The first time I traveled abroad, I went equipped with several hundreds of dollars worth of traveler's checks. In case you have no idea ...

The year is half over now and it is time for another book check in! Since I posted in February about the handful of good books that I had r...

And that is the second quarter of the year, over already! As you know,  earlier this year I talked about doing some purging  and since we ar...

You know you are getting older when you start reminiscing about the "good old days" or how kids have it so much better than we did...

In the spirit of some of my blogger friends, I will call this Five Things Tuesday, the road trip version! Since I had an extra day off, I dr...

Earlier this year I did a list of gadgets that I use all the time and I thought it was time for another one! Here are a few more things tha...

As I mentioned last week, Memorial Day weekend normally kicks off "summer" in these parts. It means we can start swimming a little...

Happy Memorial Day! This weekend kicks off the "official" backpacking season for me each year, so I thought I would finally post a...

I heard a phrase the other day that reminded me of my Grandad; he used to have a lot of these phrases he would throw out and this one really...

I recently listened to the book Food, A Love Story by the comedian Jim Gaffigan where he talks about his relationship with food. I don'...

Picking a favorite month is like picking a favorite travel destination, or a favorite child (not that anyone would ever do admit to that!) ...

Every year I do a recap of my spending , and I have broken the items into nine categories: Dining Out, Entertainment, Groceries, Health, Hom...

You have already met Bob , and you know that I have not really had a lot of experience with mountain biking, but that did not keep me from d...