It's 4am here in California, wide awake. Just want to jot a few notes here about how safe I felt in Istanbul and Turkey in general. We were with our new family the rest of the trip, my DIL's parents, brother and friends. We never opened our wallet, they were so generous and sweet. Right … Continue reading Leaving Istanbul & the flight
A full day of touring Istanbul, mostly just getting to & from places for the tours. After breakfast, we headed via metro to the old city Mosques. It's about a mile just to get to the metro from here, my steps have been about 10-20k a day throughout this trip. I'll put the link to … Continue reading Istanbul/Constantinople
On our way to Istanbul by way of Marseille. We took the train from Nice to Marseille, a sailing town which had thousands of boats and sailboats all crammed together. They have one long dock, the boats are all docked stern first then it looks like an underwater mooring line you pick up? At first … Continue reading Marseille.fr
Took a little bit of a tumble in Monaco, not so bad I couldn't make it back on the bus & trains to get back to our apartment. It might limit my water time here with the scrape. We got here by the bullet train from Paris, about 6 hours of spectacular scenery. Our apartment … Continue reading Now for Nice & Monte Carlo
With no time to write, even though I was picturing myself sitting in a cafe in Paris writing this whole time. I'd also love to take credit for the featured image..don't ya' just hate it when you lug a nice camera around then someone not only shoots a better shot w/ a phone, then renders … Continue reading Paris
Driving up I-5, on my monthly pilgrimage to LA that I've done for almost 30 years, there was a car that hit the car in front of him and spun out 180 towards me for a head on. Somehow that didn't happen? I could see he had no control, it was total slow motion for … Continue reading Fuzzy Memories
The Fernando experience is just getting more frustrating. Last week I wrote about my rental car disaster in El Paso, they had the car in Mexico?? Here is the reply: Hi Helleren, Thank you for getting in touch about your booking with Avis in Ciudad Juarez, due to finish on 2019-07-27 15:00:00. We're sorry to … Continue reading Booking.com
This week was all about walking the dog and errands for my son. We did get a quick trip to White Sands, a place definitely worth seeing if there's a chance. Warning though, we went later in the afternoon for the sunset while it was still almost 100 degrees. There's picnic table shade, otherwise you … Continue reading All’s Well in Las Cruces & random mom thoughts
What an interesting travel day, a first time for this one. To get to El Paso, it was your usual 2 flight trip with no delays. Got the window seats both times, short flights. From Phoenix to El Paso the woman in the middle seat not only took both arm rests (which she should, sucky … Continue reading Just call me “Fernando”
The final day in Bend was spent leisurely going downtown for one last time, grabbing lunch/latte before heading out to Fly & Field Outfitters store for an afternoon sesh. The forecast for flying back was good, on Thursday there were still quite a few ominous clouds I was a little worried about. My mind in … Continue reading Fly fishing & the flight home
