What is Transportation like in Thailand? Scooters, scooters and more scooters- 90% of the automobiles on the road in Thailand are scooters/motor bikes. In fact, you can rent one for only about $6 a day. Forget about large fancy gas stations, here,they sell gas on the side of the road in small glass bottles. For 30B, [...]
While in quarantine, I have been reflecting back on all the wonderful experiences and people that we encountered while in South Africa. A smile comes to my face as a cherish these thoughts of un-expected friends and guests. I figured I should share some of them with all of you. After all, that is what blogging [...]
During the week from Christmas to New Years, we found ourselves in a delimma. We had a one week break without any Airbnb reservations. We pondered what to do and decided we would venture out and do some pet sitting. This turned out to be an amazing and fun decision! Our previous Arbnb host, Trudy, connected [...]
For those of you that know me well, you know that I have been a single mother and sole-provider to my children for many years. I loved my profession in the sense that I felt I was truly able to help people in the healing and recovery process. I worked in every environment possible as to [...]
For the past 4-5 years I have been pondering if I wanted to pursue my Physical Therapy path. After 20 + years of practicing, I had somehow become bored despite changing environments. My soul seemed to be stagnant . How was I going to change that? I spent several hours researching the possibility of going back [...]
Before I left the US,I tried to get my prescriptions refilled for 6 months. As silly as it sounds,I was afraid to see a foreign doctor and was afraid they wouldn't have equivalent medications for what I had been taking for the past 7 years. Thank goodness we picked a small town to live in while [...]
"It is a journey into an imaginary universe of symbolism and metaphor..." I read on the brochure. IF this did not capture your attention, you must be crazy! When I stumbled across this quote, I was like OMG, yes!! I NEED some of that in my life!! I was planning this tour! Quinta da Regaleira is [...]
Living in the states, I never gave transportation a second thought. Granted, I had a dependable automobile and therefore, would just hop in and go to and from my various destinations. Of course there were several times when I purchased an airline ticket to travel somewhere further away. I knew that when we left the USA [...]
When I first told my children that I had decided to travel Europe for the year, they told me that I had lost my mind! "Sell your stuff and quit your job ... why??!!" I understand that it made absolutely no sense to them. I had taken a "leap of faith", which was very unlike me. [...]
We had heard a lot about Hostels in Europe and decided to give it a try while we were going through Granada on our way to Malaga. We did some research and heard about El Granado.... everyone was raving...so we booked it! We were a little nervous being on the "older side" of things but it [...]
While staying at the El Granado Hostel, we were offered a free 2 hour walking tour around the city. Prior to leaving, the guide suggested we all wear appropriate footwear as the cobblestone streets could be slippery. As I had already picked the perfect outfit for the evening , I opted to ignore her suggestion and [...]
As many of you know, my son Jake is a U.S. Marine. We found out some fantastic news recently! He is being deployed to Sicily but has a month long stop over in... wait for it.... Seville, Spain! We were super stoked when we found out because we were in the middle of planning our [...]