
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…

Half the fun for me in taking a trip is the planning. First, a follow-up to a my comment in Note 1 that this is our first “really big” trip post-pandemic. We did go on a “big” 12-day trip last fall to Greece with a half-day in Turkey. It was a fully escorted 10-day tour…