Well I finally got to play some pickleball for a few days.  The weather was okay and I met some nice people who play about my level, some better, some not as good, but it was a lot of fun. The birding group has been working over the past few years to create a…

Greetings from sunny Arizona.   Denny and Annie having lunch in front of our casita. It hasn’t been quite so sunny and warm for a few days but now it’s warming up again and should be in the high 60’s-low 70’s for the next week. We’ve been here a little over a week now. Let…

Leila, Tessa, Sam, Tionna, Nancy, Denny, David and Cindy Here we are on New Year’s Day at David’s house.  It was probably the only time in the 2 weeks we were there that all of us were together but we had lots of fun with all .  We arrived very late on Dec. 23rd in…

The next day walked along the Quai to the beautiful Musee d’Orsay with their wonderful collection of pre to post impressionists. It is housed in the former Gare d’Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. We walked along the Quai some more before making our way up to Montmartre. We did a…

Our Airbnb in Paris was larger than London and a whole lot quieter. Our neighborhood and our building It did have a problem however, which was that we didn’t have hot water! It was fortunately quite warm outside so taking cold showers wasn’t too awful. We did complain but were told that the hot water…

  The next morning we set out at what we thought was early —9:30 for an 11:00 changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. We were sadly mistaken as there was already a huge crowd around the yard but we were able to find a place where we could watch the procession in and hear…

This is a big year for our granddaughter Tessa. She graduated from high school and turned 18. She starts college, Washington State University, in the honors program in August. To celebrate all this we wanted to do something special for her so we asked her where we could take her and she responded, London. Then…

We rode the bus back to Nogales, Mexico, then crossed the border and picked up a rental car and got a really lousy motel in Nogales, AZ.  Fortunately it was only for one night!  We were in time to meet our friends Judy and Don at Wisdoms for dinner.  If you’re ever near Tubac, AZ,…

We leave for Arizona tomorrow so I wanted to wrap up our time here.  The weather got somewhat warmer and definitely sunnier but not what you’d call hot until 2 days ago.  It’s still cool in the mornings and evenings but during the day we get to 70.  The unfortunate thing about the weather is…

After the last post our weather changed.  It got cloudy, windy and cooler (low to mid 60’s).  We even had what passes for rain around here which isn’t much.  The wind stopped us from riding our bikes but we either walked or taxied instead. We visited a place called CEDO – Intercultural Center for the…