Travel

Last week I visited San Francisco for the first time. Several authors and artists I admire live in San Francisco and I’ve always wanted to see the city they talk about. My husband had a conference there so I tagged along. Not knowing where everything I wanted to see was in relation to our hotel, […]

Part of the fun of traveling for me is discovering new patterns and color combinations. I found them at the Tulip Museum. The windows in the Rijksmuseum Flower stand at a market in Haarlem. Fake tulips in Amsterdam and a church floor in Kerkrade A quilt displayed in a quilt store (Yes, I visited 2 […]

While we were in Amsterdam, we visited a cat museum, I had read about. The museum is one of the few canal houses you can tour. The house was amazing and the collection of cat artwork is fabulous. There were posters, paintings, drawings… …and even a Picasso. This ‘Cat from Outer Space’ poster inspired movie […]

America is a relatively new country and we don’t have centuries old buildings, especially not here in Alaska where most building were constructed in the 1970s and 1980s. I really enjoyed the variety of architecture we saw on our trip. Here are some of my favorites. Grote Kerk (Church) in Haarlem Interior of Grote Kerk […]

After leaving Rolduc Abbey we headed to Germany. We wanted to visit the Mosel Valley and Burg Eltz, a fairy tale castle. The castle above is not Burg Eltz, it was one of the castles we passed via train on the way to a town called Moselkern. The towns along the Mosel River were beautiful. […]

A holiday far away from home is amazing but after 12 days, I was ready to return home to the kitties and my own bed. After one night in Frankfurt, Germany to adjust to the time zone, we boarded a train for Amsterdam. We then spent 4 days exploring Amsterdam and a nearby city of […]