Category: Travel

  • We’re Still Here

    We’re Still Here

    Should I continue with the blog or not? It hasn’t been settled in my mind yet. I completed three years as President of the Maryland Continuing Care Residents Association, which freed up some time. We cruised to Iceland from Fort Lauderdale ending in Southampton, England, in June 2022. We also traveled to Minnesota to see…

  • National Portrait Gallery

    National Portrait Gallery

    A September Charlestown trip took me to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. I worked down the block from it in the 1990s. My colleagues and I would go for lunch and sit in the courtyard when the weather was nice. I was surprised to see that the courtyard is now covered and the…

  • Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Center

    Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Center

    Charlestown offers day trips to interesting places so we took advantage of one trip recently. The Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia is the companion facility to the Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC Two large hangars display thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde, and the Space Shuttle Discovery. Our neighbor,…

  • Canada and New England Cruise

    Canada and New England Cruise

    Travel Day We enjoyed a ten day cruise on the Caribbean Princess starting in Quebec City and ending in New York City from August 9 to August 19, 2019. It is now 2:12 and we are on Air Canada heading to Quebec City after an ordeal at the Toronto airport. We had a very long…

  • Florida Get-Away

    Florida Get-Away

    When we got word that my sister and brother-in-law were going to sell their Bonita Springs, FL home, we decided we needed to do one last visit. I was with my sister the day she saw it for the first time so it was fitting that we were there when the house went on the…

  • Beyond the Future

    Beyond the Future

    Living on the Edge was our reality for a week. We sailed on the new Celebrity Edge December 16 – 23. There were many new features from infinite verandas, art installations, a Magic Carpet cantilevered over the side of the ship, a high tech theater, and a smartphone app to manage the door lock, room…

  • Give Me A Break

    Give Me A Break

    October was too hectic for me with mostly NaCCRA business. I had two board meetings, a member meeting, and three days of staffing the NaCCRA booth at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting and Expo. I did lots of prep work to prepare for the meetings which required long hours of computer work. I don’t want to…

  • Another TransAtlantic Cruise

    Another TransAtlantic Cruise

    We enjoyed a 29-day cruise on the small Pacific Princess from November 23 to December 22. We had two days in Venice Italy before getting on the ship. The back-to-back cruise started in Venice with stops in Croatia, Greek islands, Italy, and ending in the port near Rome. We stayed on the ship to continue…