I step outside the RV for a 6 AM walk with Tango, and the smell of lilacs surrounds me. Sweet, strong, delightful. I don’t see any blooming lilacs close by but I am determined to find them. Tango and I head over one block and then down the steep hill. Another steep wooded hill rises…
Sunday, early evening! Time for a hike at Cougar Bay Preserve, a Nature Conservancy site. I had previously been to the nearby National Forest Ranger Station and stocked up on information about hikes in the area. I support the work of the Nature Conservancy and I have never been disappointed by a hike on their…
So happy that Coeur d’Alene has an abbreviation – CdA. I saw it first in a newspaper article. Apparently others decided that typing that lowercase d followed by an apostrophe is a bit cumbersome. So CdA it is. CdA is a small city with 55,000 people, in the Idaho Panhandle. It is 15 miles from the…
Reentry into civilization. Culture, coffee shops, healthy food, people, glorious people. In the parking lot, a cheery guy playing guitar to his lady, who was sitting in her car. Man in the choral concert Tuesday night with a man bun, something I have seen online but never in person. A friend from online who opened her…
I am from Ohio, the Buckeye State. It’s not like you see Buckeyes everywhere.If you really try, you can find chocolate/peanut butter buckeyes in the store. Never real buckeyes. Now I am hanging out in Washington, which has one of the best nicknames ever: the Evergreen State. State nicknames are fun. Never know when a trivia-type…
Blue Moon is snug and safe in a storage place. I need to keep the battery charged so I dug out the solar panel and hooked it up. I checked with the front office guy to make sure it was okay and he said no problem, and also “we have lots of sun here”. Really?…
Sunday late afternoon. I look online for nearby hiking trails and also download from Amazon a book about local hikes. I zoom in on Dishman Hills Natural Area, only a few miles away from the newlywed’s apartment. C’mon Tango, C’mon Miles (furry granddog). Let’s go explore. Woohoo hoo. Dishman Hills has several access points and a…