cool adventures

May 2020

When life gives you a pandemic, make tamales

When we lived in Sonoma county, there was a place in Petaluma that made black bean tamales and I’d buy them at the Whole Foods in Santa Rosa. They were […]

April 2020

What would our ancestors say?

May 6 was our 56th day of isolation and, while most people’s quarantine time is slightly less, people have had it with isolating. Gone are the #stayathome pleas of the […]

April 2020

Spring arrived

Spring has arrived. The flowers are blooming and the birds are chirping. The fishing boats are once again heading out each day and the huge row of lobster traps that […]

April 2020

Normalizing by doing what is normal

The last week flew by primarily because I got back to doing what I did the majority of the time before the pandemic started. Sure, we didn’t go to any […]

April 2020

From our couch, we can see a groundhog that lives in the field between our apartment and the ocean. We see him come out of the ground and walk around very close to his home a few times a week. Gee, who does that sound like?

March 2020

Will life go back to normal after the coronavirus pandemic?

When confronted with a challenging situation, my mother would almost […]

March 2020

We escaped

On Saturday, 21 March at 8:30 AM we escaped. It was a little chilly and kind of grey this morning. Drinking coffee and looking out at the ocean, we noted […]

March 2020

Flattening the Curve

While there were several contenders for week one’s most-used phrase – social distancing, self-isolating, stay the [insert your favorite term] home – flattening the curve is essentially what it is […]

March 2020

We've always been early adopters

So, why did we enter into self-imposed isolation on 12 March 2020 before it was suggested or required for people with no symptoms or exposure? We knew it was going […]

March 2020

Isolation: the beginning

We were still living in Boston a few blocks from Fenway Park when the Corona virus outbreak began. We’d moved to Boston when we came back from living in Europe […]

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Boston Red Sox Winter Weekend: What’s it really like?

For the past few years, before the Red Sox have […]

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Christmas in Athens, Greece

After visiting so many wonderful places over the last year on the road, we wanted to return to one of our very favorites for the holidays – Athens. Greece in […]

Canada

A Niagara Falls getaway

Say “Niagara Falls” and thoughts instantly turn to the massive, majestic natural wonder that is one of the world’s most famous waterfalls. But, Niagara Falls is actually a region with three […]

Canada

Toronto: Bargains, baseball and blue skies

We originally planned to spend the month of September in Toronto and had booked and paid for a fabulous apartment between Queen Street West and King Street West back in […]

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10 things every Airbnb needs

Living on the road full time so much over the past few years, we spent 227 days in Airbnb apartments in nine countries and some have been great, some okay, […]

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August in Montreal

What’s Montreal like in August? Rainy, breezy, muggy, sunny, cloudy … and that’s all before lunch. Weather fluctuations aside, Montreal is beautiful in August, with average daytime temperatures peaking at […]