Hey its Lucia- I'm leaving in 2 weeks, but we are already starting to pack! I am so excited for all the things we will do. Please log on to this blog every week or so to find out what I'm doing... ... and send me questions and comments - lucia [View Full Entry]

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Getting ready for an adventure is a very exciting process. Packing, I believe, is an art form. My gadget/wires bag has gotten bigger, but my pictures have gotten better. Cross my fingers no late night or even worse, morning of, packing. [View Full Entry]

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25th-28th September So to our fist experience of bus travel in the USA, we arrived at the bus station an hour before scheduled departure time, found the check in desk only to be told our reference number was an old one, but no worries it would still work! However the lady bluntly told us that the bus schedule had changed, we asked when the next bus was and luckily for us it was half an earlier. Relieved we set off to find the gate which was right next to the one for New York, this proved to be a little confusing [View Full Entry]

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I was really lucky to get invited to stay with Ryan and his family at their holiday home in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Ryan drove up on the 26 of June, and I came in his car - as we were leaving early. I had to be in New York on the 28 of June to fly back to Amsterdam. He didn’t mind only going for one day. The ride up there was pretty nice. Actually I really enjoyed New Hampshire, from the surrounding nature and the people who lived there. They were really friendly. When we got there we checked into [View Full Entry]

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The next day the 24 of June I went for a bike ride with Matt (Ryan’s younger brother) and his good friend Justo through the old rail road trail nearby their house in Colchester Connecticut. It was a really nice ride and kind of reminded me of riding through the Kentlyn bush or something like that back home. After getting home me and Ryan headed to the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. We got special passes that gave us a bit of discount from the library. The aquarium was pretty neat, quite similar to the Sydney aquarium - where you could [View Full Entry]

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Bob and I spent two weeks in Mystic in July, minding the grandchildren for 8 of those days -- all by ourselves. We then recuperated for the remainder of the second week plus Bob tried to finish up making some improvement to the Bigfoot RV. We'd had to leave for Connecticut before all the work had been done. Then we spent a couple of days with one of his sisters near Reading, PA and then home. Our two kitties, Jasmine and Becky, were a delight on the trip, just great travelers. I'm understanding better and better why older people get pets, [View Full Entry]

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I am finding it hard to believe that the day is finally here and that I am heading off on my trip. After so long thinking about this, planning, changing, contemplating, researching and fantasizing, I am finally going. This first blog entry will be different from the others. I promise that in future missives from the back of beyond, I will not be as introspective. Part of the reason for this note is to try to explain why I am doing what I am doing to those people that I haven’t had a chance to talk through all my thought process [View Full Entry]

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Very cool day today. I looked through an old Frommer's travel guide for New England my mom picked up on one of her many yard sale jaunts, and found some local attractions that I didn't even know existed. So, we spent today visiting a couple sites located in nearby towns. First up, we headed out to the Sharpe Hill Vineyard in Pomfret, CT for some wine tasting and a walk through their grounds. Their tasting was quite reasonable...$5 per person to taste 5 of their wines, $10 to taste all 12. As it was early afternoon and we had another stop, [View Full Entry]

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Our 2nd stop today was Roseland Cottage in Woodstock, CT. Roseland Cottage was built in 1846, as we learned on the tour provided by Gloria, a Historic New England tour guide, by Henry Chandler Bowen. Bowen was born in Woodstock and then headed to New York to make his gajillions and hob-nob with politicians. He was quite involved with the Abolitionist movement and apparently used his clout and $$ to help Lincoln in his presidential bid. As a thank you, Lincoln assigned him the post of Tax Collector in New York. Anyway, he built this "cottage" in Woodstock so he could [View Full Entry]

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So, the KooKoo Review...it just happened. I thought we were going to the supermarket, but mom had other plans. She claims to have told me, but I'm skeptical. Anyway, on our way to a "car cruise" (which is not where you go to pick up hot guys in even hotter cars) I received a message from my cousin, Beth (who lives in the same town as my mom) asking if we wanted to meet up in a park downtown for a children's concert. Now, let me rewind a moment, mom had presented me this option earlier in the day and anyone [View Full Entry]

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