
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 Read: 4 Total Pages Read: 1277 Longest Read: 406 Shortest Read: 104 Total Books Skimmed: 2 Total Pages Skimmed: 2610 Genres: 5 (Fiction – 1, History – 1, Mystery – 1, Thriller – 1, Travel – 2) If you’ve previously read my Notes on my monthly reading, you may have noticed that my…

Our next trip is quickly approaching towards the end of the month. In 2017, we took our first cruise – Viking River’s 15-day Grand European cruise – from Budapest to Amsterdam. This begins on the Danube River, then continues primarily on the Main and the Rhine rivers. We weren’t sure what to expect, but by…

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…

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…

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…