September 28 – October 2, 2025 Our annual (usually) fall road trip was an abbreviated affair this year—just four nights away—but a welcome break from the routine of life at home. I’d been scouting out possibilities on Google Maps and realized that neither my partner nor I had been down the Fraser Canyon on Highway 1 between Lytton and Hope since we were kids, so we mapped out a route that ended up taking us there. After spending a night in Vernon, we drove north to Westwold,

A family cat-sitting commitment took us on a twelve-day visit to Vancouver and the Lower Mainland this month. Between social engagements,...

We interrupted our stay in Munich with a twelve-day odyssey through the Austrian Alps and southern Germany. Reinhardt, bless his heart,...