Shanao Cacao

Start of a new month.  Hola February.  East Coast guests next TWO months.  Y-E-S ✅

Trekked NZ with my bestie Dawn (Mar 2017) – both islands, self-drive holiday.  Rotorua to Christchurch, Queenstown to Hobbiton.  Life adventure shared.  Hint, hint.  Travel ready again.

FUN FACT: Dawn was my first manager after finishing college in Massachusetts.  SUPER smart, honest open pure.  On a single hand, friends I‘ve known more than 20 years.  TWENTY years.

We’ve card-played & talked (& talked & listened to music & talked) ‘til 3am.  Feasted on gourmet meals outta her kitchen – Beef Wellington, a Christmas goose.  Known each other’s life mates.  Survived a whiskey flight in Kentucky (‘fire water’).  I HEART this gal, everything about her.

Weekend stopover in Denver?  Heck yeah!

Foodie tour’d the Front Range, learned ‘bean to bar’ how chocolate is made AND inadvertently, made camembert cheese (really thought I purchased ‘cheese & wine pairing’ tickets).

Times goes by fast with this one.  2013 Iceland, 2017 New Zealand.  2020 plans? 🙂

Miss you friend…already.  xoxo ❤️