We have arrived in Strasbourg and look!!! we are with our travel buddies, Kris and Jim! We travel well together because we have a lot of the same interests. Here, for example, is our joint happiness at finding a free bathroom with toilet paper and functional toilets: And here I am – sent into a […]
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Heading to the Baltics!
It’s true, as many of you point out, that I’m always planning complicated trips that take us out of the US for weeks at a time. But my heart is tied forever to the Pacific Northwest, where I happily remain all summer, taking walks that include the amazing Puget Sound view you see above. For […]
Wrapping up: The dogs of Romania and other beasts
One of the big things I heard about Romania before I got here was that there has been a huge stray dog population – but I never really understood why the dogs were all loose and feral. Do you know why? Ceausescu. Remember when I said he came to power and displaced 40,000 people to […]
Missing out on important sightings in Transylvania
We didn’t see Dracula in Sighişoara, even after we wandered up into his actual birth home. So we set out to do some other sightseeing and – as soon as we drove our Odysseys bus out of the city limits, a flurry of high-pitched scary alerts sounded on all the tour members’ phones. Here’s my […]
Travels with Valerie 