travel
Porchin’ it rhymes with fortunate. Unless you want a Bloody Mary.
Ah. The view from this wide wraparound porch off the B&B was tough to leave.
Especially on a Sunday, when the town below doesn’t start serving beer or wine until 12:30 and won’t break out the hard liquor all day.
Gotta love those Baptists.
We managed to get along anyway, having drowned our potential hangovers in a four and a half foot deep hot tub at 2 AM until dark o’thirty. Girlfriends are great travel companions.
We wandered around the town seeing folk art like this
then sat in a cool stone house to hear people like this
talk about …
Home Sweet Home, if I'm in charge.
There are things you miss when you are away, especially when you leave pets behind. I came home to 2 very happy pooches, a NASA approved bed and an air conditioned house that I could control.
Maybe that’s the thing about coming home. Reestablishing your parameters- your reign- your sense of environmental control. The hassle of returning is almost enjoyable knowing you’ll have a normal/recognizable re-entry to the “real” world.
AS long as no one has messed with your tidy little space. It can make you a little sick, like you’ve been robbed by someone who knows you – like …
My life as I know it, is about to change.
By this time next week I will be on my 4th family-less day and hopefully loving it.
I used to have a daydream where I ran away from my family with pockets full of cash, a one way ticket to Paris and a pilot case stuffed with great shoes.
Then I settled for the 8:30-4pm school/work day reprieve. But, even as much as I LOVE my house, and the quietly productive time I spend there, I also have to deal with telephones, animals and all too obvious chores.
Beginning Monday, I will spend more than 2 weeks away from home, …
What you see during Olympics is not really what you get.
I can say this because I live in Atlanta, and I know when the Olympics were here, there was no pollution and no traffic.
This is a picture of Chinese soldiers removing huge amounts of algae from a beach near the Olympics Sailing Centre in Qingdao where the clean-up pressure is on.
How many people will watch the China Olympics on TV and say, “That looks nice. We should add Qingdao to our travel plans next summer, dear.”
I wonder how long it will take to regrow all that algae?…
Eat Pray Love. Read.
Did you ever read a book and find yourself nodding your head so much that you felt like one of those bobble dolls in the rear window of a 1972 Charger?
And then I went to her website.
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Yortuk and Georg Festrunk are alive and well.
First look AT THIS.
then look at these two guys.
I’m sure they will be talking all about the “older women” errr, FOXES they found one wild and crazy night in New York City!…
The only news I read…
…talks about a place I’ve actually been- all because I was eavesdropping while backpacking– okay, I might have been a little drunk, too.
The Onion’s
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Go to filminfocus.com/inbruges to watch the trailer and find out more info on the film.…
Heineken=Idiodem in T9 texting
There’s a place in Amsterdam where you’re encouraged to drink as much as you can in thirty minutes, at 11 Am on a Sunday.
But that’s not the story.
The story is why I never made it there.
Years ago, I was in Amsterdam, staying at a hostel that was an old monastery converted into dorms and common bathrooms.
I met a few girls when I checked in, totally misunderstood their warning about roaches under the beds, but followed their directions to a place where I could get something to eat. How tough could it be to find a coffeehouse? …
You might think this is Greece, which reminds me of a story.
Almost 15 years ago, after we were married in Florence, it took us 23 hours to get to Athens, Greece via ferry from Italy. We were cheap and almost broke and had to run to catch the last departing ferry boat/large ship. We paid the passage, only to learn they had no more cabins.
This was our honeymoon night.
We drank and talked in the small dining/bar area of the ship, meeting new people biding our time until everything closed down and the people who were lucky enough to get rooms went off …
Legal Organ for Name Changes
My local paper has a Thursday section called The Legal Organ. I love everything about this,
especially the name changes listings.
This week I found that:
Huai-ting Yen is requesting a name change to: Teresa Huaiting Yen-Willis
Morgan Lynett Grant to: Najya Sharifah El
Richard Long to: Long West Border
Those are great. I found one a while ago where the guy changed his ordinary name into a royal one. I cut it out and stuffed it in my files, and had to stop myself from calling him and asking him “Why?”
The most interesting thing about the name …
