When you get the offer to babysit your one-and-only, most precious granddaughter for 10 days while Mom & Dad take advantage of a business/pleasure trip to Australia, there is no better reason than to wave goodbye to Europe and return to sunny and warm southern California! I flew home on February 1, 2016, for the …
FAREWELL CHICAGO – HELLO WORLD!!
I thought this date (Friday, May 1st) would ever come. I've thought, and dreamed and planned for so long that now that it's just 4 days away, I'm so excited I can hardly sleep! My big 'estate sale,' conducted by the team of Babe & Snooks, went extremely well and put enough money in …
ALL GREAT ADVENTURES FIRST START WITH A MESS!
As my May 1st fly-way date fast approaches, so does the time I have left to de-clutter, decide what I want to have the movers put in storage on April 11th and what will be sold at my 'estate sale' on April 18th. I'm looking at this as a great opportunity to purge myself of …
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
2015 is going to be a monumental year for many of us. For me, it means packing up or selling off everything I own, putting what I'm keeping in storage, purchasing the first flight for my RTW trip, packing my bag and stepping off into the unknown. I was recently asked 'At your age, why …
Sharing my ‘Adventurous Life’
Last night I had the great pleasure and honor of speaking for the Modern Professionals group of International Women Associates. The title of my speech was 'My Adventurous Life - From Broadway to the Boardroom to Backpacking Around-the-World.' It was so fun to share my adventures with a really great group of women, and to encourage …
Here we go….again!
Hello Everyone - Bet you thought I had given up writing this blog! Nope - just took a break while getting settled into my new Chicago home. Over Thanksgiving (see family above) my youngest mentioned that my Facebook posts were getting much too long and I should go back to blogging instead. I agreed with …
A New Adventure Begins…..
I have lived in my little-house-by-the-sea in Wilmington, NC on-and-off for the past 5 1/2 years. I say on-and-off as during that time I was away serving in the Peace Corps and then traveling cross-country in my RV or in my Jeep. I decided it was time to move during my 4-month road-trip last Fall …
My Home on the Roam 