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
“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
“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
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
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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Women Writers’ Workshop
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” ― Virginia Woolf The writing workshop for newbies and non-published authors. Discover your inner
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You Don’t Have to be Rich to Travel: 9 tips for DIY Travel Planning Retirees.
“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
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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I wish I could be a male when I travel.
I wish I could be a male when I travel. I am sixty-five years old and travel solo. These are my personal experiences and might not apply to all female solo travelers. If I were a male: I could
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7 Reasons Not to Book a Packaged Tour if You are Traveling Solo
Four of us are walking the Camino de Santiago, the Portuguese Way, in March. The group we hooked up with gave us a reasonable price which includes hotel accommodations, breakfast every day, two dinners, and transportation of our luggage to
