Mondays are for Dreaming: White Christmas
The holiday season is in full swing here in our little hamlet of Pine Lake. This past weekend, we celebrated with our Pancake Breakfast with Santa, Cookie Exchange and Lighting of the Lake. Our house is decked with a tree, lights and pine rope. Holly, the contemporary Sirius/XM holiday music station is almost always turned
Mondays are for Dreaming: The Beach
This Monday I’m dreaming of the beach. I’m disappointed in myself for dreaming of the beach…can’t I come up with something more exciting? But no, when I imagine myself going somewhere this week, it’s the beach. As for which beach, I’m actually not all that picky. Sure, I’d like it to be clean and fairly
Mondays Are For Dreaming: A Wall Walk
Back in the summer of 2006, we spent a couple of weeks in Scotland, combining vacation with a business trip of my husband’s. During our week in Edinburgh, where we loved our self-catering apartment whose kitchen window looked out (up to) Edinburgh Castle, the girls and I took one day to make a crazy journey
Universal Orlando Photos
Photos from our trip to Universal Orlando:
California Photos
Photos from my Labor Day weekend trip to California:
World of Coca-Cola Photos
Photos from the World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, GA:
Topkapi Palace
Travels in Turkey, Part 2 of 12 On our first full day in Turkey, we had most of the day to explore Istanbul before needing to hop on a ferry across to the Asian side to catch an overnight train to Ankara. Since we were scheduled to have only one other full day in Istanbul,
Wilderness at the Smokies Photos
Photos from the Wilderness at the Smokies in Sevierville, TN:
compare and contrast
Our mini-retreats last weekend and this weekend have provided a fascinating study in contrasts. Last weekend we were in Panama City Beach; today, the girls and I headed in the opposite direction to the Pigeon Forge area to stay at a waterpark resort, Winderness in the Smokies (I haven’t spotted the wilderness yet). At this
Panama City Beach Photos
Photos from the Holiday Inn Resort and WonderWorks in Panama City Beach, FL:
wanderlust
i am so torn. I love our little Pine Lake hamlet. We’ve spent the past month exploring the new wetlands, watching the ducklings grow. We’ve watched the change of seasons from winter into spring into summer. We’ve celebrated and mourned with our neighbors. I love our city. But I’m ready to go…. And go we
National Museum of Natural History Photos
Photos from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History:
New York City Photos
From our train trip to NYC earlier this month:
Thursday Thirteen
My friend Kat over at Sunshine and Lemonade posted a list of thriteen places she’d like to go. My thirteen is a little different from hers. I’d say that her lists includes quite a few places that I’d like to take my kids (Colonial Williamsburg, Yellowstone), but only one or two places that I have
Hey, I Know That Place
Heck, I could have taken it. Compare the photo at the left that I took in 2004 to the one in the Washington Post article Why Did the Tourists Cross the Channel? The Baths in Virgin Gorda is a magical place. One that I’ve been to four (I think) times now and one to which
Gotta Hit the Road!
I’m fighting cabin fever. In my work mail today, I got a notice of an Air France deal that I almost snapped up. It would be less than $2K for the girls and I to fly to Paris for a week. I almost clicked “buy.” I know we would have a great time, even if
GBK Gwyneth
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