Several members of our family decided to spend Christmas in San Felipe, where our oldest son has a vacation house. San Felipe is a small, sleepy fishing village on the east coast of the Baja Peninsula, 125 miles south of Calexico. The area had changed from the one and only other time my husband, John, and I had visited, 20 years earlier. At one point, we went into the village to a restaurant for dinner, where we had what my son said was his favorite meal while in San Felipe. The dish was the Seven Seas Soup served at Chuy’s.
It is a good time of the year for a road trip to Cincinnati, Ohio. “The Queen City” has a lot to offer visitors in the way of history, nature, and shopping.
This is the ‘tween season. Not enough snow for winter fun, not enough sunny days for hiking and the like, but it is perfect for spending an hour or two in a local museum. Dedicating an entire day to visiting a museum may be difficult to schedule but adding an hour to a shopping excursion is easy. It is a good way to visit the museum that has been on your “must-do” list. A visit to many local museums can be accomplished in an hour or so.
Las Marias is the last village on the Rio Platano River in Honduras. Beyond Las Marias there is only the rainforest. John and I, with our son and guides, traveled for many hours from the coast up the Rio Platano to Las Marias in a motorized dugout. The forest looked untouched with just a few long-legged egrets now and then. The only human we saw was a man in a dugout loaded with bananas heading down river.
One of the great things about travel is that the memories are always with you. A name, picture, book or movie often summons up wonderful travel experiences. That happened to me recently. The book “The Lost City of the Monkey God” by Douglas Preston was on the New York Times best seller list. While reading it I had flashback images of our adventure to the area of the Monkey God.
Did you ever feel the call of the sea? Or, feel the need to do something different? I did and you can, too. This is the time of the year to plan your summer adventure. Think outside of the box. Somewhere in my distant educational past I had to memorize – and never forgot – the first few lines from John Masefield’s “Sea Fever:”
Hunter Mountain, in the Catskills south of Albany, is usually thought of as a winter destination. And, basically it is, but when there is no snow there are still visitors. When John and I were there we took the chair lift to the top of the mountain for a panoramic view of the area. There is a short trail to a Rip Van Winkle Statue. While I was taking a picture of the statue, a group of teenagers who attended a Hasidic Boarding School stopped to ask what the statue was.
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