Potpourri ...
... Otherwise known as almost the end-of-the-season catch-all. We had a lot of busy days here at the Canal Cottage this season and most of those days were filled with repair and renovation projects....
View ArticleFly Away Home
Yes, it's time to close things down here on the Canal and head back to Oregon. So FullTime-Life is on a planned blog break for the rest of June. We're taking the long way home and doing some...
View ArticleHome -- with memories
We're back in Oregon and happy to be home. We took pretty much the exact opposite of a short-cut to get here and had a wonderful time doing it. Coming in for the landing I'm still sorting...
View ArticleRiver Elbe cruise, Part 1
We spent more days in beautiful Prague than all of the rest of our trip put together and we loved every minute of it. Below is the apartment building where we stayed (top row) and, in the lower row,...
View ArticleVisit to Prague Castle
Prague Castle is actually a 1900 foot long series of courtyards, churches, and palaces covering 750,000 square feet. Buildings include the seat of government of the Czech Republic. Our trolley stop...
View ArticleMuseum, Library, and a couple more towers
In the interest of trying to finish blogging about our June travel before the rest of the summer is over, I am combining three places we visited in Prague. They each deserve more time and space, but...
View ArticlePresent at the Oregon Coast ...
(... or a present of the Oregon Coast. ) I've been blogging about our June trip to far-away shores and still have more to remember about that vacation, but this week is all about the present -- or at...
View ArticleSummer before it sizzled
Eugene Oregon is seriously HOT right now. We are also under a hazardous air quality alert because of a wildfire in the eastern sections of Lane County, so I'm posting some memories from the earlier...
View ArticleRiver Elbe Cruise Part 2 (after Prague)
In blogland (as opposed to real life here in Oregon) we are time-traveling back to June. After our days spent on our own in the Czech Republic, the Viking River Cruise we had scheduled began with a...
View ArticleA few days in Newport
We spent another few days on the Oregon Coast last week. This time we drove North on the Coast Highway to the busy port city of Newport. The c0ast route between Florence and Newport is beautiful....
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