Phillip gets a birthday card every year from his “Aunt” Olga that lives in the Netherlands. When I asked how they’re related, no one could say for sure, just that her last name is Van Reijn so must be through Phillip’s fathers’s mother. We meant to mail her a letter months earlier, but with wedding…
King’s Cross/ San Pancras to Gare du Nord
There is a very distinct different culturally and architectural between the public transportation services in London and Paris. Never once in London did we feel unsafe, like we typically do using public transit in Southern California. The stations also may have felt worn and well used in places in London, but never terribly dirty and…
Buckingham Palace and Ye Olde Mitre
I’ve been writing about our adventures in pieces because these first few days of our honeymoon are so fast pace. I’m stealing this time waiting in line for the Catacombs of Paris. We are packing so much in, we probably should have packed more comfortable shoes. By the time we finished with Westminster Abbey on…
Camping in Borrego Springs
April is probably the latest you’d want to go out in the desert of Southern California, unless baking in the sun and hallucinating mirages cartoon style is your idea of a good time. Even though the mornings were cool and the nights breezy, the blistering heat of the sun meant that sunscreen was a necessity…