The Island of Hawaii is my Happy Place! I think it’s this Gekko’s happy place too! Malasadas are Hawaii’s yummy version of a doughnut. We always stop at Tex Drive In for balls of fried dough that are golden brown…

July 19, 2021 Kalispell to Pocatello We awoke to another smoky, gray day. We celebrated our meet-up over breakfast with Alice, once again enjoying the fabulous spread that the Kalispell Grand Hotel offers its guests. She headed out towards the…

July 18, 2021 Kalispell The Grand Kalispell Hotel serves a magnificent breakfast. There’s a quiche I always love along with fruit and yogurt and pastries, muffins and bread. Alice joined us for a leisurely breakfast. Then we all went to…

Kalispell, Montana July 17, 2021 Day 23 Saturday in Kalispell, MT The morning at The Kalispell Hampton Inn brought another day of very smokey skies.  It’s nice to revisit places from years past and know where things are. We’ve been…

Days Eight through Eleven were all spent at Sandy’s beautiful house on Grindstone Lake hanging out with Dawn and Sandy and Andy and Judy. I was usually up around six and spent the early quiet time catching up, doing some…

On Grindstone Lake in Hayward, Wisconsin, the day is a beautiful sunny day with 70 º with a good amount of wind. Wimbledon plays for Bub on Sandy’s TV. It’s Bub’s 77th birthday but he doesn’t look any older. We…

We arrived in Hawaii on Saturday and settled in to our luxurious one bedroom suite. My previous post set the stage for the next three weeks. The first five days were spent just enjoying the paradise to which we’d been…

After jumping through all the pre-travel hoops and traveling for seven hours, Bub and I landed at The Kona International Airport about 2:30 on a beautiful, sunny afternoon. Post-flight, there was one more screening queue where we had to show…

It’s been a very hot summer with almost no rain. So, tennis took place pretty early most days to be off the courts before it reached 100 degrees. During the month of September, the Oro Valley Community Center was still…

August was hot and dry. The COVID-19 situation in Arizona is getting better but health clubs are still shut down. Luckily the tennis courts are safe and open and the Oro Valley Community Center is not charging their monthly fee….