Janet's Jaunts Blog

Revisit New Zealand with writing award

New Zealand for me was in Nov. 2011 but stories written from that epic trip have just earned me a big Mark Twain award – First Place Series in the Midwest Travel...

Joyful Ohio summer fun

I most enjoy watching summer arrive in Northeast Ohio, returning color and form to gray and sparse winter landscapes. The venues may change for me from year to year because it’s the...

Niagara-on-the-Lake visit sublime in spring

The 150-year-old Prince of Wales Hotel is a landmark in the middle of Niagara on the Lake Just back from Niagara-on-the-Lake where spring is about a week earlier than here – at...

Ohio wine country a great destination

Just learned that only 20 tickets remain for Wine N Bloom, the wine tasting self drive tour taking place the first two Fridays and Saturdays in May.  Anything in Ohio’s close by...

Meeting Jayme in Croatia: A coincidence?

Meeting Jayme Moye in Croatia in 2010,  was an extraordinary coincidence.  It was one of those experiences that makes you believe that everything does, indeed, happen for a reason. We were two...

Hometown roots ground world explorer

Although an Ohio flatlander by birth,  Jayme Moye has summitted peaks from Colorado to Haiti and Tanzania. Whether snorkeling the fissure where tectonic plates meet near Iceland or summiting Kilimanjaro in Tanzania,...

A marriage proposal witnessed by all

I just returned from Baltimore where cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom just as they likely are in Washington, D.C. It was a weekend spent to celebrate my birthday and that of...

Spring break along Florida’s Panhandle

Spring break has begun in Northwest Florida and the local Sun newspaper carries listings of the colleges whose students are in town for the  snow white talcum soft beaches, free flowing beer...