This week ‘back’ in The Pearl – July 3, 2026


As we do so often on Friday mornings, we are both sitting at the table writing our blogs, it is a familiar routine. Last Friday was our last day in Paris so we went to lunch with Shirley and Jim at Marcello, it was a perfect place to wrap up all the good times we…

TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – June 30, 2026


“It went by so fast,” I said, as I rolled over to go to sleep last night. Almost two months in Europe is now behind us and we are heading home today. Yesterday afternoon, I sat at the cafe in front of our hotel in Helsinki, on a pedestrian street, and did this sketch looking…

This week “not” in The Pearl – June 25, 2026


It is hard to think that next week I will be posting from The Pearl. It has been quite a journey with a lot of memories. Tricia is posting about our time in Kotor today. Our apartment in Paris is in a perfect location, in a Haussmann style building, just a block from Gare Montparnasse….

A repost from 2019 – Change is in the works


This was my post seven years ago today, it just seemed fitting to repost it today, from Paris. COVID delayed our plans to move to France by a couple of years. January 1994 at the Holiday Inn in Racine, Wisconsin to May 2, 2019 at this Best Western in Silverdale, Washington – 26 years, five…