We arrived in Nairobi in the evening. We were whisked through immigration after being fingerprinted and driven to our hotel. So far, so good. Security is tight. Bomb-sniffing dogs, a mirror to sweep under the car, and x-ray machines for our bags and ourselves. Having made it through the security gauntlet and checking in, we …
Author: Susan
Susan AKA Sue, AKA Aunt Susie: I am a former journalist and teacher at semi-loose ends who is still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I am restless and determined. I love a challenge.
Things I like: photography, yoga, mountains, a great book, exploring, music.
Things I am not so keen on: standing still, gray days, coconut
Rolling with the Punches
Or, Giving Up Pains Me I'll start at the beginning with an outline of the trip. In subsequent blogs, we'll delve into the details. We arrived in Nairobi on Monday Feb. 19 and were escorted through immigration and to the driver who took us to the Villa Rosa Kempinski, a lovely hotel in the city. …
Ta Ta for A Bit
This will be our last blog for several weeks. If Steven doesn't get eaten by a lion (or maybe even if he does), our (well, if I get eaten by a lion, it won't really be our blog anymore, will it?) next blog will appear soon after March 12 when we will have lots of …
One Final Pre-Death-March Death March
In a week. we'll be headed to Nairobi (with a pit stop in Valencia over the weekend). Hard to believe. Seems like we planned this latest crazy adventure a loooong time ago and suddenly it is upon us. So close, in fact, that we have completed our final training death march. (Don't tell Steven, but …
Welcome Genny and Z
Plus: My new favorite place This week we welcomed our niece, Genny, and her friend, Z. We always have an open door for friends and family and we are very glad they are taking advantage of it. We haven’t had so much giggling in our lives since … forever! We’ve mostly been wandering (as usual). …
Istanbul Redux
Getting out of the Schengen zone seemed like a problem at the time we were wrestling with the bureaucracy in Valencia, but now that we are back in Istanbul, it feels like it’s all just worked out. We decided to stay on the Anatolian side, so we’re temporarily living in Asia. It really does feel …
Music, Musical and a Movie
Paris loves jazz. We love Paris. We love jazz. But we haven't had a chance to put them together until this visit. We kicked off our not-holiday weekend with a trip to 38Riv, a teeny, tiny jazz club (about 40 people were able to squish in (tiny is being quite generous, the room was about …
Ooh La La
Yay, we're in Paris! OK, so the weather is not what I would call great, but who cares? (Steven does, but he's been quite whiny about the cold lately...It is cold. I don't like it.) We have to tough job of watching Seuss the cat and a beautiful apartment from which we can stroll around …
Valencia, vale
Or home, temporary home We've been here about a week now, and like everywhere else we've been (except Santiago) we've fallen in love with it. We have a pattern of investigating real estate, discussing how we would make it work, dreaming of life in _____ (fill in the blank), talking through the practicalities and then …
48 Hours in Motion
Plus: Is 9+ miles a death march? The answer, of course, is a lot. This was our only full weekend in Berlin and we didn't want to waste a minute of it. Guess what? We didn't. As per our usual, we mapped out a walking route that came out to a little less than 10 …
Doing It On The Road 