Tag: travel

  • Packing, Passports, and Paws

    Traveling with 2 dogs required another checklist of items. We are getting to the final steps and have to consider the packing, passports, and paws of the journey. The airport I was leaving from Teterboro, NJ was 6 hours by car. The flying regulations for the dogs were that they…

  • France here we come!

    Well we have arrived in France!! It’s been a little over a week since we’ve been here. The dogs, Lily and Lucy and I have started to settle in our new “home” for the next seven weeks on the French Riviera.  The trip was filled with unexpected turns of events. The…

  • A Little About Me

    Hello, my name is Soraya and as of mid-April I have retired from work and stepped into the world of retirement. I am in the process of embarking on a brand new adventure moving to France in Mid October. I am ready to fully embrace this new chapter and wanted to…

  • Considerations For Retirement

    I think it is interesting to reflect how for both men and women retirement has changed throughout decades. Women in the U.S. were not able to have their own checking account until 1974.  It’s hard to believe that was not that long ago. Technically, women were able to open a…

  • A Friend Through All Seasons: Through Thick & Thin

    As I am writing this blog, my trip to France is only a month away. When I started counting down there were 66 days left. Having but  a month left before the trip, a dear friend, who has been a friend through all the seasons, and I decided to squeeze…

  • Hello World!

    Hello World!

     Hello world! I am embarking on an altogether new phase of my life, retirement. Anyone who is interested in reawakening forgotten dreams or would like to make changes to their life this blog is for you.  Whether you want to make a change in your daily schedule, your weekly schedule,…