Category: Travel

  •   First love. Second love. Last Love.     True love.   We are both mother and child, when it comes to love.                 Round statue in Budapest, Hungary.

  •       These solid, sturdy, dependable mountains, remind me of the wild, rolling ocean, wave after wave after wave.   Except they are very much more grounded than the airy, watery ocean waves.         The view from Brasstown Bald Mountain in Georgia. Reprinted with added text, from Laine's Blog, March 2013.

  •     There was a very short story, written years ago by Susan Sontag with a title similar to the title of this post. Once you have finished that story you discover that the author had never been to China after all!   Same thing here, neither have I!         The China…

  •   Ok, I never quite understood how pilots got onto the big ships.   Now, I do! These are the men and women who board a ship outside local harbors to guide them safely through unfamiliar waters.   Where that man is stepping off the pilot boat, there is a door that he slips into.…

  •   Just kidding, (you know who you are.)   Now yesterday's choices, Saint Augustine or Szentendre?   Well, it might have been Harry's on the bayfront here is St. Augustine, or possibly even The Riverside in Savannah, but it was Szentendre, Hungary on the Danube river.   Thanks for playing everyone, it was fun!  …

  •       Baltimore or Budapest?           Yesterday's answer…… Orlando, Disney Hollywood Studios, Faux Street!    

  •     San Francisco, or  Orlando?          

  •   Primitive anxieties in a "modern" world. Simpler when you can see the predator, and not some elusive shadow from the past.   How to cope?   Trust what you have learned, what you know is true.   Wait it out.   Look around you and believe what you see, not what you feel.  …

  •   In Disney parks, a lot of things are make believe.     But the sun setting at Epcot was very real.   As was the food and the people and the friends we came with and the friends we met at the park.   All real!       Epcot Park, Disney World, Florida.…

  •     Three days, three Disney parks… and oh so many princesses!     A whirlwind of fun, crowds and surprises, the first time for this old gal, with a new appreciation for the creativity that is Disney.         The Magic Kingdom, Castle and a lovely Princess and her little Prince.