Written in late April (because I am a fantastic procrastinator): Spring is finally springing, slowly day by day I watch the ice melting in the cove outside our house. Since returning home, Jim and I have felt overwhelmed with family deaths and moves, we've had an endless flu, all the while Jim has been working really hard and now I am recovering from foot surgery. Ohhhh, vacation where are you? It's time to complete my writing about our trip to Maui in Februa...

Hi all! You signed up to Jim and Donna's travel blog when we were on our big adventure in 2012-2013. We don't want to assume you are interested in all our travels so we are checking in with you. After having escaped winter for that 2012-2013 year, Jim especially is finding winters difficult here in Nova Scotia, Canada. When I say difficult, I mean he whinges regularly and wants nothing to do with shovelling or loading up the wood stove ever again! I like the cha...

Home at last....for the second time since we returned from South Africa on May 10. Let me back up a bit. Our last 24 hours in Cape Town comprised of: a delicious meal of tapas and wine at 'Fork' a disturbing and well acted play about the complexities of life in South Africa post-apartheid a scary 45-minute walk home from the play to our lodge - nothing happened but it did feel like we were tempting fate on our last evening in a city where everyone said to always...