Travel ⁽⁶³⁾

Right now, I am spending the month of February in Tamarindo, Costa Rica -- mostly to get away from winter but also to complete the required SCUBA dives for my PADI Advanced Open Water certification. I have completed six dives over three days at Playas…

Only 90 miles from our shores, Cuba might as well be half a world away. It is a beautiful island known for its fine cigars, rum, and coffee. I have sampled two of the three. I went on a three hour walking tour of Old…

Our Little Cottage at Hotel Gardenia We've spent the past three winters in Florida (north-central) and found the local people and travelers we met along the way to be wonderful, kind, caring folks. We will miss them immensely. However, the itch to travel more was…

I debated about writing this but decided to post it so I don't have to tell the story multiple times to each of the people I know... First, the Good News ... My sister-in-law, Pat, came to visit us from Michigan while we are in Northern…

Fine Art and Smoked Mullet What one has to do with the other was a mystery but you have to admit it's an interesting combination--fine art and smoked mullet (a fish of some sort that's been smoked). As we travel we look for the local…