
Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a wonderful 2024! As promised in my previous post, here’s my 2023 reading summary – drum roll, please…. Books Read in 2023 Total Books: 60 Total Pages: 19167 Average: 319 Longest: 1045 Shortest: 83 Genres: 10 (Adventure Fiction, Biographical Historical Fiction, Biography, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Mystery, Mythology,…

I love to read. Always have. I recently realized I’ve read over 500 books since 2011. My mom, sister, and I were discussing this milestone, and my sister asked if I’d requested to stop at a library on the way home from the hospital after my birth! Maybe not, but I vividly remember the trips…

We’ve been home a week, laundry is done and pretty much everything is put up until the next trip. I’ve caught up on mail and bills and the crazy amount of dust that settled in the house while we were gone (thanks to help from Dave, too!). I got Mom caught up with updates on…

Reykjavik weather: Hi 54F, Rainy and Windy Houston weather: Hi 90F, Afternoon Storms And just like that, we were headed to the airport to fly home. We’ve seen and experienced so much on this trip and the last few days have been jam packed. But, of course, we must have one final adventure on the…

Expected weather: Hi 52F, Rainy Population: 138,875 (city) / 248,000 (Region) / 352,721 Disclosure: Writing this from my notes, pictures, and memory a couple of days after returning home. Another 8am start with Your Day Tours again, this time for the famous “Golden Circle” tour. Per YDT’s website description: we stop at all the main…

Expected weather: Hi 54F, Mostly Cloudy Population: 138,875 (Reykjavik) / 248,000 (Region) / 352,721 Disclosure: I’m writing this on the plane going home two days after the fact. Today we were to be picked up at our respective hotels around 8am for a small group tour of the South Coast with Your Day Tours. Their…