When you get the call that you hope you will never receive in this lifetime, “you have cancer.” What follows that is a lot of static in your head. “Did I really hear what I thought I heard?” This was not the way the conversation was scripted. Maybe I should start even further at the…
Irish Adventures – 10/30/2012
The morning was filled with breakfast and wandering around the wonders at the National Museum of Archeology. The gold jewelry, the history of the country is so wide and deep that the brain can barely comprehend. With findings back to 3300 BC and Vikings, kings, faeries, and mythology I don’t think a museum can even…
Irish Adventures – 10-29-2012
With luck and karma, I was able to get situated into my first class seat and ready for take off. Since I had the blessing of the travel gods and goddesses, I did not get stuck between Kansas City and Philadelphia as the hurricane came through. I landed in Dublin and caught a cab to…
Ireland Adventures – 10-28-2012
Life is a fascinating thing, one moment you are in stress working on your Bachelor’s degree, struggling to put together data analysis, developing a presentation and preparing for a trip to Ireland. All while watching your beloved companion of 11 years getting ready to move on to his next life time. A world filled with…
Alaska – 09-30-2012 – Looking Back
Bucket lists are an interesting quandary, they are filled with expectations and dreams. But, can anything live up to the a dream? I watched Fellowship of the Ring this weekend and am reminded about what happens when you step out your door. You change, you grow, you hopefully become more and not less than you…
Alaska – 09-15-2012
The morning arrives and time for breakfast and to leave the ship. I will not miss my time aboard nor will I look back at it with nostalgia. However, I was where I needed to be at that place and time. I met people, I touched people and people touched me back. I became more…
Alaska – 09-14-2012
Sitting in the lounge drinking water and live as I catch up on photo editing. Last night we moved down to the Misty Fjords where the sheer granite walls with the trees clinging to the crevices have mists streaming through them. The sun and the blue sky is barely peeking through to add interest to…
Alaska – 09-13-2012 – Alaskan Adventures
There comes a time when you just need to admit that a trip is cursed, I am officially at that point. Yesterday was spent travelling up the narrows to Wrangell where the flightseeing and fishing were cancelled as the weather was atrocious and the rivers were running too hard to fish in. I wanted some…
Alaska – 09-11-2012 – Alaskan Adventures and mischievous otter people.
Alaska was meant to be the small trip of the two this year. Ireland the larger one. However, as I was putting together the itineraries more and more time was devoted to the Alaskan itinerary over the Ireland one. I believe this was due to the fact I wanted to focus Ireland on the dream…
Alaska – 09-10-2012 – Day 3 – Alaskan Adventure
What a wonderful day today, I woke up and had an excellent morning of yoga with Chella. The captain Danno even joined us for the morning stretch. I can’t use enough flowery overly gratuitous words to properly cover the wonder of doing yoga outside in 40 degree weather with the mists shrouding the mountains and…