Recent Posts

Christmas music!

Normally I try to wait till Thanksgiving (week) to start Christmas music, but since we need to have our shopping done in three weeks, I figured I'd start a little earlier. I usually start with Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole (linked to Amazon above), but with >106 hours...

Kommetjie, RSA

We've been planning our second trip to South Africa for a year, but somehow it has completely snuck up on us... Between the craziness that was August and getting house modifications finished, I can't even wrap my head around the fact that Thanksgiving is next week!...

curry cooking class

I have been looking forward to this class for weeks and I was, unfortunately, sorely disappointed. The instructor did nothing of the sort and the recipes were so easy, all I really needed to do was pick up the recipe packet and head home to make them myself rather...

A gorgeous day

Today was a beautiful day in NC - high in the upper 70's, sunny, with a nice breeze. Leaves are really starting to fall now, much to my raking chagrin, but at least the trees around here have some nice color. The picture below was taken of the backyard around 4pm:...

Lost

I have this sneaky (and sinking) feeling that no matter how ridiculous this show gets, I will keep right on watching it. And I will just become more and more irritated. JJ Abrams and I go waaaay back. I loved Felicity—the show started while I was a senior in college,...

nine wonderful years

I had this boyfriend in high school who figured that because my parents did well and I never wanted for things that the only way to show me how he felt was to buy me lots of stuff. We were in high school, mind you, so the jewelery and roses he bought me were a tad...

Dish TV, pt.2

About a month and a half ago we had DishTV installed, and so far, we're quite happy with the results. The receiver only supports output to two TVs, but since we really only use two TVs it's been an acceptable limitation for us. I'd estimate that 75% of our viewing is...

Our Itinerary

2024 Trips

San Diego, CA (Jan)
Sarasota, FL (Feb)
Valencia, Spain (Mar)
Mallorca (Apr)
Croatia (May)
Faroe Islands (Aug)
London, UK (Sept)
Bari, Italy (Sept)
Rome, Italy (Oct)
Frankfurt, Germany (Oct)

2022 Trips

Florida (Feb)
NC Mountains (Apr)
Washington DC (Apr)
Valencia, Spain (May)
Hilton Head, SC (May)
Pacific NW (Jun)
Long Island (Jul)
Florida (Sept)
Chicago (Sept)
Poland (Sept)
NC Mountains (Nov)
Euro Xmas Markets (Dec)

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Eric and Leandra in Orient Point, NY :)

Hello! This website chronicles the travel adventures of a computational biologist and a WordPress website developer (with past entries of our 😇 rescued mini schnauzers, Riesling and Pasha).

We’ve steadily increased our travel over the last several years and that is the focus of our blog currently, but you can read older ‘daily life‘ and ‘canine‘ posts by clicking on those links.

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Eric and Leandra in Orient Point, NY :)