by Gerri Almand | Jul 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Our Bat Boondoggle A million-and-a-half bats in a feeding frenzy? I couldn’t pass on the promise of such a sight. Before we arrived in Austin, Texas, I’d read that Mexican Free-tailed bats made nests under the bridge on South Congress Avenue. They’d arrive annually in...
by Gerri Almand | Jul 1, 2021 | Travel Stories, Uncategorized
RV Reluctance has been my schtick for over five years. So how did it happen that I’m now living full time in a motorhome? Flash back to 2015: “I think we should buy an RV and travel the country,” my excited husband said. “You want me to leave my garden, my orchids,...
by Gerri Almand | Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Missing Woodstock, that quintessential rock festival in the Catskills back in 1969, still leaves a hole in my soul. I should have been there. I’d been a student then at Florida State University in Tallahassee, partying hard but somehow managing to stay on track for...