Monday, April 4th — After another fabulous long weekend in Chicago and lots more celebrating and partying which I’ll write about soon, we are now at Mom’s up here in Appleton where we’ll spend a few days visiting with her and my sister and her family. It’s basketball weekend, and as I write this post …
Christmas is now over, but as this blog is also the journal for our life on the road, I wanted to capture and share a few bits of our wonderful Christmas holidays so that friends and family members who check in with us regularly here on our website can see what all we did. We …
Clearly I’ve been on hiatus, but I honestly hadn’t planned to be away from my keyboard this long! I hope my readers aren’t thinking I gave up on our travel chronicles — I couldn’t do that!! Since leaving Texas on December 2nd, I’ve been in Amsterdam and Bruges with our niece Kelsey who just finished up …
Congratulations to our college graduate, Kelsey Ann Kramer! After four years at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and then one final semester of study abroad in Granada, Spain, to hone her Spanish-speaking skills, our niece [who’s also my goddaughter] Kelsey graduated yesterday! She majored in Spanish as she wants to be bi-lingual, but took a full load …
Thank goodness for replays on www.ncaa.com! We were out in Santa Fe last night with our Chicago girlfriends who have flown out here to visit us and spend a long weekend together. As timing would have it, the Sweet 16 Wisconsin – UNC game started right about the time we were into our second cocktail. With …
Remember that Peaches & Herb song from the late ’70s, Reunited? Maybe not, but music and lyrics savant that I am, I do, and the tune & lyrics fit. We Jollys have reunited with Charley today and it feels so good! Wayne, Chris, and all the guys at Dynamic Truck Repair in Columbia, SC, did a …
(Sing it with me…) Reunited and it Feels so Good!! Read More »
July 24 – We’re on our way east now, making our way ultimately to New England to enjoy the fall colors. We’ve left the Canadian border where we’ve had difficulty obtaining cell service and/or good internet connection for nearly two weeks, and admittedly we’re happy to have access to GoogleMaps and other modern tools and …
July 8-11 — Per my sister Kirsten we were not allowed to call this a “camping” trip for fear of setting the bar of the girls’ future camping trips too high, so instead we referred to this as our “glamping” trip ~ glamorous camping. We spent three fantastic days with our nieces Elizabeth & Natalie …
June 30-July 6 — Mix all this and what do you get? three BFFs who have turned or are soon turning 50 their families & additional family members two lake houses in the north woods of Wisconsin five 4-wheelers and lots of mud party floats for all a jetski & kayaks two pontoon boats a …
