For blogging friend extraordinaire, Cynthia Reyes (.com), who I have walked some time in honor of during this hike, here are some pictures of Good Homes seen along the way in France and Spain: To...
https://notesfromahermitage.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/some-pictures-for-cynthia/
It used to be that I left on trips delighted by the sound of rolling suitcase wheels and thrilled by the G-force of the plane’s liftoff into a new adventure. Nowadays, I hoist my backpack and...
https://notesfromahermitage.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/the-journey-begins/
I know, I know……I’ve turned into a Camino bore. The Hermitage has been very quiet all winter, as Hermitages should be. The main activity has been working on getting a 62 year old body ...
https://notesfromahermitage.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/camino-portuguese-with-a-side-of-london-2017/
Forgive me, for I have lapsed into hermit-ness again ……. it has been 9 months since my last post. Thank you to anyone out there who still includes me in their Reader….on opening my own R...
https://notesfromahermitage.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/re-entry/
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Creme de Menthe Parfait (explanation for people born after 1955…..). Occasionally someone in the small mountain town where I live these days mentions a local semi-secret restaurant reputed to s...
https://notesfromahermitage.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/lets-do-the-time-warp-again/
The Bubble – Anne Brigman – 1910 This image caught my eye in a shop when I was in my mid-20’s. I bought a print, and although I’d carried it with me wherever I moved through the years, ...
https://notesfromahermitage.wordpress.com/2015/05/17/anne-brigman-the-bubble-nude-by-waterpool/
Maybe like a lot of people you remember exactly where you were at the onset of the events of 9/11. I was doing morning nursing rounds in a small rural hospital in Western Pennsylvania when one ...
https://notesfromahermitage.wordpress.com/2015/05/06/flight-93-memorial-shanksville-pennsylvania/
When the night train finally arrived in Chiang Mai in the morning, I filed a complaint with the station office. The supervisor, who spoke some English, convincingly conveyed some concern, so th...
https://notesfromahermitage.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/thailand-land-of-smiles-part-7-chiang-mai/
Wat Chai Wattanaram, Ayutthaya I’d gotten my ticket for the Night Train to Chiang Mai (kind of a romanticized tradition for travelers to Thailand) on the day I’d arrived in Bangkok to be sure...