By leighann on Apr 4, 2010 in Life, Travel and WWOOFing, Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Travel UpdateI have been traveling for a while, and I have finally settled down in Friday Harbor, Washington State for the time being. I didn’t get as much Internet time in transit as I had hoped, so I will be posting my hand-written journal entries here, post-dated to when they happened.
By leighann on Mar 22, 2010 in Life, Travel and WWOOFing | 1 Comment
A Night at Charles De Gaulle AirportJust as with Paris itself, the horrible reviews and stories I’ve read about Charles de Gaulle airport seemed completely unfounded. Of course, I had an EU flight on an early Sunday morning. I’m sure other times are more hectic, with more crazies about… It was really easy to get [...]
By leighann on Mar 21, 2010 in Life, Travel and WWOOFing | 1 Comment
A Walk Through ParisI had a nice surprise today… after a 3 hour ride with my now ex-landlord/WWOOF host, he dropped me off in Paris (at the Porte de Dauphine) with a 10 euro bill and a borrowed backpack full of my “valuables”, and a map of Paris, marked with cheap and free points of [...]
By leighann on Mar 11, 2010 in Life, Travel and WWOOFing | 1 Comment
Jumping in With Both FeetIt appears that we might be at the end (almost) of our 10 year saga. After this year we might actually get to go “home” to the US. For the whole story, see my husband’s blog However, the silly thing right now is that the US wants me to prove income [...]
By leighann on Feb 1, 2010 in Nothing Like a Good Book, Reviews | 0 Comments
Book Review: Five Finger Fiction by Brooks SiglerSigler’s “about the author” bio says “Sigler made a New Year’s resolution in 2008 to complete a book. Here it is.” If this is true, I sincerely hope she made a similar resolution in 2009. Thank yous are in order for Mr. Jeffrey MacAdam Sigler, who she mentions [...]
By leighann on Dec 19, 2009 in CinemaPerfect, Reviews | 0 Comments
Movie Review – All About SteveI’m quite surprised to read all the awful reviews about this movie. I thought it was great. Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, a romance, or rather romantic comedy. I expected the standard formula: girl meets boy, girl falls madly in love, boy rejects girl, girl follows boy across the country (ok, [...]