So here I was, in late December, headed to an Eagle river rafting trip in a small town in Washington State USA. I decided to drive all the way so that I could take in amazing sights through the mountains, stopping whenever I chose. The weather turned horrid and the river rafting trip was out of the question. I would jeopardize my gear in pouring torrential rain. I was heartbroken in the change of plan. To my surprise, a friend who lives in Gardiner, Montana said turn tha

I have learned something about myself. I lived in Florida for 26 years thinking "paradise". Then a trip to Bora Bora and Tahiti changed all of that. I came back and Florida was no longer my dream place. Moving back to the frozen north and those first few winters, I thought I had lost my mind. What can you do in the winter in -20 below zero weather with snow everywhere you look? Someone mentioned I should travel to Red Wing, MN USA one winter. Red Wing, home of the famo

Kirkman's Kamp, Mpumalanga, South Africa and therapy for my soul. There I was, in dire need for a drastic change in my life. I had been checking off bucket list items and Africa was next on my list! Flying from Dulles Airport in the US and landing in Johannesburg, South Africa with one more small flight, I found myself just as I had dreamed! It was a remake of the movie "Out of Africa". The moment we arrived, I could see monkeys jumping from tree to tree. Leopard trac