I have this classification system. There a REI people and there are non-REI people. There are Burning Man people and there are non-Burners. There are Cruise-for-over-4 days people and there is Amy. I fall into the latter category for all of those. Now my parents… they are REI people and Cruisers (in fact they already…… Continue reading Day 6: They let the flasher into Canada

Still adjusting to the time change, and waking up at 6am to ‘sunlight’, we found ourselves in Skagway, Alaska. Our excursion report time was 9am so we had a leisurely breakfast in the dining room. We have all agreed that the buffet is for lunch only. No one likes to wake up and have to…… Continue reading Day 4: Skagway. No thanks to a glacial facial!

The thing about a massive floating Vegas-style hotel, aka The Ovation of the Seas, is the sheer amount of people traveling alongside you. And with that many people, the odds of encountering my favorite type of tourist (The Spatially Unaware cluster of families) increases exponentially. And sure enough, on my morning walking loop, I may…… Continue reading Day 3: Juneau. “That whale is broken”

The day started off pretty relaxing until my realtor texted me that escrow was missing a document package I mailed LAST Friday within San Diego county! I guess since I mailed it from another country (aka North County San Diego), maybe I didn’t have enough postage applied for international post. Very distracted and trying to…… Continue reading Let’s try that again…

All morning on the news, we kept hearing about the heatwave happening in Seattle and how people are having to stay cool. So googling the weather, I find it’s only 88 degrees MAX and they are struggling – clearly they have never spent time in Riverside where it gets over 100 during the summer. Guess…… Continue reading Seattle and it’s ‘heatwave’

Wow, it’s only been about 2 months since I last blogged, sick as all hell, from Mexico. Lots has been going on for me and I find myself in 3 escrows while on vacation to catch a cruise ship to Alaska! I don’t recommend it, at all. The multiple escrow part. I’ll let you know…… Continue reading “I need to edibilize myself”