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by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger. How can a heart not melt when amongst penguins? This, my first close encounter, came January 29, 2017 on our voyage’s first foray onto the Antarctic landscape. This chinstrap penguin looking directly into the camera can’t possibly be for real…can it? I...
By Linda Laughter, guest blogger Growing up on the Gulf Coast of Texas, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was a yearly tradition in our home. Schools declared it a state holiday as we donned our finest cowboy apparel and headed to downtown Houston to see the Rodo Parade. Trail rides from all...
by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger The Kingdom of Bhutan in the eastern Himalaya is among the world’s few remaining mystical, magical places. Hidden from external influences until just a few years ago, the tiny landlocked nation of mostly Buddhists continues to honor its traditional ways while...
By Judy Bereza, guest blogger “We’re going where?” “We’re going where?” For a woman who likes to be in control, I had to relinquish all my instincts to plan every detail when we travel. It was our 50th Anniversary adventure, and my husband and his friend were in charge of...
Seattle Sculpture #3 by Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Theoretically it might not be deemed a ‘sculpture’ yet, it reads like one to me, jutting into space as it does above the Seattle landscape with its bird’s eye relationship to Puget Sound. On a recent self-guided tour of all things...
By Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Seattle Sculpture Part #2 The story is an interesting one and, for me, began in the early 1970’s with a trip to Berkeley, California. Go Figure and, welcome to the long and winding road back to Seattle and another approach to its love affair with...
by Peggy DePersia, guest blogger Given the associations I have made with the city of Seattle as well as it’s climate and weather from my earliest school girl discoveries, the result of elementary school geography studies, it seems appropriate and emblematic that a large scale, bright red,...
by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger The first time I saw Denali up close, it snuck up on me. In 2009, I had done some fancy four-wheel maneuvering with my cousin Mike and a group of new friends to his gold-panning acreage 17 miles or so beyond the pavement. We were way out on Petersville...
by Judy Bereza, guest blogger I’m not afraid to admit it: I’m a Disney World groupie. My husband and I not only have Disney World credit cards proudly displaying an image of that iconic mouse, but we have treated ourselves to annual passes. That doesn’t mean that we line up to ride Expedition...
by Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger The vastness of Alaska is practically impossible to grasp, even when it’s right in front of you. One way I like to help describe it is that the drive I’ve done now a couple of times from Anchorage to Anchorage (via Denali, Fairbanks, and Tok) makes a...