Monthly Archives: February 2024
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Auckland, Part One
December 28, 2023 – January 1, 2024 The Christmas holiday arrived, and we hosted this year as there would be a very short turnaround between the 25th and our flight to Auckland on the 28th. I met with my eye surgeon on the 27th who confirmed that the blood was clearing out and all looked […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024
December 28 – February 6 Throughout the second half of 2023 we began to actively plan for our long-delayed journey to New Zealand and Australia. Between Covid and various health issues, we’d pushed the trip back two years and now with my sister Bev’s pending retirement, we could move forward with filling in the details […]
West Coast Fall 2023, Part Two
October 10 – 19 The next day, Friday, Kristen, Brian, Joanna, and I took off for Muir Woods National Monument. Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, It protects 554 acres of which 240 acres are old growth coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests, one of a few such stands remaining in the San Francisco […]
West Coast Fall 2023, Part One
October 10 – 19 October rolled around and we planned a three week road trip that would take us to Oakland to celebrate Jessica’s milestone birthday (I won’t reveal what age that is), Kamp Angst, Bishop, Henderson, Meadview (to visit 90 plus year old Uncle Dick), Flagstaff, Sedona, and Tucson, giving us lots of opportunities […]
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