What? Good bye? Already? I haven’t even written about all of the wonderful things about this city that have so captivated us! With less than a week left in our stay here, I had so much more to say, but now the question is “do…
Category: retirement
Our time here in La Paz is coming to a close and we keep asking ourselves “where did all the time go?”. It seems as if we just got here and got settled and now we have to leave. What the heck? And I am…
“Wait, what?” I can hear you saying, “You ARE away!”. Well, yes, this is true, but you see, we are living here for the moment and so, we decided after a month and a half, we needed a little break from our every day life…
What happens when you come to a place such as this, a paradise where so many come to vacation, but you come with a different purpose. You come to live, not holiday. How does that change what you do and how you experience the place…
Yes, we are indeed, on the road again. Well before we were inundated with “atmospheric rivers” and cold weather, we were dreaming of travelling once again. The actual impetus for this trip began with a football game. My family has traditionally gone to the Apple…
Since coming back to Vancouver Island in March of 2019, we have rarely left our island home. To anyone living elsewhere, this might seem very strange. Don’t we miss the excitement of the big city of Vancouver? Don’t we feel constricted living on an island? …
What do wanderers do when they can’t wander? Over a year ago we were called home due to the pandemic. At the time we just worried about getting across the border and then surviving the two weeks of quarantine. How were we, who spent the…
We arrived in Yosemite in the sunshine with the weather still chilly enough to need our sweatshirts. The great part about visiting Yosemite in early March is that the teaming hoards of tourists haven’t quite gotten there yet, and so we got to experience a…
Leaving Joshua Tree, we continued our journey out to the West Coast. It had been a while since we had seen the Pacific Ocean and we were excited to dip our toes back in it – especially since the last time we’d done that was…
Continuing our journey westward, we landed in the small town of Twenynine Palms, CA. I am assuming that somewhere in the vicinity are 29 very cool looking palm trees, but we were on the hunt for the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. Turns out…