Archive - 2018

Practically Superstars!

The Lucky Charm was just featured on the PBS series “Arizona Horizon”!  I’d like to say we were contacted because we are just that famously well-known, but actually our manicurist daughter Sarah does the producer’s nails.  🙂  They were chatting and Shana said, “Hey, I’m doing a story on seniors who retire and take up...

Italy, Part 2 of 4: Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, and the Isle of Capri

Leaving Rome for the Amalfi Coast was a strong jolt to the psyche … there are 2.8 million residents of Rome … but only 3,942 residents of our home base, Positano! Positano is the quintessential quaint Italian village, set on steeply terraced hillsides. It doesn’t just LOOK beautiful 24/7 — it even SOUNDS beautiful! (play the video below to...

Italy, Part 1 of 4: All Roads Lead to ROME!

ITALY!  We did NOT go in the R.V., but it was too beautiful to banish from our blog based on a mere technicality. Our trip was 4-in-1: four totally different locales in one spectacular country! Enjoy and be transported through our pictorial journey! Up first:  ROME!  Italy’s capital, a sprawling, cosmopolitan city filled with ancient ruins and...

Jackson, WY: Above It All … and Behind It All

With the Lucky Charm’s return visit to Jackson, Wyoming, we indulged in two wish-list adventures:  rock climbing “above it all” on a Via Ferrata course, and going “behind it all” at a real-life rodeo! “Via Ferrata” literally means “Iron Way” and in the 1800’s, alpine climbers started employing climbing aids such as iron pins and rungs to...

McCall, ID: Doin’ It All … in McCall!

After a brief swing through McCall, Idaho, last summer, we knew a return visit was in the cards!  In 2017, we stayed three days.  In 2018 … two weeks!  That’s how “taken” we were with this place, the mountain version of Goldilocks:  not too big/not too small, not too plain/not too fancy, not too boring/not too touristy...