Joyfully Retired

Today I am on a train – again. I’m heading back to my husband in Northern California. After three weeks “entertaining” my mom, I’m ready to go home. I decided to run a Favorite Place I’ve shown before. Mom and I watched, then talked about the PBS/Ken Burns special on the National Parks. This past [...]

Sunday is the day I like to share with you some of the place we’ve visited in our travels. No matter where we go, I usually like to check in on two places – local bookshops and yarnshops. I consider books and yarn legitimate tourist attractions.
Today I want to concentrate on the places that love [...]

Today is the day I share with you one of the place we’ve visited in our travels. It’s one we call a Favorite Place. Today it’s Old Faithful — Old Faithful, California, that is.
This Old Faithful is located a couple miles outside the little town
of Calistoga. That’s in the northern part of Napa Valley, California.
According [...]

Today is the day I share with you one of the place we’ve visited in our travels. It’s one we call a Favorite Place. Today, I want to take you to a very small town in southwestern Colorado – Ouray, Colorado.
We spent time in Ouray back when our children were pre-teens. We had so
much fun [...]

Today is the day I share some of the Favorite Places we have visited in our travels around North America. Today I want to show you the place where my husband and I first camped together:
Tuttle Creek State Park, in Kansas. This is the field where we
first pitched our tent. Forty-seven years ago it didn’t [...]

Sunday is the day I stop and tell you about one of the places we’ve visited while traveling around North America. We call them our Favorite Places. In 2009 we spent some time in Moab, Utah. From there you can visit quite a number of National Parks. We concentrated on Arches and Canyonlands. Canyonlands National [...]

We visited the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in September of 2009.  It is so quiet and peaceful that it captured us and it became one of our Favorite Places.
This preserve is located in east-central Kansas. Prior to the immigration of pioneer settlers in central North America, the area from Indiana to Kansas and Canada to [...]