Just a quickie-post to get caught up, as I now need to dive into the posts about the trip. I think I've learned how to backdate posts, let's see if that's true. I have loved being home and having almost nothing on the schedule. Getting caught up on TV, but mostly on paperwork (and laundry). …

Continue reading Happy New Year!

This was an interesting year, and 2025 looks to be more interesting still. I don't have much to say about the presidential election that others haven't already said, except that I am hoping that Trump's and the Republicans' ineptitude have them tripping over their own feet rather than implementing one horror after another. Oh, I …

Continue reading 2024 Wrapup

I've been out of town since the 8th, with no time to blog. Grateful to get back to my lovely home last night in time to order a pizza, watch Elsbeth and Red One, and go to bed early. Today will be about a cemetery visit and phone calls to family and friends, mostly. I'm …

Continue reading There and Back Again

Dad and I both woke up in the middle of the night. He was uncomfortable because his hand had swollen up. Not so much painful, but I guess noticeable. It really looked swollen. I'm like, "oh, shit". We were so close to getting this man home and in the care of his doctors. What if …

Continue reading West Coast Road Trip, Day 14: Reno/DFW/RDU

Off to Reno today for our last stop of seven. As we'd been planning this, it hadn't occurred to me to worry about this, but more than one person had said, "driving through the mountains in December? Beware of snow!" This journey included the Donner pass, after all. But I'd been checking the weather and …

Continue reading West Coast Road Trip, Day 13: SF to Reno

Dad and I both had trouble sleeping and got up around 5:30 am.  No big deal but we didn’t have a flexible schedule.  One nice thing about our San Francisco hotel room was it has a little sitting area where Dad and I could both sit and read or surf the internet. We had coffee, hung …

Continue reading West Coast Road Trip, Day 12: San Francisco

It was going to be a rainy day, so the plan was to do a Big Bus tour in the morning and a museum in the afternoon. We didn’t have much to do until 10:00, so got up, got ready.  Went downstairs for breakfast and it turned out they had a whole big buffet something …

Continue reading West Coast Road Trip, Day 11: San Francisco

Merry Christmas! If I'd been travelling with someone other than my father, I would have made a real effort to put something Christmassy on the agenda, but I knew he wouldn't care and it was better just to leave it alone. But I did wish him "Merry Christmas!" when we got up. And we called …

Continue reading West Coast Road Trip, Day 10: Santa Cruz to San Francisco

This day was kind of a bust, unfortunately, except it still met the baseline of 'hey, new places to see' and 'let's putz around doing fun things'. Got up, got cleaned up, got the inn's free continental breakfast.  Headed out. It was raining pretty hard.  We went to the drugstore, then the gas station.  Dad …

Continue reading West Coast Road Trip, Day 9: Monterey to Santa Cruz

Woke up in San Simeon, absolutely beautiful day, not like the day before. Had breakfast at the hotel's restaurant, same place we had dinner. Packed up and off to Hearst Castle. They offered several tours, but made it clear that the basic tour (the "grand rooms") was the easiest in terms of stairs - but …

Continue reading West Coast Road Trip, Day 8: San Simeon to Monterey