When we left off, we were heading up the river without a paddle. Two hours up the Napo River, then a short walk followed by a half hour paddle through the lagoon. There were paddles, but we were not responsible for using them. Which is a good thing for all concerned. The first part of…
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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….
Dinner by a James Beard Nominee
We don’t eat out a lot, not the two of us anyway. With friends, that’s different. Want to go to burger night, happy hour (which seems to be the fancy way to say “early bird special”), try some new place, just get together? We’re there. But even before the pandemic it wasn’t a frequent thing,…
Dinner at the Inn at Little Washington
Dinner at Inn at Little Washington When our trip to Antarctica was cancelled we made a list of places we might go, looking for something on that mental list of dreams that newly available time and money might finally fulfill. Number one on that list was The Inn at Little Washington. I remember reading about…
Explorer Barb 