We woke up at 4:00 am today (Tuesday) in Vancouver, left the apartment a little after 5:00 and walked three miles to the train station. Then we took Amtrak to Seattle. We’ll be here through Friday evening. I had told Mom about this trip last month when I planned it. She said she and Dad…
My mom died at 2 pm EDT today. She had been in the hospital for a few days with pneumonia but wasn’t responding to antibiotics. Maureen and Jane were with her as were my dad’s sister Verna and my cousin Derek. I prepared an obituary for her today, but the funeral details are still being…
We’ve enjoyed our time here in Whistler and will be heading back to Vancouver tomorrow morning. Due to the nature of the development here – pedestrian mall/ski resort connected to a curvy street and trail system – it’s easy (at least for us) to get lost. Charlie, who has had an excellent sense of direction…
We returned to Vancouver from Maui Friday morning, moved from one apartment to another Saturday afternoon, and took a taxi to Whistler Sunday afternoon. Monday was Laurel’s 14th birthday, and we went zip lining through the temperate rainforest in the morning. There were just two other zip liners with us, a man and his 8-year-old…
On our drive to Haleakala National Park and its volcano on Thursday, we stopped at Mama’s Fish House for which I had a $25 gift certificate from my time share. Its name is folksy; we found out the restaurant is not! The restaurant is elegant, and the fish is local. The menu detailed where the…
With our free (kind of) sign-up trip from the timeshare company that I bought into in December, we flew to Maui on Saturday, May 24, and will fly home late on Thursday, May 29 (which it already is nearly everywhere in the world except here). We had a layover in Portland first which had non-potable…
Today was Victoria Day, a Canadian national holiday (except in Quebec). So we took a much-needed break from our backbreaking labor…I guess that sentence depresses me more than amuses me. I need a job. We went to Stanley Park again today, this time exploring some of the west side of the park, including Lost Lagoon…
Four years ago Charlie started swallowing air resulting in a huge, pregnant-looking, painful belly. One of the doctors I took him to said it couldn’t possibly be from air swallowing and ordered a number of expensive tests. I then took him to another doctor who ordered more tests. Turns out it was just air. Now…
I still have a bit of a cough, and Laurel’s jaw still aches from the surgery; but I think we may be well enough and the rain may stop long enough to do some sightseeing this week. Yeeha! In fact we already started yesterday. Friday we walked to Queen Elizabeth Park where we walked around…
We’re still sick; I’ve got it the worst now, but Laurel still has a temp of 100 (as do I). She’s had a fever for nearly three weeks now. Despite that, she had her wisdom teeth extracted this morning. I scheduled the consultation at the oral surgeon’s office when we were still in Denver, and…
Travels with Charlie and Laurel 