Mountain Home State Park, which is filled with my beloved sequoia trees, had a major fire and this was our first visit since the burn.

It was John's birthday on May 27th and to celebrate we went to Lake Arrowhead for a few days.

For a change of environment during covid we rented an AirBnB in Temecula and enjoyed working remotely and vacationing all in one.

With Covid restrictions the family was in need of an uplifting diversion and international travel seemed a long way off....

Photos from our visit to Mountain Home State Park

Aside from immigrating to the US when I was seven, my first international trip was the summer between graduating high school and starting...

We were in Milan in November and planned to attend the European Triode Festival in Brittany one week later so spent the time between in...

John is a great fan of Sufi devotional music and had heard about the Rajasthan International Folk Festival (RIFF) which features that...

There was a family reunion at my sister's house so I included a visit to NYC. I always enjoy the quirky details in New York. I visited my...

John was speaking in Bologna and planned to fly in-and-out, but it had been some years since we were there and I couldn't resist joining...