Where’s Your Sense of Adventure?

eric + leandra travel around the globe

Norfolk VA

Tonite we’re in Norfolk, VA, attending the last night of the River Rats reunion with Leandra’s dad. Tomorrow we make our way across the state to Harrisonburg, wine tasting along the way. If the weather cooperates we’ll go up and down Skyline drive on...

mint julep

I’ve mentioned previously that we have copious amounts of mint growing in our backyard and we are always looking for excuses to trim it up some. Well, Tuesday night there was a special about the Kentucky Derby on tv while I was preparing dinner and a segment...

New phones

As our practice post indicated the other evening we got new phones this week. I choose the LG enV (left) and Leandra got the LG vx8300 (right). Both have better cameras and (a little) better reception. I really like the keyboard on mine, and I’m hoping to use my...

our garden, version 2.007

Eric has been posting quite a few photos of our backyard here, but I’d like to continue the tradition of a separate garden page as well… so the one for this year is now up with photos from February, March, and April.

The war on tourism?

The New Zealand Herald story “America’s war on tourists” has been making its way around travel blogs, providing a viewpoint on visiting the US from other countries. Unfortunately, I’m not surprised that we’ve been voted the “most...