
Our next adventure is beginning. We are embarking on Viking Ocean’s 13-day, 6-country Mediterranean Odyssey cruise from Barcelona to Venice. We will fly in a day early and spend the night at a hotel near the Barcelona airport. On embarkation day, we’ve booked a private half-day tour to Montserrat with pickup at our hotel and…

Total Books: 5 Total Pages: 1344 Longest: 384 Shortest: 94 Genres: 3 (Fiction – 2, History/Memoir – 1, Mystery – 2) A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz This is the 3rd in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series in which the author plays sidekick to former DI Daniel Hawthorne as his biographer of sorts. This…

Total Books: 5 Total Pages: 1563 Longest: 443 Shortest: 118 Genres: 5 (Fiction – 1, History – 1, Historical Fiction – 1, Mystery – 1, Science – 1) Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson Living near the Texas Gulf Coast all my life, I grew up with a healthy respect for tropical storms and hurricanes. Any…

Total Books: 2 Total Pages: 873 Longest: 443 Shortest: 430 Genres: 1 (Historical Fiction – 2) Our Montana Adventure took up most of my time this month – traveling the first couple of weeks, then trying to process photos and write the blog the rest of the month and into August. I was still somewhat…

This morning, we traveled back to Billings and ate a late breakfast at the Hog Wild Café. This was small local restaurant, and I think the majority of the customers were “regulars”. Friendly service, hot coffee, and another good breakfast had us ready for our final adventure of the trip – an hour’s drive southeast…

Only an hour from Billings, the historic town of Red Lodge is an easy trip for locals, especially skiers in the winter and those just wanting a relaxing day or two in this quaint town. For breakfast, we decided to walk two blocks to Café Regis located in the historic Regis Grocery building. Locally owned…