In 2015, we blogged
while walking 500 miles across Spain on a pilgrimage to Santiago de
Compostella. It’s how we transitioned from 35 years in corporate careers to our
new lives in retirement.
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Our pink cottage in Bay St Louis --
Fais Do-Do (means Cajun Dance Party)
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Returning to the US in June 2015 after the Camino, we
settled into our new cottage home on the Mississippi
Gulf Coast near New Orleans.
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Our guest house, Garçonnière,
is right next door.
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We’ve set down roots quickly in our little beach town of Bay
St. Louis -- building wonderful new
friendships, hosting many visitors (40 stays in our guest cottage in the first
year!), throwing lots of parties, and enjoying extended visits with family and
grandkids.
John is active in the community. He joined the local Rotary
Club and Coast Guard Auxiliary. He has breakfast every Friday with a great
group of guys. He crews on a 32-foot Catalina sailboat. And he walks walks at least 5 miles a day.
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2016 Wedding Convalidation on
our 20th Anniversary
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At Easter 2016, I
formally joined the Catholic Church. I
ride my bike to 7 am Daily Mass at Our Lady of the Gulf, just a block from our
house.
For our 20th wedding anniversary, our marriage
was sacramentally convalidated in the Church. Together John and I are learning
to play bridge with two to four hours of lessons every week. We’ve joined the Bay Waveland Yacht Club and
are in the swirl of the Bay’s fun social scene.
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We're up to 7 grandchildren now -- the Vlachs and Jacksons
were able to come to the Bay this summer. We missed
our dear Brocks who just had a new son.
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| Babies, babies, babies! |
As much as we love our new life in Bay St Louis, we’re still
infected with wanderlust – a whole world to explore.
So, in 2016 we’re making another pilgrimage, the Via
Francigena, which is 250 miles of walking through Tuscany to Rome. We’ll cap that off with time in the Swiss Alps
and Paris. And so we begin our traveling blog again ….
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