After leaving Roanoke, we stayed in Charlottesville, Virginia for four nights. Charlottesville is a two hour drive from Roanoke, and is a good stop-over for us when we are taking the Auto Train home from Lorton, Virginia, which is also…
Happy April 2019 and Easter!
I’ve gotten way behind with blogging lately, but not from the lack of things to blog about. The month of April literally flew by, and I’m trying to catch up now for an even busier May. Hope everyone had a…
Pre-Christmas weekend at Jekyll Island 2018
Jekyll Island pre-Christmas 2018 -Arrival day One After a wonderful night out at Bern’s, we drove from the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay Airport, to Jekyll Island Georgia for a 3 night pre-Christmas weekend, in what has now become a yearly…
Touring Wine Country in Montevideo
On our first full day in Montevideo, we took a wonderful wine tour to a family winery which included a private room lunch with wine pairing. As we got ready for breakfast, we had a nice view out the window…
Happy Pre-Birthday Steve “DOS”!
For those who read this blog regularly, you know that we are both Steve’s; I’m sometimes referred as Steve number one or in Spanish “Uno”, while the other Steve is nicknamed “DOS”, for Spanish two. My family picked up on…
Chilean Wine Touring with Jose – Day Two
On our second full day of wine touring, we awoke to a beautiful sunrise view over the vineyards and distant Andes Mountains at our hotel, TerraVina in Santa Cruz, Chile. While yesterday was overcast and rainy all day, today was…
Day trip along the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway to Chateau Morrisette
I’ve been up in Virginia for the last month or so while my parents are both recovering from separate falls. While I’ve been working remotely during the week, and visiting the parents twice-daily, by the time the weekend came, Steve…
Catching up with posting, and Columbus Day week Trip to Beijing
Wow – it’s Oct 5th and we’re sitting in the Orlando Admiral’s Club waiting for our 7:15pm flight to Charlotte. From Charlotte we are flying on to Toronto, Canada where we are spending one night, before continuing our journey to…
Hurricane Irma – a Week Later . . .
I’ve been mostly out of it technology-wise, or else to busy to blog lately due to Hurricane Irma. A quick post to say we are alright, and weathered the storm fairly well. I had some roof shingles come off and…
Weekend in Roanoke visiting Family
On Friday afternoon I finished up my work-week in Chicago, and flew nonstop to Roanoke on a United Express jet. It was a nice flight, and quick too at just under two hours. So quick in fact we arrived 25…