my nice little life

Say hello to Marvin Floyd Lindquist – Sherry’s dad and the newest resident of our nice little life. Note the tan.  He’s a long time resident of Florida (after retiring from Ford motor company at a very early age thanks to a buyout).   He’s been living in a retirement community in Port Charlotte for quite [...]

Sorry that I’ve not been keeping up with the blog lately, but we’ve had a death in the family.  While we were in Spain (mid October), we learned that Sherry’s stepmother Kathy had been diagnosed with lung cancer.  As soon as we got home, Sherry went to Florida, where Kathy and Marvin (Sherry’s dad) live, [...]

                                             The writing is on the wall – we’ll go next year.   As you may remember, we had three choices for our Mexico trip.   A  1500 mile bus ride, two months in Queretaro studying Spanish, or a combination of the two, with studying for a much shorter period of time (and in more than [...]

Well, we’ve decided.  We’re going to spend two winter months in Querétaro, Mexico taking Spanish courses.   We really really really want to do the 1500 mile bus tour, but frankly I need the Spanish instruction.  AND we figure that the trip will be much more enjoyable if I get a little further along with Spanish.  [...]

Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com Some people collect places like baseball trading cards.  They mark it off their list with a “Been there; done that” mentality.   Gee, I hope we’re not like that.  After all, we do have a list of places we want to see.  And we rarely go back to the places we really [...]

We had been home from Spain for less than 48 hours, still suffering from a fairly severe bout of jet lag (it felt like we had a pretty good hangover).   Funny, don’t you think, that we would not feel well at home when we had even been able to escape North Africa without so much [...]

Here’s an awful thought that kept running through my mind the whole time we were in Marrakech:  Do you remember that on 9-11 the airlines stopped flying?  That people were stranded, especially Americans, all over the world, for weeks?  What if something like that had happened while we were in Marrakech?  Now, some people love [...]

We were quite impressed with Spain.   Of the six cities we visited, there wasn’t a single one that we didn’t like.   They had their differences, of course, so we had our favorites, but all in all we found that we really liked Spain.   The six cities were spread out over a large area and in [...]

We were eating lunch on an outdoor patio of one of the many restaurants that circle the medina.  From our table we could hear the music of the snake charmers.   A moment later, a group of young acrobats performed their act (mostly somersaults with and without hands) about ten feet in front of us.  And [...]

It’s unfair (and inaccurate) the judge a country by visiting one city.   After all, I wouldn’t characterize Manhattan in NYC or Austin Texas as being the typical American experience.   We’ve only been to Paris, but we know that Paris is not France.  So to judge Morocco by Marrakech (or worse, to judge Morocco [...]