See what I did there with that title? Set myself up for failure. Being witty on demand is harder than you might think. Go ahead. Try it. Arriving in Instabul was a shock to the senses. After a week of being pampered and catered to on our cruise, we were thrust back into the real world…

We’re back to voting to decide this week’s Photo of the Week! Photo A: Baby coconuts growing outside my front door. Simple but fun. Post B: A shrine, also outside my place! (I guess I didn’t venture very far this week.) Photo C: This is my favorite but Mark turned his nose up, hence the voting…

Forty years ago this summer, my maternal Grandmother traveled from her home town of Decatur, Illinois, to explore the islands of Greece. The year was 1971 and she had lost her husband the winter before. She traveled with two couples, and took a very similar route to the one that my Mom and I (her daughter…

Our time in Greece was over, but that didn’t mean our cruise was. We had one more stop before disembarking in Istanbul, at the port town of Kusadasi. Our ship docking next to a behemoth one Kusadasi itself didn’t receive rave reviews- and by that I mean people refer to it as a total dump. The…

That whole voting thing we did to pick last week’s Photo of the Week was really fun. (And thanks to all that voted. You guys really like seeing me get the beat down!) Should we make it a regular feature? Let’s put it to a poll! (Ha.) This week was a close one considering I photographed…

Mykonos, our last stop in the Greek islands, is not exactly known as a “day” destination. This is an island that roars to life when the sun goes down… which is exactly when our ship would be pulling away towards Turkey. Since Mykonos isn’t exactly known as a cultural destination either, we decided to use this…