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It was an easy 1.5 hour flight from Istanbul to Athens with a tasty lunch included. (Note I said lunch was included). A nice cab driver took us to our apartment In Athens. He was shocked that I knew what avogolemono soup is, but he told me it was “mama food” and should not beContinue reading “Athens, Not Georgia”

After saying good bye to Maris we headed to Istanbul. The more we visit Brooklyn the more we like it. We talked about how New York truly has a little bit of every country. While its a very pricey place to live you never really need to travel because everything is in New York. SoContinue reading “Bye Bye!”

Our property in Baja Sur has many gnarled sprawling trees that we were told were wild plums. In fact they are called cyrtocarpus edulis and really are not a plum at all. Sadly many have been bulldozed away in Baja Sur but the former owners of our home kept them and in fact called theContinue reading “Plum Happy”

Well I had this great idea to put 2 photos side by side so that you could see our before and after photos of our new place, but after excessive research learned that I can no longer do that without upgrading to premium. Sorry, but you will just have to do twice as much scrolling.Continue reading “Before and after”

I keep thinking we are going to do posts about the uniqueness of where we are living here in Mexico. Somehow we keep managing to take a trip to some terrific place. It is wonderful to be able to do both. We spent a couple of weeks on the East Coast this time. Just 5.5Continue reading “Back in the US (not SR)……”

After many years of visiting the Baja during months too hot to do much other than swim, snorkel, paddle, SUP, or sip a margarita, we are finally here at a time that is perfect for exploring the many miles of trails here. Most are shared with mountain bikers….who in fact I believe are the onesContinue reading “A Few of My Favorite Hikes…..”

After a great visit with friends from Virginia, we decided we might as well grab a flight if we were at the airport. We chose Mexico City. Given our quick decision, we did little research. Very quickly we realized that the city would require many visits to fully explore. Brant loves ruins (I do tooContinue reading “Yes it is a very big city:”

Several years ago we went to the “waterfalls”. It was a mere trickle though a fun ride so was shocked by the changes made by a big storm and a bit more water. This arroyo is less than a five minute ride from our home. It is a well traveled arroyo with dozens of choicesContinue reading “Waterfalls by ATV: It’s about the Journey”

I take an absurd number of bird photos and I am not sure why. I worried we would not have enough birds on our propertyas I loved feeding the birds back in Shingle Springs (so glad the new owner is a birdwatcher). Now I worry that I am not keeping up to the seed supply.Continue reading “The Birds”

We told our realtor we wanted a small home with nice views of the mountains, walkable to the beach where we would be able to have a nice vegetable garden. It was a tougher task then we thought but we got what we wanted. Perhaps it was even more gardening than we bargained for! LeavingContinue reading “Baja Gardening”

We had always wanted to go shopping in Guadalajara but decided we had enough stuff. Fortunately our friends suggested we go together and glad we did not resist the temptation (at least so far, ask us after we get everything delivered). People always ask if it was worth it and I think the answer isContinue reading “Tlaquepaque/Tonala’: A Brief dissertation on my husband’s favorite activity”

We finally took a flight within Mexico—from Cabo to Guadalahara. A quick 1 1/2 hour flight then a cab ride to the bus terminal where we got on a “luxury” bus and headed to Guanajautu. The only bad thing that happened on this trip was the food at the bus terminal—-guess that means it wasContinue reading “Guanajautu”

After 2 months of agonizing over throwing away, giving away, selling or taking every single object in our lives, we celebrated a couple big birthdays at our Skyline home (Sally’s house). Then the next day we hopped in the tremendously overpacked truck and headed south. To illustrate how overpacked our truck was, I will tellContinue reading “The Wild and Crazy Drive”

We wanted to have this as a way to stay in touch with friends as we feel a bit anchorless (a word?)lately, but if we make this too informational we realize its a bit boring. Here is the quick outline so that we can move on to other site specific topics: After completing a nearContinue reading “Time to Catch up……”

We have been here in Surry Maine now for about a week and leave in a couple days. It is a hard place to describe in a few words but will try. Where we are staying: Surry Barn. This was a farm … hmmm a hundred years old? So there is a collection of buildings.Continue reading “10 days in the Milk Barn”

I think Brant is a little tired of me photographing mushrooms. I keep saying I will only stop only for red mushrooms white polka dots, but that was before I knew mushrooms came in teal blue and purple. All were photographed in Maine on various trails. There are tons of CBD dispensaries here, but IContinue reading “Mushrooms of Maine”

Yup, we are still in Maine. We left the coast for a few days to visit the North Woods of Maine. I had never visited this part of Maine of before. On the way, another stop at LLBean in Bangor to return a couple bathing suits revealed that I had apparently never bought them beforeContinue reading “Moosehead Lake”

After a few days in Brooklyn we headed to Acadia which is about a nine hour drive from Brooklyn. As always it surprises me how fast you leave the city behind and enter a beautiful green world. (Of course, with less options for dining and drinking). We have spent the last 10 days in aContinue reading “Acadia”

So time to hopefully test negative for COVID and head to Maine via NYC. I realized we have 2 plums in the yard, neither of which really tastes like a plum. The first is the Baja wild plum which has an interesting sweet sour hazelnut flavor. The second is called the Natal plum which IContinue reading “Another fruit….”