If they gave awards for the country’s best, Scotland would win the following: Our Scottish holiday started with the beat of a bass drum leading a 45-member pipe band in their colorful red and black kilts in the 2023 Pipe Band World Championships. It was quite by accident that we discovered this was happening in Glasgow after we landed there for our two-day rest between the end of our Ireland tour and the beginning of our Scotland tour. But we snapped up two tickets to the Friday Continue Reading
What I’ll remember most about Ireland
When someone mentions Ireland, what do you think of? Green countryside? Red-hair? Celtic dancers? Potatoes? I’ve just completed a 14 day trip with CIE Tours that included Northern Ireland in addition to the Republic of Ireland and what will I recall the most? The storytelling and humor, no question. The line between the two is often blurred, and Irish whiskey is only occasionally involved. The stories, emotional but also humorously uplifting, and the jokes, casual and natural, captured Continue Reading
Life in a frying pan
My friend, Karen, gets up at 5:00 a.m. to drive her dog to a patch of grass two miles away. He does his business, then runs around like crazy for a few minutes. The rocks and sidewalk around her house are already too hot for his feet. At 5:30 a.m., Kathy leaves the house in the golf cart for a 6:07 tee time. Her cooler is stocked with sports drinks. I hear the neighbor’s outdoor workmen who begin 6:00 a.m.. By 7:00 a.m., I’m grocery shopping. I smooth out the reflective screen across Continue Reading
New Mexico Visit
New Mexico is known as the Land of Enchantment. After recently spending two weeks traveling throughout the state, I’m calling it the Land of Enlightenment. Our interest in visiting our 47th state was initiated by artwork including jewelry and pottery that we’d seen at the annual Native American Market at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. Much of it comes from artists from the various Native American Pueblos in New Mexico, so we went in search of … Pueblos What exactly is a Pueblo? Here’s my Continue Reading