Returning to Hawaii

Returning to Hawaii

We really love Hawaii. Since 2014 when I came here to do a convention called Hawaiicon, I try to visit every year or so. It turns out Glenn, my husband since 2022, has also been a fan of the Big Island, and a frequent visitor. Sometimes the parallels in our lives...
Traveling with My “Person”

Traveling with My “Person”

Would I be traveling like this if I didn’t have a partner?  I cannot believe how lucky I am to have this life partner in my husband. Glenn and I met in 1975. I was 17 and he was 18, and we had both started at the drama department at Carnegie-Mellon University. Over...
Prepping for an Extended Trip

Prepping for an Extended Trip

Now on the other side of my hip replacement (Jan 2nd), Glenn and I can finally start to plan on leaving the country again. My husband and I sold the house in April 2022, got rid of SOOO much stuff, and put the rest into storage. We knew we wanted to travel as much as...
Travel Journaling for Every Hobbit

Travel Journaling for Every Hobbit

The best trips continue long after we’ve returned home: in memory, in the stories we tell, and in the ways we re-orient our lives. But how do you catch in words the light above the Pacific, an evening with new friends at a fantastic pub, or the way the Hawaiian...
Our Quest Travel Adventures – Petra Part 2

Our Quest Travel Adventures – Petra Part 2

You know a trip was good if you feel even better about it later. We loved Petra, but I was also recovering a bit from Egypt. We had just gotten off a week on a live aboard dive boat on the Red Sea. THAT was amazing, and I am danged proud of us being the elders on the...
Quest Retreats: My Retreat Decision Process

Quest Retreats: My Retreat Decision Process

People ask me all the time “How do you decide your next Quest?” It’s actually really easy: I have to have a certain feeling in my body. My mind has very little to do with it. I can always figure things out. Might take me some time, Africa took 6 years from...

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