500 Saturdays: Nomad Diary

Darrell Making Pancakes in Our West Vancouver Airbnb A Dinner I Made: Wild Salmon with Lemon and Cheese, Asparagus, Sweet Potatoes Saturday. 23. We stayed in our airbnb all day! Yes! We have days like this! Yesterday was sunny and we hiked over 8 miles! It was amazing, and led to today as a recovery day. We spent considerable time on the computer and phones reading and typing. I did laundry. Darrell made pancakes for breakfast we had strawberries and dark coffee too. I spilled the maple syrup but could cover up the spill and delay full clean up until after our meal. For lunch we made salads and elaborated with bacon and boiled eggs. For dinner we baked wild salmon and had asparagus and sweet potatoes on the side. We enjoy our food. We ate well today. I stuck my head out the door a couple of times. It’s cold today in the 50’s. It has rained all day too. We played a classical music channel on the tv all day. It’s been a nice recovery day. We even had a phone call with Eric a...

Darrell and Quinn with His Stuffie Green Dinosaur Named Chomp in a Freeport, Maine Shoe Store Sunset Over Lake at Portland, Maine Saturday. 16. We did a tough 40 minute exercise routine this morning. Had our normal morning breakfast and visited some before getting busy looking for stays in New Zealand for November and December. More in Nomad Notes below. It’s been overcast and cool and windy today. The hurricane weather seems to be farther out at sea and passing by Portland easily. Sunday. 17.  We walked 2-plus miles to church this morning. We enjoyed the walk and stopped along the way for a pastry and coffee. At church we learned that Marsha had been in the hospital all week. She is getting better and is likely to go home today. Her husband Tom was there and preached an encouraging lesson on Psalms 3. After worship we went to lunch with Patrick and Gemma. We enjoyed hearing about their recent trip to the Philippines where Gemma emigrated from about 30 years ago to marr...