It's a category or genre, not just pictures for her. Cinque Terra A mushroom of some sort...before and after Bruce poked it. 😝

Cloudy and shorter hike today for our "rest" day. It still had its moments. #55and10

Guess what? It was windy and hot on the trail today. No, really. Really windy. Bruce: eating Cookie's dust again. Cookie: leaving Bruce...

Left before the sun rose over the mountains on another beautiful, sunny, hot day. That means the views are great but the hiking is...

For anyone who thinks what we are doing is slightly bonkers, there are people who run it in less than 20 hours. By "it" we mean 176 km...

Today the trail took us through the village of Les Contamines-Montjoie where we picked up cafe and lunch supplies. Some parts of the...

Off we go! What a perfect day to start a crazy adventure (okay, it was really hot, maybe not quite perfect). It started out in the ski...

Took the train (3 actually...that got less posh and slower as we went along) from Paris to Les Houches. Our room wasn't ready. Pas de...

A short walk toward the Seine brought us to Notre Dame and we spent a couple hours following Rick Steeves audio tuor of historic Paris....

122 Rue Mouffetard So many of our fun times were right in our neighbourhood...rue Moufferard in the Latin Quarter. Aperitif Hour in the...

It seemed like a long day before we even got on the plane. First of all an afternoon flight was a nice feature but then it was delayed by...

We're less than 24 hours away from our next #55and10 adventure. Our first time to Europe together and certainly the first time we've...

Bruce's mom was in town for a week or so. That's always an entertaining family time as we juggle work and visits and family and friends. As is our tradition, the boys each took Oma out for dinner and had a great conversation about life, just like they used to do with their Oma and Opa. This time around, a nephew and his wife surprised Oma...and then all of us with a pregnancy announcement! Beppe is one of Marley's favourites, something she talks about a lot throughout the ye

We're having a fun week of summer activities amidst work. Beautiful moon rise and sunset, owls on the path, snakes on the porch and friends at birthday parties and music in the park! Summertime!!

As we continue to explore Vancouver Island with #cookieshikingadventures we've also kept busy with work and play. Dragonboating with the Navy Dragon Anchors has been a fun way to keep in shape and enjoy a whole other community. We haven't paddled much this year but did end up at the Nanaimo Regatta (VIPaddling). Great times...but windy on the water today. Go Navy! Why the "transitions" title? This is a test of our new blog as part of Directionallycorrect.ca . We're plan