Melbourne is known for its encouragement of street art. Throughout the city you can find impressive murals and graffiti-covered alleyways. The artwork is continually updated and the smell of spray…

We finally got overseas again! Well, I actually went to India for work in October of 2022, but this was our first overseas vacation since 2018. We picked Melbourne, Australia,…

For our 23rd anniversary, and our second during the pandemic, Kim and I decided to travel east to the recreation area of Lake Chelan. Popular in the summertime for what…

We timed our visit to India to coincide with the annual company party. I also spent 7 working days in the office meeting with all of my colleagues that I…

I returned to India three years later for another work visit. A little wiser this time, I booked extra rest days. And I brought my boss. We arrived at the…

The first week of November we traveled back to Arizona to visit friends and family. On two different days we ventured into the Papago Park area. The first time was…

For our last morning in Bend we drove south to the Newberry National Volcanic Monument. We wanted to visit the vast lava fields created during a major eruption some 7,000…

Our first few days in Bend were sunny and warm, but by the afternoon of day three the skies were grey and snowflakes were falling. We spent much of the…

Our first day trip out of Bend was directly south to Crater Lake National Park. Created by the collapse of a large volcano some 7,000 years ago, the lake is…

When we moved to our current address some eight years ago, we didn’t have enough extra budget to remodel the kitchen along with the rest of house. This summer we…