Travel

Melbourne 2024 January

We arrived and checked into our favorite apartment complex. The accommodation was only on the 9th floor and the nearby buildings blocked out a proper sunset. We were still thrilled to be in the CBD with the world of flavors at our fingertips. Sadly, basement sushi was closed 🙁 but we found some new favorite […]

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Machu Picchu – Peru

Upon arriving from Ecuador, son disclosed that he had a sore throat so I had to get a new room. Booo. Thankfully, we had a tour for our time in Peru. An engaging and knowledgeable guide picked us up at the hotel and took us on a city tour which included some of the Inca

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Quito

December 21-25, 2023 After the Galapagos, we traveled to Quito where Son joined us for an adventure so we could all acclimatize to the altitude. We started our tour with a visit to Basílica del Voto Nacional, the largest neo-Gothic Catholic basilica in the Americas. The structure was beautiful and the views were stunning. On

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Galapagos

December 13-20, 2023 My “roman empire” is evolution. This is a topic that my mind thinks deeply about when I can’t sleep and when I am visiting a museum. As Darwin traveled on “The Beagle”, he began looking at his surroundings with a critical eye and began to question how and why life was the

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Wisconsin

In spring, Sister noted that she had to travel to Wisconsin for work and then asked if I wanted to join her so we could visit our father and brother. Ambivalence was my response until I returned from our Africa trip when I agreed to go. Sister contacted them and proposed 2 lunches, it seemed

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