I’ve Been Tagged

My brother-in-law tagged me over on Facebook. I’m to post a travel photo each day, for ten days. Below are yesterday and today’s. I’m not supposed to include anything about them, but here I think I can allow myself that privilege. This isn’t Facebook, after all.

Day One: Heidelberg, 8.22.18

Day Two: Sunrise, 1.1.17 (California Central Valley)

Ah, Procrastination!

I need to practice and organize everything for tomorrow: I begin a four week run of the musical Wicked and I like to make sure I have everything organized and ready the day before. Alas, that means I first think of other things I’d prefer to do. This time it was to look back on last year’s big trip. How I wish we had managed one this year, but it wasn’t to be, so photos from other trips will have to suffice.

This image is, I confess, from the iPhone. I made another image with the Canon, but I prefer this one, so there you go. This was on our walk from our parking spot down below up to the Chartres Cathedral. It was a bit of a hike, but it was so much fun to be on walkways like this one.

Le Tertre Saint-Nicolas, 9.4.18

Back Home

Dan and I took a five week trip — a vacation of a lifetime, really— and have only been home since late Monday night. It’s going to take a lot of time to go through photos, so I will share just one for now and hope I get over jet lag enough that I can get to more when time allows. At the moment the brain can’t quite function enough to do much!

Places we stayed (asterisks are the one-night only stays)

New York
Virginia* (due to a missed flight at Dulles)
London
Paris
Heidelberg
Munich*
Bologna*
Lucolena (in Chianti) or at least close to that, at Borgo Castagnoli
Firenze

What a wonderful adventure. I’m blessed to be married to a terrific travel companion. I’m grateful we were able to make this huge trip. I’m forever thankful family met up in various places, and we even celebrated a marriage in both New York and Italy!

I dream of doing another of these again.

Now back to reality, which includes both opera and teaching. I’m glad my reality is also so wonderful!

The Arno, Firenze, 8.27.16The_Arno,_Firenze,_8.27.16.jpg