TUESDAY 6TH MAY 2025 Our Amtrak train attendant woke us about half an hour before our San Antonio arrival. Bill and I had slept together on the bottom bunk of our bedroom compartment. Although snug, it's roomy enough for two, but, as usual when having an early call on your mind, it had been hard … Continue reading A Day in San Antonio: Riverwalk Adventures
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Discovering San Antonio: A Trolley Adventure
WEDNESDAY 7TH MAY 2025 This photo is for fellow blogger Don Ostertag (with an explanation to follow). Preamble: It's been a year since our 7-week trip to the States, and I never finished blogging about it. Now I'm attempting to recapture that travel experience. By this point of the adventure, we'd arrived on 22nd April … Continue reading Discovering San Antonio: A Trolley Adventure
Insights from a Day in San Francisco: Marriage Licenses, Public Transport, and Local Culture
FRIDAY 25TH APRIL 2025 With a marriage scheduled to take place in about thirty hours, the first order of this day was to get a Marriage License. This saw us accompanying the bride- and groom-to-be to a County Clerk's office. We drove to Contra Costa County in Martinez, California. I have no idea why. It … Continue reading Insights from a Day in San Francisco: Marriage Licenses, Public Transport, and Local Culture
GWEN WILSON, Author, aka The Reluctant Retiree 