thoughts, tales and travels
” . . .how much survives will depend on ourown deliberate choices. . . ” Ross Douthat Walking through the open areas of Alton Baker Park with Bill this morning, I was struck by the subtle waves of purple threaded through the grasses, the most expansive display of native camas...
On our way to a river cruise: Antwerp to Amsterdam. Hope to see tulips!
This past fall, I finally got to see the pretty little European country where Bill worked for Dupont decades ago, before we met. It was an outstanding day of our fall cruise.
As much as I like beer and chocolate, I like history even more. In Bruges, I hope to visit St. John’s the oldest existing hospital (12th century) in Europe. The whole medieval city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The beer from their biggest brewery is piped underground to...
Bill and I have been doing the work to get our hiking legs back, and we were rewarded Sunday morning when we walked the ribbon trail from Hendricks Park. The trail is short, but it has some real ups and downs, and it felt glorious to be fit enough to...
We’re in Colorado, enjoying some beautiful late-season snow squalls. There was an inch and a half on the ground when we woke up this morning. We headed out to meet Bill’s son John and grandson Charlie at the playground. We used the snow mounded on the slide to make snowballs...
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