Yes, you’re right that they do have their use. I pile them up during the day for when I want to sit on the bed with my laptop. Everything in its place. 🙂

Oh, a girl after my own heart! I love being left in the hotel all day to read and write while hubby does his thing out in the world. I can take it day after day. Not many people understand, but you obviously do! 🙂

Love your attitude, Kathy. And glad you were nicely surprised with those pillows. 🙂 The best pillows I’ve had in years were in Cleveland, Ohio, while we were staying in a hotel nearby the Cleveland Clinic for my f-i-l’s heart surgery. They had the obligatory fat pillows, but then these wonderful ones that went flat when you lay on them. Wanted to take them home with me.

You’ve read more of Emily’s book than I have–I’ve only read the excerpts so far, but I do hope to get the whole book soon and read it all. I love her stories and her heart.

One of my favorite things on our trips is so much time together in the car. We laugh, sing, listen to podcasts, or I just read, read, read and occasionally share something with Jeff. He’s an awesome and easy-going traveling companion. 🙂 But he likes flat pillows too. ha. On this last trip I just slept without a pillow the whole time. It worked well enough.

I agree with you totally that one of the best things about traveling is having “time off.” Not having to cook is my favorite. 🙂 But no house cleaning, no clothes washing, etc, are nice too.

I have to watch my “observations” especially in the extreme temps of summer and winter. It just comes so naturally to step outside and immediately say it’s SO hot or SO cold–because it is. ha. Still. The attitude with which it’s said (or thought) makes the difference between complaining and observing I suppose.

A little at a time…that’s enough. Others may not understand our pace, but that’s okay. 🙂 God knows what is courageous to us.

I smiled at your list of idiosyncrasies, Sharon. 🙂 Thanks for being honest. We all have our things. It’s always interesting to travel with others to discover their quirks too (and have our own exposed!).

I think differently about bedspreads now too. I wonder if I was better off when I was ignorant though. ha. I definitely check and double check and triple check before we leave too. Yet “we” (I’ll take part of the blame) still left my husband’s cell phone charger last week plugged into the wall at the hotel. I didn’t think to check the plugs! Next time I will though.

You’re a tent camper too? It’s been a few years since we’ve been, but that’s how we always camped. Not too many of us left though. Even back then we were usually surrounded by more and more motor homes and fewer and fewer tents.

Jeff loves going to the “hole in the wall” places too. Sometimes I do; sometimes I don’t. It depends on exactly what the hole looks like. ha. We found a couple places on this trip though and all were good!