The title of this post reflects the two things that I kept saying over and over again yesterday to the point of embarrassment. I was an English major. I have a PhD in English language and literature, but somehow I was at a loss for words and just kept repeating those words over and over….

When I woke up on the train yesterday, we weren’t moving. I found out later that we were delayed because there had been a power problem at one of the crossings and that we were behind another train that needed to go through. It was completely dark because I wake up really early even on…

This was a blogpost that technically should have been posted two evenings ago (January 9), but I learned that there is very little to no internet or cell service on the train when you are between towns. So when I’m on the train, I will not be able to post. I started writing this last…

I’m going to apologize up front. My pictures from yesterday are not that good. It’s kind of hard taking a picture while you’re holding an umbrella, especially if you’re on a suspension bridge that is moving–a lot. More on that later. I know I said I was going on a train trip, but my first…

I had planned to do another post before leaving Massacusetts, but it was a difficult week. I would have been happy to get to the end of it even if I didn’t have a trip at the end. Friday really was doing meetings all day and trying to finish packing and watering the plants before…

In 2015, I did a travel blog for my trip to England with the English to England program that I started at the university where I work (http://englishtoengland2015.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-countdown-to-departure.html). I did the blog because that was the assignment I gave my students who were going on the trip. Most of them had never left the country…