by kathpoole | May 17, 2018 | Lessons Learned, San Francisco
Did you know you can go from Oakland to Long Beach in an hour and a half? To go to Long Beach from San Francisco on Southwest Airlines you need to go through Pheonix then Oakland and it takes 7 hours and 15 minutes? What were they thinking?
by kathpoole | May 20, 2015 | Lessons Learned, Luggage Log
Who knows everything about packing? I don’t. Here are some great ideas so you don’t have to learn the hard way. <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/HXj6Sz4eBUU”...
by kathpoole | Mar 13, 2015 | Art Galleries, Lessons Learned, The Rest of the Story
The Dali Lama said, “When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” Last July I ask for stories from people whose credit cards had been compromised while on vacation. What I got back was…nothing. Networking worked and I got one interesting story that I’ll relate below. Each...
by kathpoole | Dec 10, 2014 | Active, Blog 2014, Lessons Learned, Luggage Log, Not For Beginners
“Here, bring it here, Kath,” my husband said as he pulled a suitcase off the shelf. I looked around furtively and rolled the bag over to where he was opening the new one. The zipper on my suitcase was gaping open, never to close again, and there was no time to get...
by kathpoole | Nov 20, 2014 | Churches, Lessons Learned, San Francisco, The Rest of the Story
One of my favorite things to do, when I see a church, is to go in, sit in a pew, close my eyes and see what impressions well up. Recently I did this in the sanctuary of the Church of Saints Peter & Paul Parish in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco....
by kathpoole | Jul 15, 2014 | Blog 2014, Lessons Learned
Someone used our credit card to buy toys at the Target store near San Juan P.R. at the same time our plane was taking off. Someone purchased $800 worth of goods in Campeche, Mexico, 600 miles away from where we were staying. Wells Fargo, rightly, shut down our...
