Java or Joe
My dad and uncle used to sing the Java Jive a lot. (That link is to a fun Manhattan Transfer video clip on You Tube). Anyway, I feel that way about my coffee, too. Of all the coffees I’ve enjoyed on my travels (and I must do my best to stick to my travel theme …Read More
I is for Illinois Weather
Friday’s travels were seriously complicated by the storms that passed through Chicago in the morning. As you know, flight delays snowball and affect travel and connections all over the country. My trip went something like this: 9:30 AM — Arrived at University of Illinois Willard Airport in Savoy and returned my snazzy red Camry rental …Read More
H is for Home
Home has meant a lot of different things to me over the years. I was born in Chicago. I grew up on a farm in east central Illinois, just west of Champaign-Urbana. Oklahoma City was my home for one year before I returned to Illinois. In 1969 I moved to Muncie, Indiana, and that’s where …Read More
G is for Gourdon, France
My husband and I lived in the South of France for a couple of years in the mid-80s. You’ll hear more about that later in the alphabet. Today’s post is about my favorite perched village ,located well inland from the Mediterranean, roughly north and west of Nice in the Alpes-Maritime of Provence. Gourdon (and you …Read More
F is for Fiddlesticks, Family and Friends!
The fiddlesticks part: Who knew it was going to be this hard to write blog posts on the fly? I sure wish I’d followed Alex J. Cavanaugh‘s good example and written at least this first week of posts in advance. I won’t give up, even though I’m out of town visiting family… The family part: …Read More
E is for Estes Park, Colorado
I wanted to write a short post about one of the “E” places I’ve visited, but had a lot of trouble picking one over the other. There’s Everglades National Park with its elephant-sized mosquitoes. Or Eze in the South of France, with its exotic gardens and incredible scenery. I also loved Eltz Castle (Burg Eltz) …Read More
D is for Double Duty
I’m here to file a “D” report when I’m actually supposed to be at Chiseled in Rock with my usual Tuesday post. Since CIR is not participating in the A to Z Challenge, the post there is a video from You Tube that shows exactly how far authors (especially mystery authors) will go to get …Read More
C is for Cinque-Terre, Italy
I’m going to cheat a little bit on today’s post because I’ve already told the story of my trip to the Cinque Terre. Last December I wrote a Friday Field Trip for Terry Odell who blogs at Terry’s Place. This one was a photo essay about a hike my husband and I took back in …Read More