About Me

I am “ate up” with a Peter Pan syndrome. Call it living within an inner innocence or simply refusing to completely grow up, but I would like to think it is a little of both. I have had more than my share of life experiences to jade me but I refuse to let anyone or anything take the smile off my face or the craziness out of my dance. Oh and I still have some dance moves to show off.

I am a very exuberant, barely grey in the hair, mom of six and an amazingly fortunate nonny to eight grands.
Weirdly enough, if my oldest grand-daughter had decided to take up the march of producing early, I would have been a great-grandmother by the age of 57. I am glad she is taking baby steps and not rushing.
Seriously, there should be an option in life to have the grands first. : )

I have been married before but finally met my “meant-to-be” fella when I was 44, and have decided that Han is a keeper. We have so much fun together, have had many an adventure and now we are setting out to create more memories that will hopefully keep us company in our (far away) elderly age as we sit in our proverbial porch rockers, but knowing us it will be hammocks strung between two palm trees.

Goal: I want to learn to completely let go and give my inner butterfly permission to fly free without worry, stress or fear.

Here we go……

After completely retiring from hospitality in 2025, we decided that this website/travelblog is something we do together. After all we travel together until life runs out of road.

Han has traveled the world for many years; I guess it’s safe to say decades. His approach to travel has always been what fellow traveler and life philosopher Anthony (Tony) Bourdain once beautifully put in words:

“A vacation gone wrong is almost always because people try to do too many things. Most of us are lucky to see certain place once in a lifetime. Please, make the most of it by doing as little as possible. Walk a little. Get lost a bit. Eat. Catch a breakfast buzz. Have a nap. Listen to the music. Local if you can. Dance or have at least a lightness in your step. Try and have sex if you can, build the experience as a memory. Eat again. Lounge around drinking coffee. Maybe read a book. Drink some wine. Eat. Repeat. See? It’s easy.”