Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
I thought about calling this post “Prison Break,” but decided that would be too clever and obscure. Kathryn and I recently finished binge watching five seasons of a television show with that name on Netflix. But that really has no connection with this post. It is late September 2024, and...
Click on any image to see it in full resolution. Our trip to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky went off without a hitch. There were some twists on the return, however. The plan had been to return our rental car at the Cincinnati airport early afternoon on Monday July 16,...
Click on any image to see it in full resolution. Friday night, after an early vegan dinner in Indiana, we drove our rented Malibu through Cincinnati to a Kentucky suburb to see our best friends Mike and Amy Canary. We stopped for some flowers and a few provisions along the...
Click on any of the images to see them at full resolution. The morning after our visit in Peoria, we began the driving part of the trip. It was a pleasant drive through the corn and soybean farmland, passing through the towns of Homer and Paris. I am tempted to...
Click on any of the images to see them at full resolution. It has been an eventful year, and it’s only July. We discovered a hot water leak in the crawl space under our house on January 18. It had likely been there for almost two weeks and did a...
Guides on whole food, plant-based eating often address the special challenges of eating at restaurants or while traveling. We are planning to do both this summer, and we expect to make compromises. When traveling, we still don’t eat animal products, but we might eat food with a little more oil,...
It is Father’s Day 2023 and I am reflecting on my Dad, Rabbi Richard M. Leviton. This is not going to be a flowery paean to him. He was very human. He loved his four children and took good care of us, but it was difficult, especially after Mom died....
One of the reasons for renting the house in Quepos was proximity to Manuel Antonio National Park. I had been wanting to see it, and had missed it on our last stay. We took a short guided tour through this small, newer national park. The guide was very valuable, because...
Our second excursion from the rental house in Quepos was called “off the beaten path.” It started with a ride in a large Jeep-like vehicle through the back country. There was a stop at a small country store for an agua and baño break. It was unremarkable, except for the...
