Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. — Sam Keen It’s early September. The days are still sunny and hot and the sea and the pools still warm, but now, when I awake around 7:00am, it’s dark outside. The solar lanterns we’ve hung around our casita are still glowing brightly. […]
“Once you begin watching spiders, you haven’t time for much else.” — E.B. White Now that it’s hot, each morning I get out of bed when the sun first peeks over the horizon to water our garden plants. I’m naturally a morning person so I find this task pleasant: walking […]
“I don’t want to go to Heaven. None of my friends are there.” — Oscar Wilde On some mornings, if it isn’t too cold, I head to the port for an open water swim. No matter the day, there is almost always a group of elderly Spanish women already in […]
[Humans] need difficulties. They are necessary for health. — Carl Jung On a Tuesday in early December my husband and I decided to hike up Calpe. Calpe — or Calp, as it is spelled in Valenciano, is an enormous limestone rock that looms over the town of the same name. […]
“Don’t be put off by this review, it is challenging but rewarding, go prepared and once down safely you will sit with an aura of satisfaction and a reason to ask someone else to go get your drinks….” (SteveL801, Trip Advisor) Last month, my husband and I finally made it […]
Charm is a product of the unexpected. — Jose Marti Much of the charm and beauty of a given region lies in those small, out-of-the-way places that rarely appear in travel guides. Indeed, if you were to build a vacation around one of these spots, you’d likely be disappointed. Such […]
Don’t think. It complicates things. Just feel. And if it feels like home, then follow its path. — R.M. Drake The natural world plays a very big role in my feeling at home in the world. Getting to know the terrain, the vegetation, and the animals around me is critical […]
I don’t have a bucket list, but my bike list is a mile long — Anon. (By Tom Carter) I should have done my homework. That thought sprang from my head as profusely as the perspiration ran down my face. After twenty or so minutes of my unrelenting battle with […]
You can travel all around the world and back You can fly or sail or ride a railroad track But no matter where you go you’re gonna find That people have the same things on their minds Well, hello, hello brother, hello I said hello, hello, brother hello — Louis […]
(Post by Tom Carter) “Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.” — Humphry Davy For seven long weeks, I dreamed of riding. Aside from a […]