Categotry Archives: Travel
Almost Home
I’m still at my mother’s house, but I’ll be getting back to m desktop as soon as I can. I thought it would be easier to post and visit while traveling. I hit a hot spot three more times before now, but was always so tired I couldn’t handle it. In one case we were back in Ulaanbaatar for barely 12 hours, and had to not only sleep, but re-pack. Then it was off to the Gobi desert. I also […]
Mongolia and Eagles
Yep. That’s me holding a golden eagle and wearing some weird outfit. I was hanging with a Cossack family who use the eagle for hunting. It’s tour puts you right into people’s homes. It’s quite the experience. It has also given me some great ideas for my next book. I’m plotting it now. It’ll be set in Mongolia. Eagles in it? Don’t know yet, but could well be.
Mongolia
I’m away from keyboard again. As I mentioned on my Welcome page, I’m going to Mongolia for a few weeks. I’ll be sleeping in yurts, wandering through deserts, paddling across lakes, visiting museums, and meeting families who raise yacks and reindeer. Yes, of course I’m going to take pictures. 🙂 I’ll be glad to share them with you when I get back and have time to cull through what is good and what is not. I’m taking 32megs of memory, […]
13 Places I’d Like to Go.
1. Mount Everest. Only I’d rather take the helicopter and skip the climb 🙂 2. India. About any part would be fine. 3. Antarctica. Just to be able to say I was. 4. Australia. Both the coast where everyone lives, and the outback. 5. Africa. Wherever there is drumming 6. Norway. To see the fjords. 7. France. Particularly Paris for the Louvre, and the Eiffel tower. The Girls says “What about the catacombs. Come on, Mom.” 8. Indonesia. To see […]
13 Pictures of Craters of the Moon
As I mentioned on Monday, our vacation included a day at Craters of the Moon National Park. 1. The area starts off with some routine Western grandeur. If you didn’t know there was a lava field in the area, you’d never guess it.
Craters of the Moon
On our way to Cabo San Lucas, we stopped off at Craters of the Moon National Monument. For a measly ten dollars we got to spend the night at the campground there and for a few bucks extra we spent the next day driving around looking at “old” lava. Craters is in central Idaho. Two thousand years ago there was a “hot spot” under the area. I’m talking volcanic here, not internet. As the earth’s crust passed over the hot […]
Afraid of Heights?
I stayed at a part of the Playa Grande Resort called The Ridge. It’s aptly named as everything – the apartments, the pools, and the bar and grill are built on a narrow ridge. The views are incredible. Whether you are looking East or West, there is an expanse to admire. To get to it, you have to cross through a breezeway. I crossed over it several times without really thinking about the fact it is suspended five stories above […]
13 Things I Need to Remember
1. toothbrush 2. shampoo 3. quart sized ziplock baggy 4. laptop 5. camera 6. swimsuit 7. backup swimsuit 8. nice dress 9. beach shoes 10. passport 11. itinerary 12. undies 13. glasses cleaning cloth Who me, going somewhere? 😀
TTMT: Resort
A while back, a friend invited me to help her use a coupon for a fancy resort in Idaho. Yes, even Idaho has them. This place was so nice, even the cars had a good view to look out on.
160 – On a Jet Plane
Just like that she left him, got on a plane and didn’t look back. “See you next year,” she told her dad right before returning to college. Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
13 Pix – Bartolome, Black Turtle Cove, and the Tortoise Farm
After Fernandina, we whipped back around Isabela on another marathon night sailing and in the morning hit Bartolome. 1.
