40 Years Later 40 years later, the gnome takes a step out the door to pick up where the trip turned back many years ago.

Photos: The Sound

Sunday, 1 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Whidbey Island

Sunday, 1 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Sunny Seattle

Wednesday, 25 Feb 2015 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Seattle

Saturday, 21 Feb 2015 | Photo Gallery

Springtime in Seattle

Saturday, 21 Feb 2015 | Views [179]

Cherry and plum blossoms on every block, daffodil and crocus coming out, hints of blue behind the clouds, and even one lovely cool but mostly sunny day shimmering on the bay, it is early spring in Seattle.  Our first try with Home Away is an ... Read more >

Photos: Mysterious Caddo

Thursday, 19 Feb 2015 | Photo Gallery

Mysterious Caddo

Thursday, 19 Feb 2015 | Views [448]

At Shady Glade Cafe they tipped us onto an experienced captain for a very reasonably-priced cruise through the cypress swamp, but it turned out that Todd Arnold knew stories about people and history as much as the wildlife. Although we came to hike, ... Read more >

Seeing Texas as a Traveler

Thursday, 19 Feb 2015 | Views [211]

Hometown (and home state) is different when viewed with different eyes.  Billboards can even be interesting as in: Don't text and drive, we can wait." Lucas Funeral Home. Admirable. "Welcome to the Church of Uncertain". As is the City Of, ... Read more >

Photos: Where the West Begins

Friday, 13 Feb 2015 | Photo Gallery

Where West Begins

Friday, 13 Feb 2015 | Views [215]

Opa Gnome makes his first stop at his roots in Fort Worth, Where the West Begins. After our long absence and only brief weekend trips home for the past 40 years, the Amon Carter Museum of (previously Western) American Art and the Cowgirl Museum ... Read more >

Tags: annie oakley, cowgirl, dale evans, fort worth, laura ingalls wilder

Photos: Packing and Reminiscing

Thursday, 5 Feb 2015 | Photo Gallery

The Last Week Home:Packing and Reminiscing

Thursday, 5 Feb 2015 | Views [378] | Comments [2]

Hmmm, planning for travel after retirement is not the same as travel in one's early 20's. Knowing what I do now, I must have been mad. Back then, one change of clothes, a few dollars, passport, names of some contacts and the travel information booth ... Read more >

Tags: packing

Opa Gnome finds snow

Monday, 5 Jan 2015 | Views [541]

visions of the Smokies: dappled sunlight and shadow on curving roads through tall beech forest, the wonder of clear mountain streams pouring over rock ledges, the view of ridge after ridge with fog tucked into the valleys in the early morning, hidden ... Read more >

Tags: fog, mountain streams, rhododendron

Photos: Smokies

Sunday, 4 Jan 2015 | Photo Gallery

Tags: smoky mountains national park

Photos: East Texas

Thursday, 11 Dec 2014 | Photo Gallery