To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde

As I mentioned last week, our family met up in the Smoky Mountains for the Fourth of July weekend. We rented a lovely cabin and enjoyed family time together. Hiking for Everyone One of the activities that we all wanted to participate in was hiking. My oldest daughter and her husband are avid hikers. They’ve […]

“Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world to a world that is yet to be discovered.” —Guy de Maupassant

My daughter and I traveled to San Francisco, California in late February of this year. We went to Stitches West, had dinner with my nephew, and saw several tourist sites. When we got back we started planning our next trip – a visit to another daughter in the Washington, DC area. In the news, there […]