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July 29, 2025
carolkubota
Personal Stories, Retirement

  Hello Everyone, I want to thank you for reading my blog. I haven’t posted for almost a year. This has not been a good year. I have had two successful shoulder replacements. I broke my wrist five weeks ago

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Writing Under the Influence

June 19, 2024
carolkubota
Personal Stories, Retirement

My good friend Tina and I walk our dogs, an Australian Shepard named Sunny and a Cocker Spaniel named Chloe, around  Fountain Park in Fountain Hills Arizona.  We meet at 5:00 in the morning because the day heats to 108F

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Lost Luggage and More

July 27, 2023
carolkubota
Culture, Europe, Personal Stories, Women travelers

  Journal Entry Florence, Italy May 16, 2023 It has been an exciting day. Lesson 1 learned today:  Don’t wait for your bags to go through customs at Heathrow, London. Bags are automatically sent to your connecting flight, which is

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From Sears Catalog to Amazon Shopping

July 9, 2022July 9, 2022
carolkubota
Personal Stories

Oh, the things I remember growing up! Do you remember getting the JC Penny or Sears catalog in the mail? If you don’t then this post will be obsolete. The catalogs were big enough to stack on the chair at

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Stuck in a Spanish Tub

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022
carolkubota
Culture

“Hello, I am in room 425, and I am stuck in the bathtub.” I played this conversation over in my head as I tried to get out of a bathtub in Redondela, Spain. After fifteen kilometers in seven hours, our

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Lessons I learned traveling with a friend for fourteen days in Barcelona, Spain

January 20, 2022January 20, 2022
carolkubota
Culture, Europe

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain My friend Ruth Ann and I are still friends. We were together

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Finding the Windiest Road in Arizona

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October 20, 2021October 21, 2021
carolkubota
USA, Women travelers

The Windiest Road in Arizona The windiest road, Coronado Highway, aka Devil’s Highway (666), is Arizona’s windiest road. When you look it up online, you will find that it has over 460 curves, and if you fear not knowing what

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Women Writers’ Workshop

October 17, 2021
carolkubota
Women travelers

These wonderful ladies attended the first Women Writers’ Workshop in Prescott, Az. They learned how to throw out adverbs and expand on their senses of smell, hear, taste, and sight. We ate at Farm Provisions for lunch and Carmella’s for

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You Don’t Have to be Rich to Travel: 9 tips for DIY Travel Planning Retirees.

September 17, 2021September 17, 2021
carolkubota
Europe, Women travelers

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou.   “You

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The Life of a Slurping Turtle

September 11, 2021September 11, 2021
carolkubota
Personal Stories, USA

The Slurping Turtle is a ramen restaurant in Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio. I am not a ramen fan, but I couldn’t resist the suggestion by my daughter and her friends to indulge in the seven choices of ramen

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