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Thanksgiving in San Miguel de Allende
We are very happy to be back in Mexico and even happier to be able to hang out with Miguel and Ivonne who have become very dear amigos thanks to our mutual friend Adele Waller who gave us an email introduction. Besides saving Jim’s life one year ago during his heart attack we have had […]
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Return to San Miguel de Allende
We flew out of Boston early on the morning of 15 November 2021 headed for San Miguel de Allende, it is exactly one year since we embarked on this same trip which ended when Jim had an acute ST elevation myocardial infarction on November 25. It has been a long and eventful year, some of […]
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Update on the end of El Camino and Jim’s health
One month ago today, October 4, Jim trudged up one last hill, sat on a guardrail next to Sandy and bade a teary farewell to our dream of finishing the Camino this year. His body would just not allow him to continue. It has been a long painful month of dealing with a broken health […]
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Camino del Norte: from Santander to Santander or as Sandy calls it “Meano del Norte”.
September 30 is a down day in Santander which means doing laundry and getting ready for another week of walking. We also visited the local mercado just for interest as we certainly can’t buy anything. We really liked Santander with a good mix of old and new. Below is the original Santander Bank being renovated. […]
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Down day in Bilbao
What a luxury not to have get up early and walk up and over steep hills. Our bodies are thanking us although we have both felt quite good every day with minimal stiffness or soreness. We are trying to stretch a little more as we rarely stretch at all. Since we arrived in Bilbao around […]
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El Camino Norte: From San Sebastian to Bilbao.
We are both very anxious, we have been planning this pilgrimage for ten months. Karen Lewis and Bill Boyle, a classmate of Jim’s from high school, college and medical school and his wife, actually planned the trip through Mac’s Adventure and we joined them. We then recruited our neighbor Peggy Scott to walk the first […]
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On The Road Again San Sebastian/Donostia
We left Madrid 18 months ago as the world shut down and now on 12 September we returned to Madrid en route to San Sebastian where we will begin a pilgrimage of 500 miles, walking from San Sebastian to Santiago de Compostela along the northern coast of Spain. This pilgrimage is called El Camino de […]
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Welcome 2021, Farewell 2020
2020 has probably been one of the worst years any of us have ever known, but in spite of that most of us still have an awful lot of things to be very thankful for. Our items of thankfulness for this year include: 1. Being retired from health care; 2. Having our extended family healthy, […]
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Road Trip 2020, Asheville to Denver.
Our last day in Asheville we had breakfast at Sunny Point Cafe which was also our first stop on arriving here. After breakfast Bob and Gail dropped us at the airport to pick up a rental car. They were very low on cars and the first car we got, a Toyota Camry, had a loud […]
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Road Trip 2020, Western North Carolina
We have two weeks in Asheville to spend time with family and friends. Saturday morning September 5 Jim returns our rental car to the Asheville airport and takes a taxi home. We will be using the MacAlpines Toyota Camry which has 158,000 miles on it. We are so appreciative of their generosity in allowing us […]
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Road Trip 2020 Boston to Asheville
Since escaping Madrid in March we have been in lockdown in Boston, living above the Post Office on Charles Street from March 21 until July 1 when we moved back into our own home on Beacon Street. In spite of being in lockdown we have stayed very busy as we are liquidating our entire estate […]
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Roadtrip, Boston to Erie Pennsylvania
We both retired in January of 2017 after 50 years of nursing for Sandy and 40 years of Emergency Medicine for Jim. Sandy had two retirement parties as she retired in March of 2016 and then returned to per diem work for a few months until Jim walked out of work for the last time […]
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Last Days of Socializing
One month ago today we took a train from Madrid to Barcelona to spend Sandy’s birthday weekend in Sitges with our stalkers Andrew and Dick. We have already written about the first part of the weekend in “Living and Traveling in a World with a Pandemic Coronavirus”. Watch the video above and hear Dick […]
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Last House Guest in Spain
Tom O’Toole arrived in Seville the evening of March 3 having flown in from LA. We first met Tom in February of last year in Mexico City through other friends. He actually stayed a few nights with us in CDMX and then we met up with him again in LA while on our way to […]
