Day 3 at the coast started early with John catching the bus from tillamook back to Portland for a flight back to Chicago so he could attend an important meeting on Thursday. The last 3 standing on this trip 😀 spent the morning at the Oceanside beach then visited the…

Day 2 morning started with a walk on the beach with tide out. We walked through the tunnel to the Ricky side of the beach, then back through for the sandy stretch. The afternoon of day 2 on the coast was dedicated to exploring 2 of the 3 nearby scenic…

Sunday morning, we had another flurry of activity, with Liam and Mary heading to the airport, me and John meeting our Portland-based friends Alex and David for breakfast, and Paddy and Kathleen taking a stroll around the neighborhood to again admire the lovely gardens. I have a few photos not…

Graduation day very nicely filled up with all kinds of activities. We had 4 big parts of the day, a history department brunch, the graduation ceremony, dinner, then a party. First, we had a look at flowers blooming in our neighborhood, and when miles came over he opened up his…

We arrived in Portland with a day and a half or so to enjoy the city’s delightful flora, food, friends and fun before Miles’s graduation. We had a yummy pub dinner and then took a walk through Laurelhurst park where we saw the band Johnny Franco play, with Miles’s friend…

We had a great visit with Isabelle and Katie at the end of March. So many great photos! They are both very photogenic, did a lot of fun stuff, and were really good at taking and sharing a lot of photos, so I think this is going to be a…

We usually keep focused on the bigger picture here but I have to share that I went swimming tonight and shared a lane with a swimmer who made such a splash and left such a wake that it was like sharing a lane with Neptune and his team of white…

Funny that c&c down under readers should ask how the other two kennymen are doing, we had a report lined up from miles. Portland got its biggest snowfall in 80 years last week, and everything closed. Everything! Including Miles’s college and work. And far away in Merida, we had our…

As mentioned in the last post, after happy hour on the patio (it can be hard to distinguish between the many happy hours on the patio, but in this one I had a locally made kombucha!) we went to Catrin on Wednesday night and enjoyed the outdoor patio with animated…

We took a bus from Cancun airport to Merida last Thursday, which was a very pleasant 4.5 hour trip. Super relaxing and comfortable! We checked into our Airbnb and have been enjoying this peaceful and relaxing spot ever since. We’re staying in a traditional style home in the Centro, or…