It’s Hot Out Here!

We escaped sultry St. Louis over a decade ago to move to sunny and seventies Southern California. We love it here. But this year, apparently, SoCal decided to remind us of what we escaped—a month of heat and humidity. Except now, we’re suffering through it without air conditioning, because sunny and seventies shouldn’t require a/c … Read more

North to Alaska

I don’t know if you remember that song. I’m sure it dates me. After last year’s exhausting trip to Egypt, we vowed to make our next one simple, so we booked a lovely small ship cruise around Alaska’s coastline. We foolishly thought it would be a short trip from here In California. Scratch that. No … Read more