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Time Travel: Cape Cod Style
Twenty years, at least, is the length of time this part of Massachusetts has been on my radar. A bucket list item. The trouble with bucket lists is that with anticipation like that, it’s hard to separate out expectations. It’s not that Boston and Cape Cod are “less than” or “more than” I expected. Just […]
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Two cell phones (that will stop working tomorrow), one iPad (with a big crack in the screen), one tablet, three kindles, three ipods (one dead), a Nintendo 3DS (child bored of it though since he’s played the same three games for three months), and half a computer (with no audio, another one got dropped, and the third is “frozen”)
I didn’t share this, but while in the Netherlands in July (now I’m in Holland), the d ,m, and r keys stopped working on my computer. My blog was going to be about how hard it was to be creative when one is limited by using no words that had those letters in them. You […]
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So we got on bikes and saw things from a different perspective…
The Netherlands is famous the world over for its cycling citizens. It is very cycling oriented. Slim, fit-looking 60 and 70 year olds on bikes is a common sight that my husband is not always graciously yielding to. Don’t get me wrong, he DOES yield…just not graciously. Infrastructure for bikes is better than for cars…separate […]
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The Netherlands are peaceful…except for traveling Canadians…
The Netherlands is beautiful. The reality of the countryside painted by the Dutch Masters is as peaceful and bucolic as their paintings suggest. To be in the Dutch countryside is rural. For a North American this is a rare experience. We are cavalier about space because we have a lot of it. The parts […]
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