TIME AND PLACE

There are many stages to making and implementing a travel plan. Idea. Excitement. Fear. Disbelief (that you’re contemplating this really dumb idea). More excitement. More fear. Deciding not to go. Deciding...

Snow on the ground this morning. Not a lot…well a lot for Albuquerque. Perhaps one/one-zillionth of an inch. I came to work very early to respond to phone calls asking if...

2015 saw the first of the seven BIG trips I intend to take before retiring. It was truly Around the World, designed to set the parameters for all to follow—in other...

OFF TO CAMP. Boyhood. I called my California son after watching it and asked, “I was a better mother than her wasn’t I? No drunken daddies.” “Yes,” he said, “You were,...

EXOTIC MOROCCO…

  ESSAOUIRA. The windiest city on the African continent or at least in Morocco.  

THE MARKET. THE REAL MARKET. NOT THE TOURIST MARKET.

Morocco 2009 with Scott was a special time…how often does one get to hang out with an interesting inquisitive kind and funny son for a whole week in a magnificent country with...

In 2009 I met son Scott in Morocco and we had a most splendid time and travel in that fascinating country. I wasn’t blogging back then so these albums are  just now...

Slept badly. Up at 3AM. But who cares—I have new travel plans, more travel plans, scary travel plans. I have email exchanges going with Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. And texting and...