Beebe
Lynn Beebe Joined: January 27th 2006
Logged in: February 13th 2012
Logged in: February 13th 2012
I was a primary teacher in a K-12 alternative school. In 2006, I took a leave for four months, travelling through Central America. I visited schools and studied Spanish along with being a tourist. My class followed my travels through this blog. I have continued to use this blog to keep friends, family and my students connected to my travels, recently in Mexico and now Kenya!
2009
I am now retired and my husband and I hope to do even more traveling! I am volunteering in an after-school program on the Indian reservation where we live and at the local art museum along with gardening, kayaking, biking, and cooking....We spent a month in Argentina in the winter of 2009.
Fall 2009
We are now ready to depart on a trip to Italy. We hope to spend a month or so seeing Rome, Venice, Florence, Cinque Terre and the area around Naples.
Fall 2010
We are going back to Italy this fall, hoping to see more of the smaller towns and villages.
Winter 2010-2011
We spent three weeks in the Yucatan, and then took a road trip to California and back.
Travel Blog Posts
Washington State in the distance
Our last hotel stay of this trip was in Burns, Oregon on Sunday night.....Bill is like a horse that can smell the home stable, and he decided not only to drive through from Burns to Seattle, but to pick up our beloved Betty, (thank you for such great care, Vicki and Geoff!) and then drive the rest of the way home. We got home around 10:00 pm, to a warm house (Thank you Diane, for turning on the heat!) and below freezing temperatures outside. We started our return trip with a drive from Phoenix to Las Vegas, just ahead of the bad weather (snow in Flagstaff; rain in Phoenix). We stopped by the Hoover Dam on the way (I'd forgotten I'd already been there, but at least we got a view of the new bridge we ... read more
Saguaro in the National Park
We've had a wonderful eight days in this delightful fake summer weather! It sprinkled the first day we were here, but the rest of the time (except for our last day...) has been warm (75 or so) and sunny. We have explored Walter and Cindy's neighborhood (a historic party of Phoenix), had Thanksgiving with Walter's family, climbed a local mountain with my friend Mary, shopped at Goodwill, driven to Tucson where we hiked and took scenic drives, visited Taliesen West and the Phoenix Art Museum, and had dinner with a wonderful family I met while teaching at Ardmore..... Phoenix has many interesting and historic neighborhoods, but it's still too big and spawling for me.... And I can't get accustomed to seeing the holiday decorations and lights in the middle of fake summer! It's just not right.... ... read more
The snow is still at the "pretty" stage
Day One: Seattle to La Grande, Oregon We left in sunshine, and hoped that the the prediction of light snow across the eastern part of Washington and Oregon would be correct, or even better, wrong, and that we would have a sunny drive. Not to be.... After a difficult day of snow, icy roads, being stuck on a pass with hundreds of trucks, chaining up, unchaining and getting a cable caught in the axel....(picture poor Bill on his back under the car, lying in dirty slush with giant semis rushing by at dusk...), we arrived in La Grande and found a hotel. We walked in a light snow to a restaurant filled with high school kids dressed up for the Harvest Ball.....nice ending to a hard day! Day Two La Grande to Winnemucca, Nevada We woke ... read more
Just noticed that the photos for each blog are WAY down the page, past my profile and some ads.......hope you all saw them!... read more
Bento Box Lunch
Saturday we all slept in, and then Wendy and Matt went to buy Wendy a new bike. It's beautiful: a pink Giant in an extra small! We then rode about twenty minutes to an organic "all you can eat" buffet restaurant for lunch (Thank you, Wendy!). The next stop was Hard Off, a thrift store chain. It was fun for the women, not so much for the men......Whenever anyone comes into the store, the staff makes a loud bleating sound. Apparently, this is common in shops?! Sunday we got up at 5:00 am and met Matt at the base gate on our bikes. We put them in the outdoor rec van and drove about 45 minutes to the Tama Hills Recreation Area. This was a Japanese munitions storage area during WWII, and has been in American ... read more
Moby Carp
We left early on Thursday morning for Kamakura by train. We arrived in Kamakura after about two hours and three transfers.....It was a beautiful day...sunny and warm, but not too hot. We walked from temple to temple, along with crowds of school kids, older Japanese tourists and a very few "gaijin" (foreigners). We have seen so few non-Japanese here (except for on the base of course), that it almost feels like Kenya, without the scaring of small children! We went all day Friday without seeing one foreigner, until we got near to Matt's apartment. The roads were lined with shops and restaurants, but the temple grounds were peaceful and immense, with many old trees. The exception was the Shinto Temple we visited, where the crowds were noisy and and there were stands inside the grounds selling ... read more
Tama River, near where we had lunch
Today was going to be an easy day after our mountain ride yesterday....but the really easy ride and hike Matt proposed sounded much too easy, so I asked to add to the itinerary... We started out with a ride to the river and then a hike on trail to a shrine on the top of a small mountain. After we hiked down, we wandered around the exterior of a museum that had some older buildings near it. Then Matt took us on a short cut that involved carrying our bikes down a trail, crossing part of the river on foot, and biking through some mud. We came out at a golf course below the shrine, and headed out through the city, up the Tama River. We were on a busy road for most of the ride: ... read more
Flesh meets road
Today was to be our long bike ride into the mountains that ring the Kanda Plain and Tokyo. The day began with some clouds, but a promise of sun. It was in the 70's.... We started out around 10:00 am and rode about 45 minutes through the city of Fussa (part of Tokyo) and into the hills. We stopped at a 7-11 for snacks and some lunch items to bring with us up the mountain. As we left the more urban streets and started to gain elevation, congestion turned to sawmills, small farms and forests. The road was was a 12% grade for the first steep part of the ride, and I ended up walking near the end of this section, and also walked the 15% grade that followed. It then flattened out a bit and ... read more
Kitsune, or Fox Shrine
We rented our bikes from Matt's shop today, and headed off on our own to the Tama River Trail. The biggest problem is remembering that one drives/rides on the left here! The intersections are the hardest for me...I look each way about five times, it seems! The trail is fantastic: well paved, wide, flat....and it follows close to the river through parks and more wild areas. There are walkers, joggers, and cyclists of all ages. Along the edge of the trail are residential and manufacturing areas, along with a few small farms. We rode about 13 kilometers towards downtown and then back. It was so good to be able to cover longer distances and not have sore feet/knees, as I do when I walk now.... One the way back, we visited a Shinto temple with the ... read more
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