Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there…Have a beautiful day!…Expectations….
Could this Yellow Candle flower be more exquisite with its white blooms? Special days such as Mother's Day and Father's Day...
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Tom’s Story Archive
A collection of our daily travel stories, food discoveries, wildlife encounters, and life on the road.
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Drinking alcohol in Morocco…Not readily available in Islamic countries…
Baskets of spices outside a spice shop in the souk. Tom is not a big drinker. On occasion, if readily available, he...
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Come see the gifts we’ve received for Christmas…Tom’s Irish Cream Recipe…Christmas in the bush…
` With no Poinsettias for us this year, we revel in the beauty of this flower that we encountered on a walk...
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Tom’s retirement party was a year ago…Photos…Problematic ATMs in Kenya…Suggested reading for the medically curious…
This photo was taken the night of Tom's retirement party on October 27, 2012. At this point, we only used our...
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Tom’s online football experience…
The haze in the hills continues day after day with the high humidity. After signing up at NFL.com in order to watch...
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Giving up favorite pastimes…For Tom, not the Minnesota Vikings…
Several months ago, Tom canceled his subscription to the Minneapolis StarTribune newspaper due to its inability to be downloaded several days...
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A walk on the beach…Changing our ways…
This photo of Tom clearly depicts our quiet, contemplative, uncomplicated lives, relatively free of stress. Tom always jokes that he never imagined that his...
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Tom, outside the box, eating Oysters Rockefeller, the last night…
Talk about "trying new things!" Tom, the pickiest eater on the planet, actually enjoyed these Oysters Rockefeller aboard ship, the last...
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From couch potato to world traveler…Happy birthday to my husband…
A hard-working, dedicated man, helper around the house, a supporter of my every whim, compassionate to my every sorrow, and infinitely able...
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Tom’s day for tests…
Most often I write the post for this blog every other morning. This morning, as typical for medical procedures, we must be...
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