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When we travel, I like to keep a journal, but I usually wait until we get home to post to my blog. This allows me to look at the pictures Jim and I took and decide which to include with the posts. I can also research trivia that I think will add to the blog.…

Here’s the 12th post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it! Saturday, October 11, 2025 On our last day with the group, we were on the bus by 8:00 a.m. and off to Bath, a historic city…

Here’s the third post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it!

Here’s the second post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it!

Here’s the first post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it! September 29-30, 2025 The first day of our three-week adventure started as we pulled out of our driveway at around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, September 29,…

Have you heard of Brockway, PA? Have you been there? Well, we were recently, there and a few things impressed me that I’d love to tell you about. Why were my husband and I in Brockway? Because he’s nearly 100% Italian, and he wanted to explore his roots. The Brockway area happens to be one…

Dear Visitor: I thought you might be interested in reading a little about our recent trip to southern Germany. There were eight of us, including our guide, Derek, a German teacher at a local high school here in northwest Pennsylvania.

There’s a boulevard in Curtea de Argeș, Romania that never sleeps. The one-way traffic on Bulevardul Basarabilor is constant and oblivious to a speed limit. Pedestrians amble the sidewalks along the narrow, tree-lined thoroughfare at a steady pace.  Young and old, fast and slow. Here and there people pause in clusters to converse in patches…

Until I set foot on Romanian soil for a family event in 2019, I pictured a country coldly washed in black-and-white and imagined that its occupants never smiled. I was, obviously, wrong. The country is alive with natural beauty, and the people are warm and friendly.  Happily, I’m headed back to Romania this summer and…

Tonight, my friend and I were having dinner at a fun Mexican restaurant in my town, when we heard shouting and screaming. Not knowing if it was reaction to something sports-related on one of the TV screens, we casually looked toward where the sound was coming from and realized this was actually an incendiary altercation…