When I was 25 years young and working for the summer at a resort outside of Denali National Park in Alaska I got the big idea in my head to go to Thailand. I was in the process of breaking up with a boy and also breaking up with my life as a parkie (serial employee of park concessioners) to go back to school. Continue reading “That One Time We Went to Thailand with My Mom and Dad (Part 1)”
In anticipation of my 40th birthday, I scoured the web for fun adventures that I might want to do to celebrate. Knowing that I could only get about two weeks off of work I wanted to cut down on travel time to whichever destination I settled on. Also, I wanted a physically challenging trip to prove to myself that 40 was just a number and I could still do anything I wanted. Continue reading “Hiking the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail”
When I was nineteen, or maybe I was twenty, I went in halvsies with my best friend Vanessa on a 1972, or maybe it was ’73, Toyota Chinook. It was waiting for us with a For Sale sign in the window on the side of a dusty road, or maybe it was a paved road, in a small town near Sacramento. Continue reading “So We Bought a Mini-Motorhome….”
One cannot spend their entire vacation eating fruit and swimming in the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea. Every now and again one must venture out and have a serious chocolate experience! Continue reading “A Chocolate Experience in Costa Rica”
What better time to escape to the tropics than when California is getting her first real winter in four years? When I’m in any warm clime I cant help but seek out a perfect place by the sea to soak it all in. There is no shortage of beaches to choose from in and around Puerto Viejo. Continue reading “Beaches of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica”
Most years of my adult life our family has converged on my brother’s house to celebrate Christmas. He is well equipped to host us. He has a gracious wife, cute kiddos (teenagers now!) and ample floor space. Last year while we stared out at the grey Oregon sky after the flurry of gift unwrapping and cookie munching had subsided the notion of Destination Christmas took ahold of us. Mom volunteered to sponsor the trip. Thanks, Mom!!! A few location ideas were volleyed and vetoed before we settled on Costa Rica. Fun in the sun was what we were after. We found it in Puerto Viejo! Continue reading “A Week in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica”
