Sherry | August 16, 2011
We caught an early flight back to Portland this morning, and I was back at the office after lunch. Ah, the miracle (it is to me) of air travel! It’s hard to come back to earth after such a memorable adventure. I’m still pinching myself and reviewing all the pieces that fell into place to [...]
Sherry | August 14, 2011
I wasn’t sure I would post what we did today. I mean, do you really care to see where we ate breakfast and lunch? And how interesting would it be for you to see picture after picture of us seeing the Alaskan landscape? And do you really want to see yet another picture of us [...]
Sherry | August 14, 2011
Here we are in Alaska! Five years ago we flew to Rhode Island and rented a car for a road trip through New England so I could add all of those states to my life list, which brought me to the near-complete number of 49. Meanwhile, I continued to live a 3.5-hour flight from state [...]
Sherry | May 30, 2011
As soon as we arrived here, Oscar started talking about “the pond.” He talks in phrases at this point but with his parents handy to fill in the blanks we learned this was a favorite place to visit. You can feed ducks, see turtles, and watch extra large fish (koi) swim near the surface. Turned [...]
Sherry | May 29, 2011
Back in 2006, on a road trip through the Northeast, we attended an unprogrammed Friends meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. Our experience this morning at Old Haverford Friends Meeting in Haverford, Pennsylvania, was in most ways the same. This meeting is exactly 200 years older than Newberg Friends, which is considered old on the other [...]
Sherry | January 12, 2009
Mauri’s getting a slow start this year in sending me postable pictures from the coast. Now that’s he’s into his second week, he won’t have as much prep work to do and might get out more with his camera. I kinda like this one from last week: But I especially like one he sent this [...]
Sherry | December 2, 2008
You probably guessed we got home again. Here are a few pictures to go with my last post. I didn’t know what lay ahead when I snapped this snowless pic of the Aspen Glen sign. Before long, this was the general scene. Anyone want to guess how thankful we were for the built-in DVD player [...]
Sherry | November 30, 2008
The sun was shining brightly when we left our plush accommodations shortly before noon. We wanted to get a jump on the other vacationers who we figured would be hitting the slopes one last time. We zipped along Interstate 70, even as light snow fell outside the comfort of our car. Right about Vail snow [...]
Sherry | June 28, 2008
The travelers have returned! Two full days on planes and in airports made the vision of our PDX transporters, Pete and Linsey, even more sweet. We feel successful, in that we accomplished the goal of experiencing The Iona Community to the full and broadening our world view. We were blessed with good health, good weather, [...]
Sherry | June 25, 2008
Every trip needs some drama and we had ours this morning. We had a hint last night when we bought the petrol and our credit card was rejected. Rejected! Thankfully we had enough currency to pay for it. We decided to think optimistic thoughts until we needed to buy train tickets to London. Here’s the [...]