Category Archives: Off the Beaten Path

Holiday Down Memory Lane. Visit to The Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya

In the summer of 2016 we visited family in Kenya, but before heading home to the coastal city of Mombasa we made a detour to stop at the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi.

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Holiday Down Memory Lane. Releasing Baby Turtles into the Ocean in Punta Mita, Mexico

Hello hope your’e having a great week and are ready for the long weekend. With so many of us traveling to places far and near, I thought let me share some adventures from our previous holidays. Especially since we aren’t traveling this summer – we have a wedding in the family. Our eldest daughter is getting married this summer 💐! Back to this post. This is one of my all time favorite holiday experiences that I would love to share again! Enjoy!!

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Friday Flowers. Magic Pink Carpet at Pacific Grove, Monterey County

Happy Friday! Hope you had a great week. Today I am so excited to share with you these beautiful pics of a walk on the bluff at Pacific Grove to admire the carpet of prink ice plants in spring bloom.

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Hiking Fortini Loop at Stiles Ranch Open Space Preserve

Hello and Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Relaxing? Fun? Ours was pretty low key, kinda lazy especially with our spring like weather in the warm 70s we were just soaking it all in. I actually got in a beautiful hike last week at Fortini Loop in the South Bay so I didn’t feel too bad lazing around on the weekend.

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Friday Flowers. Breakfast at Clifton Nursery in Little Venice, London

When we were on holiday in London back in December of 2019 I got a post from a fellow blogger herbalbessingblogs on a little nursery in the city with a charming cafe on the premises. It was a historic nursery which had been given a makeover. Did someone say nursery? I’m there!

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