Indelible Adventures

Sometimes the best-laid plans fail to come to fruition.   That’s how it turned out on Christmas Eve with my publisher, with a last minute copyright snag that saw me reviewing and signing off on a variety of legal points.    I realize it’s meant to protect the author but a little more notice could of helped! As it was I got all of the legalese put to bed late on the 24 th of December, and unfortunately too late to be put to press…yes, the best-laid plans right?   Soft cover of my upcoming book I got word earlier today that my book has now been placed in the "coming soon" section of my publishers online bookstore, with general publication to follow in the Kindle, Kobo, Apple, Indigo and Barnes & Noble online bookstores within the coming week.  Once I get the final link I will post it to my blog.   For now you can preview it by clicking on this link - Indelible Adventures . Still I'm not too worried or frustrated to be hone...

As I write this week’s blog I’m in the Parlour Car of the Coast Starlight that runs between Seattle in Washington State (Northwest Pacific) and Los Angeles in California.   We arrived into Seattle around lunchtime yesterday after our exceptionally early flight to Vancouver, and our connection to Seattle.   We were up and out the door from home at 4:30 am with our flight leaving at 6:20 am.  As you can imagine we were all very excited with the prospect of our pending adventure. Our route from Seattle to San Diego Both flights were uneventful (always the best type), however the second flight from Vancouver to Seattle was on a small 26-seat propeller plane, which the kids had never experienced so they were a little nervous on our 25-minute from flight from Vancouver to Seattle.   Zach and Sami are very experienced travellers given all the places they've been over the years so only fly with carryon (yes, I've trained them well!)  so once we arrived into Seat...