I do actually do things when I’m home sometimes.

Whoops: Stories About Mistakes: I was part of this Better Said Than Done storytelling show at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack in Falls Church. The show was sold out, but that is mostly because it’s a tiny place. The show was wonderful. I was telling a new story about my terrible sense of direction ( Read more... )

It continues to be easier for me to answer blog prompts monthly than it would be to write every day. This set of questions is from Spiffikins. I am just OCD-ish enough to fix the capitalization. By the way, I have another set of 2024 questions, which I will do soon.

1. What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever seen in nature? I have lots of ( Read more... )

Continuing last week’s New York trip…

Aside from some random walking around, most of Wednesday was spent going to the theatre.

Harmony: I had been a little hesitant to see this musical, because I generally prefer musical comedy to musical tragedy. And, while I don’t hate Barry Manilow (who wrote the music, with book and lyrics by Bruce Sussman, ( Read more... )

I took a quick trip to New York last week. Late January / early February is a good time to go there, because hotel prices are fairly low. I was able to get a room in midtown for just over $100 a night. The primary purpose of the trip was seeing the Encores production of Once Upon a Mattress, but a little time browsing Time Out turned up three ( Read more... )

The weekend before the one that just passed, I was home and fairly sociable.

tick. tick . . . BOOM1 On Friday night, I went to see this musical, which was part of the Broadway Center Stage series at the Kennedy Center. That means that the staging is fairly minimal, but they still had a video screen, providing parts of the setting. For those ( Read more... )

Sorry for the long delay in writing. I’ve been distracted by trying, not very successfully, to get caught up on stuff at home. I’ve also been getting ready for an upcoming storytelling show (live only and sold out, so I’ll spare you the shameless self promotion this time).

Celebrity Death Watch: Edwin Wilson was a theatre critic, primarily ( Read more... )

I think this will get me caught up on everything up until this month ( Read more... )

The next island we called at was Ua Pou. There were a few options there. I chose to do a four-wheel drive tour. This cost extra, but was worth it in my opinion. The scenery was spectacular.


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I decided to split up the Aranui write-up because it was getting long.

We had a minor kerfuffle about the timing of our transfer from the Intercontinental to the dock for the Aranui, but it was easy enough to take a taxi. The boarding process was straightforward enough, and I was pleased to see that my cabin looked quite comfortable.


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Here is a part 1 of a brief summary of my trip to the Austral and Marquesa Islands in December. This trip came about back in May, when Sherri, who I know from the Travelers’ Century Club (TCC), asked me if I was interested in joining her to check off a couple of the more obscure parts of the South Pacific. The idea was to take the Aranui (a ( Read more... )