Category: Daily Life

Writing From “Hell Froze Over”, Barbados

September 30, 2018

Despite my best intentions and a lovely picture in my head of hopping around the globe with nothing but backpacks and a sense of adventure, not having a local “home” is rough.  That $%^&# is hard work!  If Thailand taught me 1 thing, it was that we need a base of operations.  It could be…

Holetown, Barbados

September 16, 2018

“Ouch!  Direct hit!  Nailed me in the arm!” Me to Evie. We were in a game of dodgeball-lite, using little green apples we found on the beach. Me to Scott, “Incoming on your 8!” He narrowly avoided a lobbed apple from Jack. The beach is a 5-minute walk for our little rental in Holetown Barbados. …

Baxter State Park: Middle of Nowhere Maine

July 29, 2018

By the light of a cozy campfire I read out loud, “I started to run and found I couldn’t, because of the boulders; that made me frantic and I climbed over them like a cat and yelled and shouted and cried all the time.  I yelled for my dad.  I climbed up as high as…

There’s A Fish In My Pants, Thailand

July 17, 2018

Me, with increasing concern closing in on hysteria, “It’s in my pants…. It’s in my pants… IT is IN my pants…. IT’S IN MY PANTS!!!!”  Jack turned to look at me, wide-eyed.   In what is surely TMI, I have on occasion, been known to go commando… sans underoos.  Never again.  Tonight, I became a true…

Koh Phi Phi – The Beach

July 11, 2018

Not all beaches in Thailand are created equal.  Thanks to the country’s seriously strong marketing skills, I was under the impression that the southern part of Siam is covered in pristine white sugar beaches.  That’s… not entirely accurate.  Those ’10 out of 10’ beaches exist, sure.  Just not where we were (giant black eels lurking in…