Category: travel

  • Just wrapped up six days of hiking on the islands surrounding Stockholm. They weren’t tough days; we didn’t log more than 9 miles on any given day, but it’s a couple decades since I logged these kinds of miles several days in row. I’m thanking all of the Nia dance practice in the past year,…

  • Stockholm loves its lilacs, which are blooming now everywhere. So many enormous lilac trees fill so many gardens, that the aroma of the blooms, swirls around all day. That was yesterday. Today, we are on Dalaro, one of the many islands in the archipelago. And the lilacs crowd all the lanes. From soft white to…

  • We have a great travel light; mostly we use it for camping, but it works on traditional trips too, less than 3 inches in diameter. It makes a great night light at each new place. We’ve used it on so many trips that it’s a familiar little beacon. The few times we’ve forgotten to pack…