It's been quite a year, this 2020. I started out by leaving Cambria CA for good, with plans to travel in the UK and Europe for at least a year, maybe two. Well I got as far as England when COVID19 hit. All plans changed and borders closed. I stayed in England till it looked like the US was going to close its borders to the UK, and I would be stuck past my legal stay. So I came back to the States in May, to Las Vegas. Stayed in a motel a month, found the perfect apartment near the strip, situated near all the conveniences - shopping, grocery, medical facilities, entertainment. restaurants, all of it. I hit the jackpot!
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
2020 A FULL YEAR OF TRAVEL
NOTICE THE LISTINGS OF MY TRAVEL BLOGS TO THE LEFT ... 2020 TRAVELS WILL BE ON THE BLOG AS INDICATED. FIRST POST HERE, A SAMPLE.
Today was the first day of preparation to vacate my beautiful tiny nest, where I’ve lived the past three years. I moved in while remodeling and producing live theatre downstairs - stageplays and music gigs. This last August, I sold the property/buildings and have been renting back the apartment from the new landlord. (Also financed part of the mortgage for him.) Just recently I made the decision to move out and store all my stuff in order to travel the world, or as much of it as I want to see. So today I began the actual process.
Today I cleared items from my closet that I won’t be keeping, don’t want. Tomorrow I’ll do the same with my cabinets, and will take it all to thrift stores, donations. I feel it’s important to start there and it makes packing easier with those items out of the way, rather than doing it while packing. So the next few days ... this week ... I will be focusing on throw-aways and donations.
My itinerary of travel begins January 1, 2020.
Jan 1 - 8
VISALIA, CA
Jan 8 - 15
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Jan 16 - Feb 15
WEYMOUTH UK
Feb 15 - Mar 14
WINCHESTER UK
Mar 14 - Apr 13
RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT
Apr 13 - May 13
WATERFORD, IRE
May 13 - Jun 12
GALWAY, IRE
Jun 12 - Jul 4
ASHBOURNE, IRE
Jul 4 - Aug 3
VERSAILLES, FR
Aug 3 - Aug 27
LE HAVRE, FR
Aug 27 - Sep 4
SOUTHAMPTON UK
Sep 4 - 11
QUEEN MARY 2
Atlantic Crossing to NYC
Sep 14 - Oct 14
CLORIDORME, CAN
Oct 14 - Nov 13
MONTREAL, CAN
Nov 13 - 29
PHOENIX, AZ
More to come later ...
Today was the first day of preparation to vacate my beautiful tiny nest, where I’ve lived the past three years. I moved in while remodeling and producing live theatre downstairs - stageplays and music gigs. This last August, I sold the property/buildings and have been renting back the apartment from the new landlord. (Also financed part of the mortgage for him.) Just recently I made the decision to move out and store all my stuff in order to travel the world, or as much of it as I want to see. So today I began the actual process.
Today I cleared items from my closet that I won’t be keeping, don’t want. Tomorrow I’ll do the same with my cabinets, and will take it all to thrift stores, donations. I feel it’s important to start there and it makes packing easier with those items out of the way, rather than doing it while packing. So the next few days ... this week ... I will be focusing on throw-aways and donations.
My itinerary of travel begins January 1, 2020.
Jan 1 - 8
VISALIA, CA
Jan 8 - 15
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Jan 16 - Feb 15
WEYMOUTH UK
Feb 15 - Mar 14
WINCHESTER UK
Mar 14 - Apr 13
RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT
Apr 13 - May 13
WATERFORD, IRE
May 13 - Jun 12
GALWAY, IRE
Jun 12 - Jul 4
ASHBOURNE, IRE
Jul 4 - Aug 3
VERSAILLES, FR
Aug 3 - Aug 27
LE HAVRE, FR
Aug 27 - Sep 4
SOUTHAMPTON UK
Sep 4 - 11
QUEEN MARY 2
Atlantic Crossing to NYC
Sep 14 - Oct 14
CLORIDORME, CAN
Oct 14 - Nov 13
MONTREAL, CAN
Nov 13 - 29
PHOENIX, AZ
More to come later ...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
I'M STILL HERE!
Oh my goodness! I haven't posted in months. That's what happens when your life is chocked full of happenings and tasks, business and personal, and you lose track of things to do. But what I'm doing as we speak is sorting all my personal tasks, like updating personal websites and posting on social media, posting on my blogs, and scheduling it all. Same as I schedule the business tasks, or am in process of scheduling business tasks. There is a load of them.
I'm lucky though. The Pewter Plough Playhouse staff is taking one by one off my burdened shoulders, about which I'm very happy. I really can turn loose, baby! Oh boy, can I ever! We've come a long way since January. Now I have a wonderful assistant/bookkeeper, production manager, a computer savvy box office/ticketing manager (we've changed POS systems to SQUARE, and all other form systems will be on computer by end of month), lights & sound technicians, IT person, a terrific electrician, and an incredible stage set builder. Did I say how fortunate I am? Now all we have to do is fill the seats to pay for all this! Minor detail.
AND now my dear daughter has entered the fray, she'll be handling the newspaper/Internet event calendar listings. Started this past weekend from her home in San Diego. Even she said, "I didn't know it would be this involved and time-consuming." There we go! That's what I've been feeling as I tried to do all the marketing/advertising myself, as well as our print media for handouts. Just way too much for one person.
So I'll continue to create the print media (posters, flyers, banners, programs, entertainment schedules), I'm pretty particular about that. If someone comes along who can volunteer to do it better or at an acceptable level, then I'll let that go too. We could use more volunteer help with print material distribution to hotels and businesses in Cambria and elsewhere.
My objective with the PPP is to have it run independent of me. Oh, I'll still be around to oversee the business, but I want to focus on my life-long passion, which is writing. Getting close to that now, almost there.
Soooooo ... a big hug and kiss and an even bigger THANK YOU to the staff and volunteers of the Pewter Plough Playhouse!
Merida Nira
Sarah Mosby
Kelly East
Sandy Valois
Catalina Ehinger
Derek Ehinger
Tami Uosikkinnen
Jeremy Main
Lucille Bosco
Gregory Alan Schoonover
and SHEA!
WATCH FOR US IN THE PINEDORADO PARADE SEPTEMBER 2!
I'm lucky though. The Pewter Plough Playhouse staff is taking one by one off my burdened shoulders, about which I'm very happy. I really can turn loose, baby! Oh boy, can I ever! We've come a long way since January. Now I have a wonderful assistant/bookkeeper, production manager, a computer savvy box office/ticketing manager (we've changed POS systems to SQUARE, and all other form systems will be on computer by end of month), lights & sound technicians, IT person, a terrific electrician, and an incredible stage set builder. Did I say how fortunate I am? Now all we have to do is fill the seats to pay for all this! Minor detail.
AND now my dear daughter has entered the fray, she'll be handling the newspaper/Internet event calendar listings. Started this past weekend from her home in San Diego. Even she said, "I didn't know it would be this involved and time-consuming." There we go! That's what I've been feeling as I tried to do all the marketing/advertising myself, as well as our print media for handouts. Just way too much for one person.
So I'll continue to create the print media (posters, flyers, banners, programs, entertainment schedules), I'm pretty particular about that. If someone comes along who can volunteer to do it better or at an acceptable level, then I'll let that go too. We could use more volunteer help with print material distribution to hotels and businesses in Cambria and elsewhere.
My objective with the PPP is to have it run independent of me. Oh, I'll still be around to oversee the business, but I want to focus on my life-long passion, which is writing. Getting close to that now, almost there.
Soooooo ... a big hug and kiss and an even bigger THANK YOU to the staff and volunteers of the Pewter Plough Playhouse!
Merida Nira
Sarah Mosby
Kelly East
Sandy Valois
Catalina Ehinger
Derek Ehinger
Tami Uosikkinnen
Jeremy Main
Lucille Bosco
Gregory Alan Schoonover
and SHEA!
WATCH FOR US IN THE PINEDORADO PARADE SEPTEMBER 2!
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
THE POLITICAL SCENE IN THIS DAY AND AGE
Is it me getting older, or is it the political parties' noise, or the colorful political candidates that have captured my attention this time around? Am I now at the age of watching the news most of my TV viewing moments, like my father, uncles, and grandfathers used to do? The women weren't all that interested, as I recall. They were busy with the kids or households or neighbors or whatever. I don't recall the women showing much interest in politics or sports as I was growing up. And since it wasn't smeared all over the TV, well, it was just different then. However, late in life, my mother became very interested. She and daddy both liked Obama, even though they were Republican they voted for him first time around. So is it my time now to be more into it? Have I reached that age? So it seems. Although, I'm not as interested in sports as mother became.
So ... I watched every minute of the 2016 Republican National Convention, but I find it a struggle to watch every minute of the DNC. I am listening to the individual speeches, I am. After the fact. I don't watch the stuff between them, like I did with the RNC though. It isn't a secret that I'm for Trump, and I'm sure that has something to do with the lack of interest in the DNC. But I made a promise to myself to listen to what they have to say, no commenting or criticism, unless there's something worthy of reiteration.
As a Republican, I did vote for Bill when he was a candidate and Obama later on. So you might say, I vote for the person, not the party. In listening to Bill Clinton's speech this time around, it was a bit on the light side, quickly delivered, a chronological rendering of Hilary's life with him, but done with humor in his beloved style. I wonder how he really feels ... Was he caught up with all the indiscretions later on just because he was a man in a powerful position and had to have a few women on the side, as some men do? Was he really in love with her, or did he see a political partner in her from the onstart? All the while he was talking I was wondering about that. How much of it was genuine.
Michele Obama's speech was the usual that she gives ... Beginning sentences with "see ..." So it appears she's speaking directly not reading ... Saying things that play on sympathies and pull the heartstrings. She's pretty good at that. She knows how to speak. Both she and Obama are orators, and they'll make a mint on the speakers' circuit after they're out of office, just like the Clintons do now. I wonder what is in the future for Michele, I sort of feel her political days aren't over. I mean, they are staying in Washington, they aren't leaving. Gonna live in the East. Hummmmm.
Again, I can't get as excited about the DNC offerings as much as I feel for the RNC. Just isn't the same or better for me. Guess it's because I'm definitely on the Trump Train, still. Tired of the same ol' same ol'. It just might be better with Trump leading us. We won't know till we try him out, and there are enough safe-guards if you're worried about some of the stuff the opposition seems to be afraid of. I believe he'll do what has to be done to fix our economy and infrastructure, to prevent illegals crossing our borders, to eradicate ISIS, and to fix our trade agreements in our favor. PLUS, the biggies ... Rebuild our military and our country's law enforcement. Jobs and healthcare are on his agenda too, you can bet on that one.
Talk to you later ....
Rebecca B.
So ... I watched every minute of the 2016 Republican National Convention, but I find it a struggle to watch every minute of the DNC. I am listening to the individual speeches, I am. After the fact. I don't watch the stuff between them, like I did with the RNC though. It isn't a secret that I'm for Trump, and I'm sure that has something to do with the lack of interest in the DNC. But I made a promise to myself to listen to what they have to say, no commenting or criticism, unless there's something worthy of reiteration.
As a Republican, I did vote for Bill when he was a candidate and Obama later on. So you might say, I vote for the person, not the party. In listening to Bill Clinton's speech this time around, it was a bit on the light side, quickly delivered, a chronological rendering of Hilary's life with him, but done with humor in his beloved style. I wonder how he really feels ... Was he caught up with all the indiscretions later on just because he was a man in a powerful position and had to have a few women on the side, as some men do? Was he really in love with her, or did he see a political partner in her from the onstart? All the while he was talking I was wondering about that. How much of it was genuine.
Michele Obama's speech was the usual that she gives ... Beginning sentences with "see ..." So it appears she's speaking directly not reading ... Saying things that play on sympathies and pull the heartstrings. She's pretty good at that. She knows how to speak. Both she and Obama are orators, and they'll make a mint on the speakers' circuit after they're out of office, just like the Clintons do now. I wonder what is in the future for Michele, I sort of feel her political days aren't over. I mean, they are staying in Washington, they aren't leaving. Gonna live in the East. Hummmmm.
Again, I can't get as excited about the DNC offerings as much as I feel for the RNC. Just isn't the same or better for me. Guess it's because I'm definitely on the Trump Train, still. Tired of the same ol' same ol'. It just might be better with Trump leading us. We won't know till we try him out, and there are enough safe-guards if you're worried about some of the stuff the opposition seems to be afraid of. I believe he'll do what has to be done to fix our economy and infrastructure, to prevent illegals crossing our borders, to eradicate ISIS, and to fix our trade agreements in our favor. PLUS, the biggies ... Rebuild our military and our country's law enforcement. Jobs and healthcare are on his agenda too, you can bet on that one.
Talk to you later ....
Rebecca B.
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