I love the Dr. Seuss book, "Oh, the Places You'll Go." There are so many situations in life when lines from that book are encouraging. So, since I had not yet figured out how to post pics to this blog, I chose a picture of one of my favorite lines to practice with in this early morning post. And, since today is Valentine's Day, I tossed another one in of Aaron and I skiing on Valentine's Day many moons ago. Guess we tend to travel on this weekend! Our flight from San Francisco to New Zealand leaves tonight at 7:45. We've enjoyed a wonderful few days relaxing here in sunny, warm Northern California. I can't believe we are leaving tonight! Doesn't seem real. Trying to stretch out and rest this morning since tonight we will be ... read more

Many people have asked us why we have chosen to travel to New Zealand. Well, New Zealand was added to our bucket list on Thanksgiving 2010. We were still living in California at that time. Grandma Marj's dementia/alzheimers was advancing, and we knew that taking her to Indiana with us for Christmas wasn't going to be possible. So, we stayed in California for Thanksgiving that year, and took her to spend the day with her long-time friends Frank and Carol Walsh. Also at the Thanksgiving Dinner that day were Frank and Carol's relatives who were in the process of moving back to California after spending several years living in New Zealand. At that point, we had never really given any thought to ever traveling to New Zealand. It simply hadn't ever come up. But, after spending ... read more