Living the retirement dream

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  • Peggy in New Orleans

    Peggy in New Orleans

    Peggy Scott moved into our neighborhood in 2007 and she literally changed our little section of Beacon Hill. She made friends with everyone and introduced us all to each other making it a much friendlier and loving neighborhood. Since selling our home in 2020 she has opened her home, heart and auto to us. We […]

    Living our retirement dream

    January 31, 2023
    New Orleans
    Congo Park, Dooky Chase, Louis Armstrong Park
  • New Orleans with the stalkers

    New Orleans with the stalkers

    Our stalkers, Andrew and Dick have sold their homes in Sitges Spain and Berlin Germany and have purchased another home in Palm Springs California. Very sadly, their companion and friend of nine years, Henry the English Bulldog, died recently and a trip to New Orleans is a welcome diversion for them.

    Living our retirement dream

    January 28, 2023
    New Orleans
    Brennans, Café Degas, Oak Alley, Swamp Tour
  • New Orleans with Neil & Audrey

    New Orleans with Neil & Audrey

    We moved to this city on December 1 and were alone to explore until December 22. We spent a long weekend in Ponte Vedra Florida with our oldest son, Jason, and his family December 15-18 and our oldest daughter Jennifer flew here with husband Rob and son Jackson on December 22 just hours before we […]

    Living our retirement dream

    January 19, 2023
    New Orleans
  • New Orleans

    New Orleans

    This is a city that we have visited a couple of times and the last time we left with no desire to ever return and yet here we are moving to New Orleans for a three month winter stay. Our winter stays have always been the most problematic as we are not attracted to the […]

    Living our retirement dream

    December 8, 2022
    New Orleans
    Magazine Street
  • El Camino de Santiago, León to Astorga

    El Camino de Santiago, León to Astorga

    Our two days in León have been very pleasant and restful and we are ready to head on out towards Santiago. We have finished the easiest part of this Camino and will soon be hitting the mountains and unstable weather of Galicia. Jim has walked this section with our daughter Emily in 2015 and is […]

    Living our retirement dream

    November 12, 2022
    Astorga, El Camino de Santiago, Villar de Mazarife
  • León

    León

    We arrived in León early morning and can’t check into our hotel until after noon so we had some time to explore the city. León is a city on the Bernesga River in northwest Spain with a population of over 200,000. It’s home to many churches and cathedrals noted for their architecture and art.

    Living our retirement dream

    November 8, 2022
    El Camino de Santiago, Leon, Plaza Mayor, Sagrada Familia
  • El Camino de Santiago from Burgos to Leon

    El Camino de Santiago from Burgos to Leon

    We really enjoyed our time in Burgos exploring the city, resting and taking care of ourselves and meeting up with our Camino Amigos who also happen to be in the city. It still amazes us how our fellow pilgrims come and go. Stopping for one day allows some of them to catch up with us […]

    Living our retirement dream

    November 6, 2022
    El Camino de Santiago, Fromista, Leon, Meseta, Sahagun
  • Rest Day in Burgos

    Rest Day in Burgos

    Our rest days are always highly anticipated as we don’t have to get up early and rush out into the cold darkness and start walking. We do have to find a lavanderia and wash all of our clothes though. In the larger cities we also search out ethnic restaurants other than Spanish for a change […]

    Living our retirement dream

    November 1, 2022
    Abba Hotel, Burgos, Burgos Cathedral, El Camino de Santiago
  • Belorado to San Juan de Ortega and on to Burgos

    Belorado to San Juan de Ortega and on to Burgos

    This is another 15 mile day which is about our daily average and there are more rolling hills which keeps it interesting. We leave before sunrise using our headlamps. It is quite cool at 52 degrees but with the exertion and humidity we get sweaty quite quickly. San Juan de Ortega has a population of […]

    Living our retirement dream

    October 29, 2022
    El Camino de Santiago
  • Najera to Santa Domingo de la Calzada and then on to Belorado

    Najera to Santa Domingo de la Calzada and then on to Belorado

    Our typical days are getting up at 6-6:30am, breakfast at 7 and heading out in darkness 7-8. We like to walk 4-6 miles before stopping for another breakfast as the breakfast fare at our lodgings is fairly meager with minimal fruit, cereals, maybe yogurt with lots of bread, ham and cheese. Jim likes a Spanish […]

    Living our retirement dream

    October 27, 2022
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    El Camino de Santiago
  • Logroño to Najera

    Logroño to Najera

    After a one day rest, nice bath soaks and all freshly laundered clothes we are ready to set out on a 16 mile day which ended up being 17.7 with over 1,000 feet of elevation gain.

    Living our retirement dream

    October 18, 2022
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    El Camino de Santiago, Logroño, Najera, Rioja
  • Rest Day In Logroño

    Rest Day In Logroño

    We have only walked four days and 61.85 miles. but are looking forward to a rest day in Logroño which is a city of 150,000 with a Cathedral of course. Our hotel is adequate, in the city center and has a bathtub which is great for soaking our sore bodies. Actually neither of us has […]

    Living our retirement dream

    October 16, 2022
    Uncategorized
    El Camino de Santiago
  • Camino de Santiago Francés, From Pamplona to Logroño

    Camino de Santiago Francés, From Pamplona to Logroño

    We walked almost half of the Camino del Norte just one year ago now. We did well from San Sebastián to Bilbao and from Bilbao to Santander. Jim began struggling and we had to abort the pilgrimage on October 3 in San Vicente de la Barquera when Jim just felt that he couldn’t go on […]

    Living our retirement dream

    October 15, 2022
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    El Camino de Santiago, Pamplona
  • Pamplona

    Pamplona

    Hemingway reportedly made Pamplona world famous for its weeklong festival of the running of the bulls when he wrote The Sun Also Rises in 1926. We are going there, not for the Festival of San Fermin as it is known in Spain, but to begin a 451 mile pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Our goal […]

    Living our retirement dream

    September 30, 2022
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    El Camino de Santiago, Pamplona, Running of the bulls, San Fermin
  • Deb Does London

    Deb Does London

    Deb Camara has become a very close friend and an adopted daughter. We first met Deb as a childhood friend and running companion of our daughter-in-law Catarina Gomes Cipriani. Deb is a social worker dealing with high risk children in Somerville Massachusetts. It is a very intense, high stress job which she is very adept […]

    Living our retirement dream

    September 25, 2022
    London
    Come from away, Death of Queen Elizabeth II, London
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