Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

A-Basin mountain time, Colorado

Wow. I really need to make this blog more of a priority... but with a full-time job, trying to fit in travels along with that, aaaand preparing to move back to the States (and find a JOB!)... I just haven't kept up.

I've been on two rather big travel trips since being home in the States over the winter holidays... so I want to finish up my winter holiday times and share my travels (including southern Italy in the Puglia region and, most just last week: traveling to Luxemourg, Strasbourg, and Amsterdam!).

OK ---- Go! ---->

While in Colorado after the lovely New Year spent up in Estes Park, I got to go on another mountain trip with my brother, Lenny, to A-Basin! He went snowboarding for the morning, so I decided to practice the sport that I invented years ago: high altitude reading (hahaha).


I love a trip to the mountains! On this one, I took the chairlift part-way up the mountain, went into the lodge, put my slippers on, and read.   : )  Perrrrfection.



Lenny came and got me mid-way through the morning and I rode another chairlift all the way to the top of the mountain. What a glorious view!! We were overlooking the other side of the mountain (from where we had parked and gone up). I love taking in an amazing view.




Lenny!

I was the ONLY person riding the chairlift DOWN. Hahaha. In passing, one guy actually called out to me: "Enjoying the view, eh?!" Haha. It was a great morning -- although I wish I had packed/worn more than just jeans and my rain boots.

Also on my way down, I was able to watch Lenny in action -- that was cool. He stopped every now and then to wait up for me to pass on the chairlift, which was moving much slower than he was.

I had just decided the night before to get up early and go with Lenny on this jaunt -- afterwards, I realized that we should have at least called our brother, Sean, to see if he'd be free and want to meet up there too! ...Next time, Sean!

Sunday, December 7, 2014

...don't share reading??


This advertisement for a newspaper was in the Berlin airport.

I like it.

Yet it seems a bit odd to me.

...Are they attempting to get the message across that each person should buy their own copy of the newspaper? (I hope so... otherwise it seems to me that they don't want people to share...)

:P

Sunday, November 23, 2014

walking around Brussels...

Brussels is a nice city... although I'm glad we had time to also go to Bruges for a day-trip... it is nice to be able to see such different parts of Belgium! I'd like to get back some day and see more. Below are photos taken while we were out and about in Brussels:

Reading and enjoying the sunshine  : )

Cute...

I love this street art!

The flowers and buildings are equally gorgeous...

(one end of the Grand Plaza...)


Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Kathmandu - readers!

I caught a couple people reading... AND... just up the street from Sarah's house in Kathmandu, there is a school: Radiant Readers' Academy... I love it! The school's buses say Radiant on the front.   : )

Reading while sitting on a temple in Durbar Square:

Reading the newspaper while waiting for the day's next customer:


I read a bunch on the trip as well... below are photos from one of my favorite spots! The Garden of Dreams is an oasis within the city... near the backpacker area of Thumel... and I sat for a couple hours, reading my book, sipping an iced coffee, and then a lovely salad for lunch:



AND... reading while grazing... while Michael and I took a day-hike!