Our main purpose in going to Mukilteo last week was to help our Parisian friends, Shirley & Jim, sort through their storage unit. Like we did when we moved to France, they got rid of most everything but also kept a lot in a storage unit in Mukilteo. Since they plan to stay in France…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – August 11, 2026
In a recent article, travel personality Samantha Brown wrote about habits that “Mark you as an american tourist immediately.” She emphasized that this was not about “shaming,” it was about cultural tells that say we are from the USA. Samantha calls them “cultural fingerprints” and says “most locals find them more amusing than offensive.” Here…
This week in The Pearl
Kind of a quiet week. At the moment we are in Mukilteo to meet up with our friends from Paris, former neighbors of ours when we lived in Mukilteo, who are back for a few days. On Tuesday, while Tricia was at her book group, I stopped off at Fields and sketched. Tricia is blogging…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – August 4, 2026
“Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people’s travel clothes…” Francis Mayes (Author of “Under the Tuscan Sun”)
This week in The Pearl – July 31, 2026
We are continuing our re-watch of Eugene Levy’s show “The Reluctant Traveler,” it is just as entertaining the second time around. We watched episodes in Spain, and in Mexico. I of course sketched. In one episode he said something that is worth quoting. “You’re never too old to get aquatinted with the world you’re living…
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