... to have had the opportunity to live in Europe, and travel all over the world.  Jeff, in particular, has gone AROUND the world (literally) by motorcycle.  We treasure our experiences and friends met and kept through the years. Click the link above to read some of the motorcycle travel reports.   

Our favorite place is our historic Farm about 3 1/2 hrs away in the mountains of WV.  We go there as often as we can to try to practive "Il bel far niente" (the art of doing nothing), Learning this art will take us a lifetime, apparently, as we generally fail at the task when we are there!  Even though we get in a lot of porch sittin' time or spend evenings around the fire pit, there is always a LONG list of projects to do.  The Farm is about 130 acres, including the 1800s historic Ananias Pitsenbarger homestead - the old house and 15 other log and wooden outbuildings.  NOTE - the Ananias Pitsenbarger Farm was listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in Aug 2011 !!!)  There is a lot of upkeep of the place, and gardening to be done, and we have our own newer log cabin to maintain as well.  Thank goodness we now have a tractor ... and lots of good friends who will work for food and beer! 

When we are not in WV, we live in quirky, fun, historic Petersburg, Virginia.  We are near family and friends here and have absolutely NO yard.  Quite a change from the Farm, since we are right in the heart of the shopping, dining district of Old Towne.  This is another kind of adventure, as Old Towne undergoes an exciting renovation as a destination for food, culture, history, shopping, fun.  Petersburg and the Tri-Cities area is booming with growth and changes brought about by the expansion of Ft Lee.  My work life is here, too, (signaturestyleantiques.com) so we have a different kind of "to do" list here than at the farm - less physically stressful, more mentally taxing.  Our lives seem to balance out, somehow, pretty well.