Hole In The Donut Travels

Were it not for the fact that my family lives in Illinois I would never go there. I believe that every person, place and thing has a unique frequency. As we interact with other people, places and things these frequencies come into contact with each other. Sometimes they resonate with one another [...]

I’ve been back in the States for 16 days but there ain’ t been no grass growin’ under my feet, as they say. I spent two whirlwind days in Sarasota, drove a day and a half to North Carolina, spent three days on the Outer Banks performing such delightfully entertaining tasks as cleaning my [...]

My niece, Gina, got married last Saturday. I know it’s been said a million times before, but I can’t help myself – it seems like just yesterday she was a tiny infant and I was holding her in my arms. It is almost inconceivable that she’s now graduated from college and is a [...]

Take heart, all ye devoted fans who have written that you are in withdrawal because you no longer have my blog to read over morning coffee. I have not left for good – I only took a short break. While I absolutely loved writing about my travels and sharing my photography with you, [...]

I am sitting at the airport in Lisbon, Portugal, waiting to board my plane. This trip has been a wonderful adventure for me over the past six months. I don’t know why I was so driven to do it; I only know that it was extremely important for me. Perhaps I was feeling my [...]

It may be unfair of me to pick three words that define all of Portugal, since I only visited a tiny part of the northern coast, so I’ll say that the following three words define the coastal resort areas of Portugal:
Sunny: Practically perfect weather, mid-eighties during the day with gentle breezes and in the 70’s [...]