Now we sit comfortably on the porch. The hubs doesn't do sun anymore. We have plastic tumblers with actual ice. There's a bathroom just inside the porch door. But we still have our books, the breeze, and the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
So I have this new Chromebook ....
Sitting here on the porch at a rented house on St. George Island, Florida, I can see the Gulf of Mexico and feel the breeze, but I'm in the shade in a comfortable chair and typing on my new Chromebook. This is the best of all possible worlds for me - no sand. Once all I wanted was to sit under an umbrella a few feet away from the water all day long and just read. The hubs and I would bring water and the portable satellite radio, books and snacks, and there we would sit. At lunchtime I would trudge back up to wherever we were staying and make lunch, pack it and bring it back under the umbrella. Sometimes we would nap. We would take periodic walks. The hubs would lie out in the sun (yep). And everything - everything - would be sandy. Our feet (and consequently our flipflops, chairs, towels, water bottles and the portable satellite radio), our bodies under our suits, even our hair.
Now we sit comfortably on the porch. The hubs doesn't do sun anymore. We have plastic tumblers with actual ice. There's a bathroom just inside the porch door. But we still have our books, the breeze, and the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.
Now we sit comfortably on the porch. The hubs doesn't do sun anymore. We have plastic tumblers with actual ice. There's a bathroom just inside the porch door. But we still have our books, the breeze, and the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
DAY 1 - Travel from Tallahassee to Vancouver, B.C., the beginning of "a remarkable journey through the stunning landscapes, charming towns, and beautiful lakes of the Canadian Rockies." (Travel brochure)
Annnnd here I am - on the road again, struggling with this very, very old Netbook, but determined to memorialize this trip which will give me a big checkoff on the bucket list - to put my old south Alabama feet (well-covered in warm socks and shoes) on an actual glacier. While we still have glaciers.
Mike and I joined 20 OLLI friends very early this morning at the airport, beginning an eight-day trip that will take us to Vancouver, then north into the Canadian Rockies. Since our old bones take a lot of waking up in the morning, we rolled out at 2:30 a.m. (OMG) and bonded with our Uber driver promptly at 4:20 a.m. (Side note here: Gertrude "Trudy" O'Farrell is spending the next eight days with Miss Jean, the Puppy Lady, which is roughly equivalent to a week at the Ritz-Carlton.for dogs.)
After two very smooth, on-time flights, Tallahassee to Dallas to Vancouver, we landed and made our way to our home for a little bit, the Westin Bayshore Vancouver. Since we had had the following to eat since 2:30 a.m.: four small pieces of melon; two packets of airline biscotti, approximately 1X2Xmicroscopic; an Egg McMuffin - and since it was now 4:00 p.m. Tallahassee time, we grabbed a little lunch.
It's a beautiful day in Vancouver. They have what looks like lots of cherry trees here, all in almost-full bloom. There are jonquils in the medians. And it's cold. Locals are basking in the sunshine, loving it - it's 40 degrees. In April. What were we thinking? (Thinking it's April, which is a beautiful month with great weather, but maybe not in Canada.) Anyway, we brought lots of warm clothes, although in admittedly odd combinations, so we are ready.
But first, we're taking a nap.
Annnnd here I am - on the road again, struggling with this very, very old Netbook, but determined to memorialize this trip which will give me a big checkoff on the bucket list - to put my old south Alabama feet (well-covered in warm socks and shoes) on an actual glacier. While we still have glaciers.
Mike and I joined 20 OLLI friends very early this morning at the airport, beginning an eight-day trip that will take us to Vancouver, then north into the Canadian Rockies. Since our old bones take a lot of waking up in the morning, we rolled out at 2:30 a.m. (OMG) and bonded with our Uber driver promptly at 4:20 a.m. (Side note here: Gertrude "Trudy" O'Farrell is spending the next eight days with Miss Jean, the Puppy Lady, which is roughly equivalent to a week at the Ritz-Carlton.for dogs.)
After two very smooth, on-time flights, Tallahassee to Dallas to Vancouver, we landed and made our way to our home for a little bit, the Westin Bayshore Vancouver. Since we had had the following to eat since 2:30 a.m.: four small pieces of melon; two packets of airline biscotti, approximately 1X2Xmicroscopic; an Egg McMuffin - and since it was now 4:00 p.m. Tallahassee time, we grabbed a little lunch.
It's a beautiful day in Vancouver. They have what looks like lots of cherry trees here, all in almost-full bloom. There are jonquils in the medians. And it's cold. Locals are basking in the sunshine, loving it - it's 40 degrees. In April. What were we thinking? (Thinking it's April, which is a beautiful month with great weather, but maybe not in Canada.) Anyway, we brought lots of warm clothes, although in admittedly odd combinations, so we are ready.
But first, we're taking a nap.
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