Explorer Barb

Iceland is Green and Greenland is Icy

We arrived in Iceland in late August to partly sunny skies and temperatures in the 50’s after a not too terrible United flight from Newark to Reykjavik. There is currently no such thing as a direct flight from Philadelphia International so driving the extra hour and a half seemed logical versus options like connecting in…

Expedition Cruising

Yes, friends, it has been awhile. Transitioning back to Pennsylvania and then a marvelous, wonderful spectacular trip. Too bad one of the souvenirs I brought home was Covid, but at least I caught it doing something fun. But enough of that. Expedition (or adventure) Travel is not a new thing. It has been around since…

Banff National Park

It has been a wonderful summer not to be in Pennsylvania. Weatherwise anyway. Yes, I miss my friends and unlike last summer when the house was usually full of family, this year it’s been just the two of us. But the compensation has been looking out onto the blue waters and green mountainside here in…

Birds, Brews and Views

It’s been beautiful in northern Idaho, nothing like last year’s weird 100 plus degrees and record low lake levels. Today was a chamber of commerce day, literally, because we went on the Coeur d’Alene Chamber’s annual Osprey cruise. It is exactly what it wounds like. You get on one of the big tour boats that…

Catching Up

Happy Father’s Day friends! It has been a few weeks since I posted, so let’s do a little catch up. A lot has been going on, some of it good. We got to see all our kids, at one place and one time even. That is fantastic. The bad part is that we were together…

Fun With Flour

In last week’s column I mentioned that I was going to take a 4 day Virtual Artisan Baking at Home class from the King Arthur Baking School. Since I figured I many as well just keep on baking, I added a Rustic Spring Tarts session on Saturday. So I spent the week flinging flour, literally….