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January ’23 Antarctic Cruise Trip -“Welcome to Chile” – Santiago, Chile

January 7 It started out so well. Our wonderful, reasonably priced new airport driver picked us up at home on the dot and the traffic was light. Our four hour flight to Atlanta was on time and compared to the … Continue reading

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What the Heck, Mary?

So here I am in Santiago, Chile and you are getting blog notices and they are about Europe’22? Well, remember how I was so burned out that I just couldn’t anymore? Now it is many months later and the last … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 Athens to Meteor by train

July 2 I’m going to start here and go backwards and see if my memory gets refreshed on the past days when I just had to stop writing for awhile.  This is a good one to start with. We are on … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 Trieste, Italy and Slovenia

.June 26 We are almost to Split, Croatia, it’s about 8 a.m. and we are sailing in through an archipelago area, the water like glass except for a few ripples.  We are two hours away from docking again, so this promises … Continue reading

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Home but…

The last week of our trip I really ran out of steam for blog writing. It was hot, it was wonderful, full of more history and amazement. I have added a few things this morning and will complete it all … Continue reading

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I just can’t

June 30 I am so frustrated right now that I’m going to have to stop posting until I get home and have some decent internet. I just can’t get photos uploaded and it’s just infuriating. (First world problems, I realize). … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 Korcula Addendum

June 23 So there I was, just finishing up some hand sewing of a quilt and Al walks in. “Well? Are you coming”? I had to drag it out of him as usual – turns out he wanted ice cream … Continue reading

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Europe ’22 Leave for Florence

June 10 AAUUUGH!  4:45 A.M. Who planned this trip anyway? Our cab was waiting for us as were Kevin and Gina who hitched a ride with us.  We had heard bad things about airport security in Edinburgh and even at that time … Continue reading

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Measure Twice. Cut Once. Use a Calculator.

I quilt. I make dollhouse miniatures. I sucked at Geometry. (Loved Algebra). Make lots of frustrating mistakes in my hobbies because of it. Picked up a Geometry book from Kindle Unlimited. It’s never too late. I found out one ofmy … Continue reading

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Christmas Tree

Until about ten years ago we always had a live tree, when the boys were little we even went to the farm and cut ours down. When we moved to SoCal I decided to go “fake” mostly because I didn’t … Continue reading

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