I spent a week in Bristol, England as a housesitter, inbetween a couple of other housesitting gigs. A lurcher dog is a greyhound or whippet crossed with another breed and that’s what I was taking …
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England: where Bizarre and Quirky Meet
Welcome to England where the bizarre and quirky meet! Maybe it’s culture shock or maybe I just spot strange stuff and take photos. Today’s post features photos of the bizarre and quirky things I’ve seen …

Discovering London while Housesitting
Hi friends, and thanks for stopping by to read about discovering London while housesitting. Housesitting is a free work exchange between a home owner, who most likely also owns pets, and a sitter who stays …

Year Four of Maintaining a Healthier Lifestyle
It is year four of maintaining a healthier lifestyle! On July 29, 2019 I wrote a post called A Year to a Healthier Lifestyle. That was the one year mark of working towards a healthier …

Two Night Getaway in Anacortes
Due to an appointment on Thursday morning, February 9, I took two vacation days from work, and made it a two night getaway in Anacortes, Washington. I was kind of up in the air about …

Does Higher Education mean a Higher Paying Job?
What do you think? Does higher education mean a higher paying job? When you were younger, did you ever hear that you needed to keep going to school to get a higher paying job? I’m …

A Year of Maintaining a Healthier Lifestyle
A year ago I wrote about my Year to a Healthier Lifestyle. The quick recap is to avoid my blood sugar levels of crossing into diabetes territory, I had to make lifestyle changes to bring …

Do you Know what were you doing Ten Years Ago?
This morning, I woke up and was lying in bed thinking wow, it’s already May. Yes, it’s May 1, 2020. How different our lives have become since the New Year. For the first two months …

My Driving Adventure to Washington during the Travel Ban
With all the fears of the Covid-19 coronavirus, a lot of travel has been shut down and people are told to stay home. I live near the US border at Blaine, Washington and have been …

Traveling Solo after Divorce
Thanks for stopping by to read Traveling Solo after Divorce! For twenty years I had a built-in traveling companion. Now I was single again and wanted to travel. OK, so what’s stopping me? Why not? …