Most beaches along the east coast don’t have sunsets on the ocean. But because Atlantic Beach, NC, is a barrier island that cuts into the mainland, it is southfacing and you can watch sunsets from the beach. I literally said, “We may as well have died and gone to heaven,” when we arrived Thursday night […]
Who are you? I call all the flowers in the Orchid Garden ‘darlings.’ Joe in the Asian garden. Lily or lotus? Joe walks the labyrinth. Breezes and waterfalls. Joe’s “Virginia is for Lovers” hat. He gets another hat for the Hopa’s fruit hat series. It looks like wisteria but it’s not. Yes, we have no […]
I’ve always been a treasure hunter. When I was young and living in Massachusetts, I dug in old backyard dumps for hand blown glass bottles and other finds. I’ve been collecting shells from beaches around the world for about 40 years. Who knew Marco Island was one of the best places in the world to […]
I ended my last post by saying, the gulf wasn’t warm enough to swim in and that we’d try again tomorrow. Well we did and it was! See HERE. The fountain of youth. I stayed in for a long time and saw a dolphin that I first thought was a shark because the fin looked […]
That’s what I heard Joe say to a Hot Springs NC street vending palm reader as we whizzed by on our bicycles on the way for a tub. Our therapeutic hot mineral soak overlooking the river was divine. Hot Springs Resort & Spa was popular in the 1800s. At one time it was part of […]
______Our World Tuesday/ Wordless Wednesday
Sometimes the best thing you can do at the beach is to go to the pool, especially when it’s 95 degrees, you have a sunburn and the wind at the shore is in full force. A little girl at the pool gave me a strange look and then asked her daddy, “Why is she in […]
We topped off our Atlantic Beach vacation with a visit to “Willie’s Joint” and seeing Willie and the outlaws (Lucas Nelson, Alison Krauss and Bonnie Raitt) playing at the Walnut Creek Music Park in Raleigh. We got busted early on for changing our seats even though we stayed in the same section. At over $100 […]
As soon as we arrived in London, after a long day of travel from Italy, we headed straight for the pub. After finding no IPAs in France and only a couple of bottled ones in Italy, it was good to be in England and enjoy a really good beer, not to mention that everyone spoke […]
The whole reason for putting the Cinque Terre on my bucket list was that years ago I read Shirley Maclaine’s book about hiking the Camino and entertained the idea of making that month-long pilgrimage someday. The reality is, I don’t have the stamina to pull something like that off. The idea of taking shorter hikes […]
__ From my understanding, The Chalice (Calice) is a group of small communities near Santa Maria, Italy, set like a bowl within the surrounding mountains. This is one of the first sights we saw when we arrived via train from the Cinque Terra to visit our friends Rick and Donna, 16 Hands cofounders/studio potters who […]
After three days in Paris, we headed to Italy and immersed ourselves at the Cinque Terre village of Monterosso. First, in the Porto Roca infinity pool (that’s a vineyard behind me and the trail for the walk to the next village which Joe hiked). and then in the teal blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. […]
