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 hadn’t planned to visit here but I’m so glad we did. We were on our way to the San Diego Zoo and stopped at Mission San Juan Capistrano just to have a quick look around. General admission is $9 and it’s possible to take a guided or self guided audio tour. Because we had…
We boarded our flight at around 6 p.m. on a Saturday evening in mid-January. We lost three hours in the air and landed at LAX before 9. Six of us–myself, my husband, my sister, my daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were traveling. We had rented two cars. We were shuttled to the rental locations, picked up…
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…
Leaves were glowing in shades of red, orange, and gold the weekend my sister, my daughter, and I made a trip to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. We went for the shopping where numerous boutiques, outlet malls, antique marts, and other unique shopping spots fill the small towns and roadsides of this traditionally Amish area west of Philadelphia.
Eleven days ago we flew into Sioux Falls and our flight for home takes off today at 2:45 p.m. That gives us all morning to see something of the city. The highest-rated attraction, and the most logical thing for us to visit is– what else? The Sioux Falls. We set the GPS for the downtown park. I’m expecting…
