by toby | Jul 15, 2014 | Life
Adventures in travel and friendship have been coming my way, because making new friends and finding old ones seems to be a theme of this trip. Arriving in San Francisco with a week and no agenda has been wonderful! One of my new friends (my lawyer, Sandy Shepard)...
by toby | Jul 14, 2014 | Life
I’m a hick from Hawaii. After the last fifteen years on Maui with its mellow two-to four lane roads, I’ve lost the ability to navigate heavy, multi-lane traffic in new places. On this trip to San Francisco I decided not to rent a car: just save the headaches of...
by toby | Aug 22, 2013 | Life
Glamour weekend at St. Regis Princeville for Bethany Hamilton's wedding. The first time I saw Kaua`i’s Hanalei Bay from the site of the St. Regis Princeville, I was five years old. The five-star resort location was a pasture with a steep slope that ended in a little...
by toby | Jun 1, 2013 | Life
Nuggets of insight from the road trip May 31, 2013 I had a memory of Carson City that kept us driving past the point of comfort from Great Basin in Utah. In this memory, I was seven months pregnant with Caleb and we spent a romantic weekend in a great big Victorian B...
by toby | May 13, 2013 | Life
Off the deck and into the wild—Sedona Day Six (or is it seven?) May 13, 2013 Perhaps we overdid it yesterday, or perhaps it was seafood fettucine late at night, but I woke up not feeling well and with the mysterious rash I’d gone to the doctor for just before we left,...