Category: travel

  • Sun, Sea and Cyprus

    Sun, Sea and Cyprus

    Limassol is the second-largest city in Cyprus and the first place we set foot in the island country. Cyprus is north of Egypt, just south of Turkey and not very far west of Lebanon and Syria, so you can imagine how excited Bill and I were to be exploring this part of the world. In the…

  • A Quick Bite of Turkey? Delicious!

    A Quick Bite of Turkey? Delicious!

    Just one day in Turkey took me farther than I’d ever been from home. On top of that, after our visit to the town of Alanya—a pretty resort area also known as the “Turkish Riviera”—Bill and I now can say we’ve been on the Asia part of the world map. It happened on the third…

  • Rhodes to Joy

    Rhodes to Joy

    Funny thing about the Greek island of Rhodes: Among its many claims to fame is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Only that Wonder hasn’t existed since the year 225 BC. Sure, I’d heard of the Colossus of Rhodes, but I didn’t realize it’s been gone for 2,250 years. You’d have to…

  • It Started in Athens

    It Started in Athens

    Bill and I took the trip of a lifetime in May. It covered a lot of celebrating: (1) his milestone birthday, (2) our 30th anniversary and (3) my birthday–with all of those made even more special because of some health challenges Bill overcame to enable us to travel. And did we ever! While we’re not…

  • What a Good Time for the First Time in a Long Time

    What a Good Time for the First Time in a Long Time

    My family hadn’t taken a vacation trip together in years. We made up for it in September 2023 with a cruise from New York City along the coast of eastern Canada.