"Well, It's Another Beautiful Day in The Villages!" Those of us who live in HappyVille have heard that phrase a thousand times, but when we awoke to our first sunrise…
Our last group dinner was with our good friends Maryanne, Ann and Mark. We had a lot in common with them, because we had all lost a child. That's a tough…
In the mountains of Greece, especially on steep roads with hairpin turns, you see many small roadside shrines, or kandylakia, which may mark lives lost (particularly in auto accidents, which are common…
After our zero-dark-thirty reveille and a two hour drive to Piraeus, we boarded our slow Blue Star ferry for a 5 1/2 hour voyage to Mykonos. In spite of lack…
One of the interesting sights at Delphi was the Omphalos, Greek for navel, a four foot high hollow stone with a carving of a knotted net covering its surface. According to legend, Zeus…
Okay, international travel wasn't that hard when I was 25. Now it's a little tougher to fly seven time zones east and try to function normally on one hour's sleep in 24 hours. I…
While walking the puppies at a local recreation center, I came upon this advert for a mobile coffee canteen. It was reminiscent of the paintings that went on US bombers in…
While walking Rudy and Gretchen today at Sumter Landing, one very nice lady asked to pet them. We got to talking, and I found that Judy has a heart of gold. She rescues…
It's been a few days since the last blog... longer than I would have preferred, but our schedule since arriving home back in The Villages has been just a bit…