I don’t remember the first time I visited a zoo. What I do remember is the excited anticipation of seeing wild animals that you were never going to see in the wild. That, and the endless searching, in treetops and at the back of dark, man made caves, behind boulders, and around hidden corners, searching and…
We got up early on a mid-January Sunday morning and left the Queen Mary Hotel heading for a day at Santa Anita Park. Traffic was fairly light- light by L.A. standards, that is. Those of us used to pulling onto a highway on a Sunday morning and seeing long expanses of empty pavement ahead of…
We’d been talking about taking a family trip this winter. Some place warm that would get us away from Ohio in January. No one wanted to spend a lot of money though so we had put off making travel plans. Then, one evening a couple of weeks ago, I was searching skyscanner.com and fell upon a…
Day #12; Toulon, France We got up early this morning and watched from our balcony as the Spirit pulled into the port of Toulon. This was, by far, the prettiest port area that we stopped at. Lots of yachts and naval vessels with wooded hills rising in the distance. “Hill-Top Le Castellet & Seaside Bandol” Our meeting…
