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Long Time but I' m Back today

Hello New found world, how the heck are ya? Me, I doing pretty good I have been riding my bike back and forth to my dear old Grandmas Place to visit and Help her this week. Life and Aging present all types of challenges, especially when ---one is at the top of there life and needs a lot more help. Its the same thing for a brand new baby. The obstacles present themselves and time gets lost in the transaction. Everything takes more effort, more disipline, more attention, more encouragement and even more breath.. I am humblily experiencing what its like to care for a person who is dying, we all have to do it and and well none of us gets out alive, so, I guess I have been some~how preparing for my own death and overlooked what its like for other people, Not that I am anywhere near tapping out or leaving this game .. the brilliant game of life, but I have to process how the ageing and limitations are affecting my sweet Grandma and Her Children and Me and everyone that helps maintain a s...

Left brussels, Dublin, Wa D.C. and made it to PDX

Yes its official on the temporary scale, I am back in the USA. But my bag was still in Dublin last night. That BAG, let me tell you it has an international mind if its own, going everywhere with out me. they are fedex'ing tonight to Oregon after in arrives in Boston. Thats good. the flights were long the food was bad the movies we not worth much but, I made ahead of schedule Til i am more motivated to write and awake. tot ziens Melisa

everything is grand and golden

My luck runneth over this trip, I really found everthing i was needing and then some, I was recieved so well and had a spectacular time and made wonderful friends and lasting memories, three months is a terrific time to get to know a place especially this place because of the access to cars, apartments, food and family and friends technically very easy. But now I go back to the US for 3.5 months and try to get a grasp on my life in the fast lane and figure out how to live and work in belgium.

gearing down to make an exit

these images taken when i got off the beaten track litterally and found a recently flooded river.

made it to Nieuwpoort, nice little coast get away

moulin rouge, paris

more from paris

the basilica de sacre coeµr,also the cemetery and some lasting head stones