It’s All Maya!

Maya Muses:  And the French think that the people in Belgium don’t know how to let their hair down and have a good time!

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First on Thursday evening an Austrian tour bus (some reports say it was a German tour bus) fell into the Seine! Thank goodness no one was in the bus that sunk within a matter of minutes.

Maya Muses:  It reminds me somewhat of our boating accident last year. Something I would rather forget!
Then Saturday afternoon a […]

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I know, I know, Hemingway was speaking figuratively when he spoke about Paris being a moveable feast, but for the past month since arriving back in France it has literally been a moveable feast!  We have done nothing but travel  throughout France eating, drinking, and socializing with family and friends.

We arrived in Paris and left […]

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(School Days - Mom, middle row, far left.)
My mom is an extraordinary woman who had a difficult life as a young child and some of her earliest memories are those that sound like a Stephen King novel turned into a horror movie.  Painful memories that anyone would want to forget, so I won’t go into […]

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Mode of transportation in DC.
The saying, “when it rains, it pours” is true, but have you noticed that the opposite is also true?  When all the planets are aligned and everything just falls into place, it’s like the gods are all smiling down upon you.  Well that’s exactly how our trip to DC was.  Everywhere […]

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This is what we left behind….

This is what greeted us!
We left El Paso with warm weather and sunny skies and landed in Pittsburgh where a blizzard was brewing!  As a matter of fact, all flights into Pittsburgh were cancelled; only ours and two others, were the only flights that landed on an icy runway.  When […]

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El Paso:  I love El Paso.  It’s a place where you can breath because of the vast openness of the desert, where the stars are as big as ripe apples and you feel that you can just reach out and pluck one from the sky.  I see the beauty that surrounds this border town, but […]

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Driving over the Golden Gate Bridge to San Francisco.
I’ve fallen behind on my travel updates, but I did want to post some final photos of San Francisco because when you have eleven people (especially from the same family) traveling together and at the end of the the trip, you have eleven people still talking to […]

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Of course we couldn’t go to San Francisco and not head up to Sonoma and Napa Valley!  The weather wasn’t cooperating, but the  countryside is so beautiful there.  In any case, we had our minds set on drinking wine!  Years ago when I was living in Marin County, a friend and I use to head […]

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6 of us went to New York City.
8 of us flew to Texas.
10 of us traveled to Phoenix.
6 of us continued on to Las Vegas.
So when the decision was made to fly to San Francisco, you know it wasn’t going to be just Patrick and I getting on that plane!  Nope, there were eleven of […]

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