Monday's Postcard: Warner Springs Ranch

I can't rave enough about this resort in Southern California. It was wonderful. Outside San Diego, if you have the chance, it is definitely worth a visit. Ryan and I stayed here for a few days while he was hiking the PCT.

Monday's Postcard: Aukland

A postcard from my Dad from 1994, featuring the Aukland ferry terminal. I must say that New Zealand is fabulous and if I could I would live there in a heartbeat!

Monday's Postcard: Norfolk

That's a Piedmont Airplane in the photo! I miss layovers like Norfolk, Roanoke, Louisville, TriCities, Savannah and Charleston, but I have to say that I like to work the long haul flights a lot more than the short hops.

Wild Card: Sauvie Island

Today's Wild Card is from a date that Ryan and I had when we first started going out! He took me to this Corn Maze outside of Portland, OR! It's a wonderful thing to do this time of year.

Monday's Postcard: Mexico

From my Granny, the mountains in Mexico. Is it any wonder I have the wanderlust when so many of my family members traveled so extensively!!

 And for Ryan's Progress...he is most likely in Santiago de Compostela today!! On 10/5, he was only 3 days walk away. But you know Ryan, he isn't really stopping there, he plans to continue on to the ocean, like they do in the movie, The Way.



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A = Le Puy on 8/12 B= Aumont-Aubrac pm 8/14 C=Aubrac on 8/15 D= Figeac on 8/19 E=Cahors on 8/22 F=Moissac on 8/24 G= Auvillar on 8/25 H= Montréal-du-Gers, France on 8/28 I= Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France on 9/4 J= Pamplona, Spain on 8/8 K= Estella, Spain on 8/10 L= Santo Domingo, Spain on 8/14 M= Burgos, Spain on 9/17 N= Villalcazar de Sirga, Spain on 9/20 O= Sahagun, Spain on 9/22 P= Calzadilla de lost Hermanillos on 9/23 Q= Mansilla de los Mullas on 9/24 R= Leon on 9/25 S= Molinaseca on 9/28 T= Triacastela on 10/2 U= Palas de Rei on 10/5

Books I read in September 2012

A river of books!

Here's what I read in September:



Accidents of Providence by Stacia M. Brown (library) the law case stuff bogged it down for me
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman (library) enjoyed (sad)
Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart (library) very cute memoir if you like Elizabeth Berg type stuff
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty (library) Highly recommend. Loved it. Louise Brooks leaves Kansas for dance classes in NYC when she is 15 years old. This is the story of her chaperone.
All That I Am by Anna Funder   (library) Pre-WWII, Hitlers rise to power exiling, imprisoning and killing his political enemies.
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter  (library) enjoyed
Deep Blue Goodbye by John D MacDonald just for fun
Nightmare in Pink by John D MacDonald trying to read these in order now, still enjoy them after all these years
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (library) about a girl with cerebral palsy who just wants to be normal
The 500 by Matthew Quirk (library) it got great reviews and was compared to the Firm, but I thought it was just okay
Insurgent by Veronica Roth (library) 2nd in this YA series
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom   reread cause went to see her house in Holland on my Amsterdam layover
Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann (library) 1950's housewife angst-enjoyed it-reminded me of story lines on Mad Men
Criminal by Karin Slaughter (library) thriller
Where'd you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (library) FUN loved the send up of Seattle/land of microsoft!
Imperfect Bliss  by Susan Fales-Hill (library) another FUN read!! Jane Austen style story updated to present day with the filming of a reality TV show??!! Yes it is possible (look what they did with Clueless, the valley girl, Emma)
If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley (library) Like Bill Bryson's book At Home, about why our houses and rooms are the way they are very interesting lots of photos etc
A Play of Issac by Margaret Frazer 1st in mystery series set in 1400's with a troop of players

18 books read this month

Abandoned books:  The Astral by Kate Christensen (library) Couldn't get into it-you were right Alisa! Don't remember who recommended this one or where I read about it, but it did not grab me 

Monday's Postcard: Eygpt

A friend of mine took a cruise up the Nile, this has been on my life list ever since reading Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie!!

An update on Ryan's progress:



View Larger Map A = Le Puy on 8/12 B= Aumont-Aubrac pm 8/14 C=Aubrac on 8/15 D= Figeac on 8/19 E=Cahors on 8/22 F=Moissac on 8/24 G= Auvillar on 8/25 H= Montréal-du-Gers, France on 8/28 I= Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France on 9/4 J= Pamplona, Spain on 8/8 K= Estella, Spain on 8/10 L= Santo Domingo, Spain on 8/14 M= Burgos, Spain on 9/17 N= Villalcazar de Sirga, Spain on 9/20 O= Sahagun, Spain on 9/22 P= Calzadilla de lost Hermanillos on 9/23 Q= Mansilla de los Mullas on 9/24 R= Leon on 9/25