I’m guessing most of you didn’t know that today is National Shoe The World Day? Each day, over 500 million children, teens and adults around the world do not have a pair of shoes to wear, and despite the terrain and the climate, they have to walk barefoot everywhere....

  (view of the Marina from our room) Our last stop in Africa was to Cape Town South Africa.  Our travel from Rwanda to Cape Town was a total of 19 hours from the time we left the lodge in Rwanda, until arriving at Cape Grace Hotel. Cape Grace...

Our next stop was Rwanda do to some Gorilla Trekking.  We had no idea what to expect. Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge our home for the next 2 days was set within a forest high in the mountains of Rwanda.  The trek to our cottage alone was a workout that I...

If you started following my African adventures then you’ve already read Part 1 on the Northern Serengeti, Tanzania.  Quite the experience and one that if you haven’t had the opportunity to read, and view my photos, I hope you’ll do it now. After visiting the Northern Serengeti we hopped...

An African Safari has been on my bucket list ever since my husband and son went some 10+ years ago.  So when my daughter called saying she had vacation time coming, asking if anyone wanted to go, I said I’d love to! With little time to spare my son chimed in...

Super Bowl is this weekend. Since I shared healthy game day recipes last week, I decided to share my All Beef Chili with Espresso today. 

I had to take a slight break from posting the past couple of weeks. I managed to come down with the respiratory flu.  Thank goodness I was ready for it from my previous post.  Still, it was no picnic!  I’m thrilled to be back to share some game day...

Flu Season is here!!! Monday night my daughter called at almost midnight from Minneapolis. “Mom I’m so sick!” As she described in vivid detail waking me out of a deep sleep, my own stomach started feeling queasy.