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Amherst is located in Western Massachusetts, which is known for the close proximity of five well  regarded colleges: Amherst College, Smith College, Mt. Holyoke College, Hampshire College   and the flagship of the state university system U Mass, Amherst.  U Mask, Amherst? Usually there would be thousands of students in the area but each school has significantly scaled back orContinue reading “Our year of living dangerously continues”

So that the site is free for us, there are ads. We don’t benefit from them, neither will you. A rocky start, to our next fugue. Our original plan was to replicate our European fugue either in South America or Europe again, so much to still see https://thechosenfugue.blogspot.com/2020/06/we-will-always-have-frankfurt.html . We still rented out our house with theContinue reading “Driving to the End of the Rainbow”

So that the site is free for us, there are ads. We don’t benefit from them, neither will you.  This was also a pre-WordPress update, sorry for how bad it looks. While we usually post soon after we visit, circumstances this year got in the way.   Revisiting our last stop on this fugue before startingContinue reading “We will always have Frankfurt”

After an exhausting year of traveling, we needed some R&R, a couple of months of relaxation before we hit the road again in Mid-November.So we checked into a rest home. We have spent the last month convalescing with our soon to be 90 year old mother/mother- in-law at her luxurious retirement lodge.  Our day begins leisurely,Continue reading “Living Lodge”

This post was done prior to a WordPress upgrade, looks kinda bad. Ads make this free but no one benefits. It is hard not to sound repetitive. Every place (okay, maybe not Ayia Napa, Cyprus) has us saying, this feels better than home.  Pretty much everywhere has felt safer, more livable than the US (gunContinue reading “Munich”

(this post was in the older format, sorry it looks really bad!) Back to our home away from home, Saarbrucken, to spend a week with A, W, I and Finn and then a week dog-sitting Finn while they went off to a conference in Greece.   After a grueling week of dog-sitting, we needed toContinue reading “Black Forest”

Last minute stop in Budapest as we traveled from Romania back to Germany.Typically, we are able to speed see all a city’s sites in a day or so as they are often within blocks of the town square where we try to stay. Considering we don’t shop and rarely restaurant, this is not usually aContinue reading “The Budapest Marathon”