Travel
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Note 34 – Portugal Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Unlike our Iceland, Greenland, Canada cruise (Note 5 through Note 25), where I blogged almost every day, I’m writing about our Portugal trip after our return. It will probably be a few days between posts as I process all of our pictures. We substituted this trip for our cancelled trip to Israel and used the…
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Note 32 – Portugal Prep
Expected weather: Hi 72F / Low 49F (historic average ranges for Porto and Lisbon during this time) We are about to leave for Portugal. I gave a high-level overview of what we were thinking back in Note 28, but here is what we have now planned. Day 1 – Lisbon to Porto We should arrive…
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Note 31 – March 2024 Books
March Madness! How’s everyone’s brackets going into Final Four weekend? I’m sure everyone had the men’s and women’s teams for both UConn and NC State in their Final Four brackets, right!? LOL! Should be fun all around this weekend. I did end up reading more than I expected between all the games, and here’s the final…
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Note 29 – January 2024 Books
Late last year, I discussed my life-long love of reading and the past decade or so of my favorites in Note 26. In early January, I covered my 2023 year in books in Note 27. That was quite an undertaking and I decided that this year I will break it down into smaller pieces and…
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Note 28 – 2024 Spring Trip Planning
I suspect that you’ve all been wondering where we planning to travel next. Well, it isn’t where we thought we’d be going when we returned from Iceland last September! I was going to wait a few weeks after my review of that trip and announce our next trip, but 3 weeks later it became apparent…
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Note 25 – Summary of Iconic Iceland, Greenland, and Canada 2023
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…
Notes By Nancy 