Around the World
Now that I’m home from our amazing journey to Africa etc., I’ve been reflecting on other travels and the meanings…
Postscript Africa
We’re home. Our adventures are now in our dreams—visions of ocean, mountains and animals. I have a sense of unreality—being…
Cape Town Visit 2
South Africa is a new country—it was reborn in 1994, when its new democracy was born. In a way, its…
Sightseeing in Cape Town
When we scheduled our time in Cape Town, we wondered if we had allotted too much time—three weeks. Did we…
Botswana 2
We’d just spent three days at Nxai Pan—a safari camp in the Kalahari Desert, in Botswana. Now we were moving…
Botswana 1
Is this real? I can’t believe we’re really here. We were looking out on a line of elephants at a…
Petra
Several years ago, I saw a program on public television about an amazing city carved into rock. I was intrigued…
SNOWBIRDING
SNOWBIRDING We’ve taken winter breaks before, but this time is different. We’ve come to Oceanside, California, just north of San…
HIKING AND ART IN IRELAND
You should have seen us, with our day-packs and poles, hiking up mountains, through bogs, along cliffs, and on winding…
Cousins
We’ve just come back from two weeks in San Diego–we were trying to escape the Minnesota cold… We spent a…
