picking up where I left off

Um, okay. So I think it’s been established that I suck at keeping up here. Thank you for coming back. My last post was at the beginning of the year, and now it’s already March. Sigh. Really so much has transpired in these fledgling days of 2024, mostly Dixon-related. But first let’s go back, shall…

Trip to Yellowstone – part 4 (Monday & Tuesday, 10/30-31)

Checkout from our West Yellowstone AirBnB was at 10 am, but a couple of us were up early and spent the early morning reading and drinking coffee (guess who?) But soon enough, it was time to get the check-out items completed. Thankfully, this house’s list wasn’t too bad – run the dishwasher, take out the…

Trip to Yellowstone – part 3 (Sunday, 10/29)

Since we’d gotten up early the day before, we took it a bit easier on Sunday. The plan was to go out to breakfast then head to the park. We had our sights set on a pancake house that was nearby the house. MT thought he’d seen a sign in the window about it being…

Trip to Yellowstone – part 2 (Saturday, 10/28)

The plan was to leave early in order to get to the park either at sunrise or shortly thereafter. Sandy and I got up early and (she) made coffee and eggs. I preheated the oven and put the biscuits in. Breakfast was ready at 7 am, and everyone generally complied with our plan to head…

Trip to Yellowstone – part 1 (Thursday & Friday)

So as it so happened, less than a week after I returned from Northern California, I once again found myself at the Long Beach airport, this time accompanied by my mom, as we were headed to Salt Lake City. This trip had been planned since early July, before my uncle had died. My cousin and…

trip to Dixon CA

Pretty quickly, it became clear that actions needed to happen to find some resolutions for our aunt Mary. So we took action. Sandy & I planned a trip up to Dixon to take Mary to the doctor for a few reasons, one being to get her doctor up to date, find out the latest on…

Vacation – Days 4-6 in Utah (and some devastating news)

Wednesday Wednesday was a WFH day for Sandy, and she planned to take a half day, so we resumed our positions at the dining room table and got our work on. After we were done, it was time to go to lunch. We decided on Delice French Bakery & Cafe. We decided to go halfsies…

Days 13-14 (so far): Barcelona, Barcelona > Paris > LAX

Hello from my flight to LAX! It’s 7:49 pm where I left Paris. It’s 10:50 am where I’m going to land in LAX. It’s so hard to manage your time when you’re flying west. Do you sleep now or not? Do you act like it’s the time where you flew from or where you’re going?…

Days 11-12: Barcelona

I was too tuckered out to write last night, so here’s a recap of the last two days. Day 11 Sandy & I have enjoyed our fairly early morning walks around the Gothic Quarter areas so we did it again. This time we stopped first at La Boqueria and had another look around. We bought…

Day 10: Barcelona

Sandy and I set out again fairly early this morning to get some breakfast. We ended up making kind of a large circle around the Gothic Quarter. We finally stopped at a little corner cafe next to the Santa Maria del Pi church called Giovanni where we had an amazing croissant and a so-so cafe…