San Diego Balboa Park Gardens

San Diego’s Balboa Park is a walkable urban treasure. Condensed within a relatively small radius is a world class zoo, art museums, car museum, air and space museum, outdoor gardens, food, street performers, reflecting pools, sculpture garden, and much more. There is something here for many different tastes […]

2020-02-23T10:33:41-08:00February 19, 2020|

Small Town Light Show in The Greening Of Coupeville

The Greening Of Coupeville is an annual small town tradition in the seaside town of Coupeville on Whidbey Island. Every year, town employees create light displays in small Cooks Corner Park near the waterfront historic district. Many people from the town come out to a special opening night, […]

2020-04-18T22:41:50-07:00December 7, 2019|

Coupeville Halloween Torchlight Parade

The Coupeville Halloween Torchlight Parade is an annual small town tradition that brings out the neighbors to enjoy costumes, catch up on chatting, and get in some pre-Halloween cheer. The event starts in Cooks Corner Park, with everyone milling around and running into others. Judges wander through the […]

2020-04-18T21:40:41-07:00October 26, 2019|

Unique Community Art Effort at Monarch Sculpture Park in Tenino

Monarch Sculpture Park is a community art effort started by an individual and now helped & carried by the community to keep it going. When it was formed in 1995, it grew across its 5 acres into a mix of sculptures that now totals 110+. It apparently went […]

2019-10-20T21:47:00-07:00October 13, 2019|

Colombia’s Historic and Colorful Cartagena

After a six-hour bus ride from Tayrona National Park that included riding on a flat tire for miles, we arrived in Cartagena.  The town offered intriguing history as a primary strategic Colombian location for centuries.  It was filled with pretty painted homes, huge ornate wooden doors with metalwork, and a […]

2019-11-24T09:24:47-08:00August 20, 2019|

Touring Magical Modern Medellin Colombia

I entered Colombia in a brain fog from a night of sporadic 20-minute naps totaling two hours of sleep. I flew overnight from Seattle to Medellin, across four flights and attempts at sleep constantly interrupted by tilting sideways, neck strain, or a pilot announcing air turbulence at 3:00 am as […]

2019-11-05T21:05:56-08:00August 11, 2019|

Colombia’s Beautiful Mountain Town of Jardin

Jardin beckoned to us: a small, colorful, beautiful town cradled by surrounding green mountains.  We arrived after a 4-hour drive from Medellin.  Even just getting there was fun.

Alex, our driver, took us from the paved urban roads of Medellin to the bumpy, rocky, rutted, dusty roads among small mountain towns.  […]

2019-11-07T19:40:37-08:00August 9, 2019|
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