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Kilauea Lower East Rift Zone Fissure 8

August 6, 2018 By Deirdre

I know a lot of you know I love my volcanoes, though I don’t love the human trauma they cause. Lately, I’ve been watching the developments in Fissure 8, which first took over half of Leilani Estates and then pressed onward to the sea, taking out several hundred more homes in the process. In the […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: hawaii, volcanoes

Dubrovnik’s Old City

June 26, 2015 By Deirdre

Dubrovnik, Old City, photo by Rick Moen

You can usually tell the difference between Rick photos and Deirdre photos: mine only rarely have people in them. In fact, it’s hard for me to remember to actually take photos of Rick or myself. Or anyone. I’m just so conditioned to waiting for that people-free shot, which means I usually don’t have photos of […]

Filed Under: Photography, Travel Tagged With: croatia, dubrovnik, europe, travel

Cruise Ships: Size Trends

June 12, 2015 By Deirdre

Off the coast of Alghero, Sardinia

When I first sailed on a cruise ship in the late 80s, a 39,000 ton ship was rather large. The first ship I sailed on, the Starship Oceanic was originally designed in 1965 as a transatlantic ship and was short by modern standards: 782 feet long. The contemporary, and much larger, transatlantic ship, Cunard’s QE2 […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: cruise ships, cruises

A Clean Desktop

December 22, 2014 By Deirdre

Strawberry Field

Desktop Zero. (Have to show off that fabulous Christmas wallpaper!) #GTD #InboxZero pic.twitter.com/3pQPRmBEto — Colter Reed (@ColterReed) December 22, 2014 So Colter Reed shamed me into cleaning up my own desktop, which had 252 items on it, mostly dragged items or stuff I wanted to upload to my blog (and have done so). Voila! My […]

Filed Under: Music, Travel Tagged With: beatles, organization, travel

100 Countries (and Territories)!

November 10, 2014 By Deirdre

As of today, I’ve completed one of my travel life goals: to visit 100 countries and territories from the Traveler’s Century Club list. In short, you can’t join the club as a full member until you’ve been to 100. Sure, they are liberal in what they count (their list totals 324 countries and territories, where […]

Filed Under: Important Things, Travel Tagged With: goals, travel

Upcoming Travel, Hotel Envy Edition

October 29, 2014 By Deirdre

So, remember last month when I said I was at 97 countries after an ill-advised tromping through the Vatican museums? We’re heading to the Caribbean on Friday, and I’ll cross the 100-country mark. A few years ago, I listed nine hotels from my “hotel envy” list. I used to work in the luxury hotel industry, […]

Filed Under: Hotels, Travel Tagged With: travel

Had an Injury, Going to the Doc

September 29, 2014 By Deirdre

I’ve been in excruciating pain for the last couple of weeks. It started innocently enough: I got an awesome Thai massage, which loosened everything up. Loosened everything up enough that I managed to later torque some muscle in my hip, a rather critical muscle/muscles for balance. This was bad the day we were in Sardinia, […]

Filed Under: Medical, Travel Tagged With: medical, travel

Vatican Flag on the Moon

September 29, 2014 By Deirdre

As we were wandering through the Vatican museums the other day, Rick saw this small display. It has the Vatican flag, a small sphere with a few specks of rock, and the following inscription: Presented to the people of the Vatican City by Richard Nixon President of the United States of America This flag of […]

Filed Under: Science, Travel Tagged With: science, travel

Luggage, Again

September 21, 2014 By Deirdre

So, you’ll never guess what we saw in Civitavecchia yesterday. Yep, the long-lost bag was found! Sadly, this threw off the bag count, and another bag was left behind. I’m hoping this doesn’t become a trend….

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: travel

The Continuing Luggage Saga….

September 17, 2014 By Deirdre

In the last installment of the lost luggage saga, mom’s suitcase was pouting in Köln, Germany, despite there being no visits to Germany on her itinerary. On Monday, we visited Ibiza, one of the Balaeric Islands. That was the day the luggage was due to try a re-delivery attempt in Málaga, despite our having left […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: travel

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