A Five Week Vacation

Albany, NY
Hello Friends,

The past five weeks has been good. Almost too good. From the blustery lands of Canada we spent two weeks off in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Then a week in Connecticut, two days of workshops in DC followed by pretty much two weeks off again spent with our respective families in Ohio and Pennsylvania again. And now we are in the heart of downtown in Albany, NY.

The sheer amount of off time has been overwhelming. It has been great to spend so much time with family and friends but it also wears on you to know that you are doing a whole lot of hurrying up and waiting. Thankfully, we are back on the road with two weeks (New York and New Jersey) and then ANOTHER week off followed by our last week in Maryland the week before Christmas.

Since there has been a gap on the blog (that happens when one is on vacation) lets recap some highlights of that break:

- Water park fun with family at Kalahari in Sandusky, OH.
- Great food and wine and even better company in Cincinnati, OH.
- Making my niece up like a zombie for Halloween.
- Delicious food at Corky and Lenny's (There is nothing daring about it, just go).
- Meeting Mama Lerew.
- Having a doll filled and enjoyable week in Old Saybrook, CT at The Kate.
- Doing 4 workshops in urban DC for the United States Forestry Service.
- Eating Ethiopian food (that is daring).
- Enjoying home cooked meals in York and Stewartsville, PA
- Celebrating Thanksgiving with my family which, in actuality, is a very rare thing as my family is never near each other on Thanksgiving.

It's been a lot of traveling and in retrospect a lot of eating but it has been worth and the end of tour is looming in the horizon (only three more weeks left!). It's going to be a great time.

The Adventure Continues - ML