Dog scares seagulls scare girl scares seagulls excites dog
Chris and I ran up and down a beach throwing the rugby ball back and forth. After tiring ourselves out, we collapsed on the sand and I took a semi-nap o...
Category: INSPIRATIONS
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The oldest city in the U.S., a college, a fort, and another fort
> We drove down a barrier island to a place that really didn’t feel like America. St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is the oldest port in the U.S. ...
The Underbelly of Ubiquity
The days of my pumpkin spiced lattes are dwindling. The plump pumpkins that lined the grocers’ windows have been replaced with poignant poinsettias and will soo...
>”Don’t Feed the Alligators.”
What a welcoming sign What an interesting area. As I drove through Seminole Park, I felt like Christopher Reeves felt in “Somewhere in Time” when he crossed fro...
Beach this Morning
Morning sun beams snuck between illuminated clouds and made the water and the mist bright white. I could not see more than 200 yards down the stretch because of...
Temporarily Floridian
> Florida is warm and humid. Not that I expected it to be any different. Glad it’s not hurricane season. Jaguars football game last week. Woohoo. Cast...
Dormant Sugar Maples to Vivacious Palm Trees
Chris and I fell asleep to the Christmas-tree-topper Chrysler building standing outside Brian’s window at 37th and Lexington. I have labeled his 8...
Zombies Perform Thriller in Market Square
>Every Halloween, a parade of wowingly costumed people marches through old downtown Portsmouth. Seriously, these costumes are ridiculous and metic...
Nearly November
I have lived in Portsmouth since June. It is nearly November. And I am still enchanted with this place. It’s all brick and wood and books. Old bridges, ol...
So my neighbor is a lobsterman.
>So last night, Iwas anticipating cooking chicken when the door bell rang. It was our lobsterman neighbor, Jeff, holding two live lobsters that he had caught...
rainy rucky rugby and the american revolution
>And today, Chris played a rugby game in Boston. Do you know the history of rugby? It started in a soccer match at Rugby Boarding School in England in 1823. ...
Harvest Festival and other festivities
> Saturday Chris and I and two of our New Yorker friends went to a Harvest Festival in Old York Village. People get so much more into the seasons up here- it...
mud on the tires
We drove the truck down a dirty dirt/rock road in the mountains for several miles at 40 mins till dusk. We were feeling pretty darn adventurous. We parked by a ...
rock climbing>hiking>log cabin
>I top rope climbed a 35 ft. rock! We drove down this backwood, potholed, dirt road then hiked a big hill to this sweet wall, anchored in, and climbed a few ...
October II: Pumpkin
I had to buy pumpkins. So I stopped at a 300 year old farm-orchard called Emery and poured myself a $.50 cider then scouted the patch. This is a bonified pumpki...
October I
I climbed an aspen tree. The sun shone through the bright yellow leaves and made me feel like Glinda in the middle of a glowing bubble. My favorites are the sug...
Expeditionary visit with mom
>1) We went to the Tulluride by the Sea film festival at thein Portsmouth. Neat old theater. We saw Coco Avant Chanel, a very good indep. French film starrin...
Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park
>A fellow Aggie-Coast Guard wife-temp. Mainer and I drove to Bar Harbor (adorable) and Acadia (wowingly georgeous) for a day trip. Acadia is where those ninc...
Nubble Lighthouse
>Earlier today, when I was “returning” from York School Dept, I accidentally turned north instead of south. oops. I figured this out when i saw N...
Today, I saw 5 whales and 4 people throw up.
>I went whale watching in the Gulf of Maine with the youth group today! He maketh me chaperon fun youth trips;He leadeth me upon not-so-still waters.Yea, tho...
Food, Music and History
I got in from my long trip at 9pm. It was actually a little cold here in Maine. I had to to put on a cardigan and my pretty purple knee length light coat with a...
September
>I leaned back and sighed to myself “aaaa last plane ride for 4 mos” and smiled. Then i realized that there’s no one waiting for me this ti...
Gate D49 to Hispaniola
>We didn’t really do a whole lot of expewhateveryoucallthems. We mostly lounged around the resort and stared at each other. haha. Chris said he didn...
Here to there to the other there
I tallied things up on the plane. I have been on 9 airplane-involving trips in the past 8 months: NYC third date-Dec/Jan Proposal in ME-Feb CO ski trip-March ho...
Motorcycle trip winds down
and down and down and down and then back up and up and up and up the Bear Tooth Highway. This road was ridiculous! We zigzagged like 4-5 laps up the side of the...
Motorcycling Post-Canada
>This morning, we drove through Glacier Natl Park of the U.S. So I got to compare ours to Canada’s. haha. as for number and size of glaciers, Canada wi...
Motorcycling in CANADA
> We crossed the border into Oliver Valley, British Columbia. A sign said that the valley is “the wine capital of Canada.” It went on for miles a...
From Above
Flying to Oregon, we flew over the Great Salt Lake and the salt flats. It was one of the funniest looking things I have ever seen. I wrote that “The water...
Panarama from a motorcycle
Motorcycling through Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alberta, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Riding on a motorcycle is a ...
Salem means Peace.
>heading back from Boston, I drove through good ole Salem, Mass. There, I dropped by the House Seven Gables (Hawthorne novel) among other things and statues....