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Trip: The World Part 4

There are [427] stories from my trip: The World Part 4


Photos: Shades of New England: Bridges, Towns and Museums

USA | Tuesday, 17 Sep 2024 | Photo Gallery


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Hudson Valley

USA | Monday, 16 Sep 2024 | Views [80]

WE SPENT THE NIGHT IN POUGHKEEPSIE in the Hudson Valley with plans to visit FDR’s home in Hyde Park on our way north in the morning. As it turns, out our hotel was just around the corner from Vassar College and we couldn’t resist a stop to ... Read more >


Legends at Sleepy Hollow

USA | Sunday, 15 Sep 2024 | Views [107]

WE AGREED TO MEET AT SUNNYSIDE on the Hudson River near Tarrytown NY. Jenny, Matt and son Ryan came down from Connecticut, Debra from nearby White Plains and we came across from North Jersey. Debra and Jenny are “John One’s” nieces ... Read more >


Photos: US Grand Tour: Hudson Valley NY

USA | Saturday, 14 Sep 2024 | Photo Gallery


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The Seven Year Itch

USA | Thursday, 12 Sep 2024 | Views [73]

AFTER FOUR DAYS OF NON-STOP TALKING we needed a break from people—some alone time—before visiting John’s brother Ray in Ohio. A bit of Google mapping and some time on Booking.com got us a room on the shore of Lake Erie in the Lake Point ... Read more >


Theory of Relatives

USA | Monday, 9 Sep 2024 | Views [100]

SEEING RELATIVES IS ONLY PART of the plan on our Grand Tour and when it comes to Connie’s family there is still much to be discovered. Now that Ron, the family genealogist, is hors de combat we have to go to the horse’s mouth for the stories.... Read more >


Goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City Here We Come

USA | Tuesday, 3 Sep 2024 | Views [77]

CONSIDERING EVERYONE’S AGE, “Farewell Tour” seemed a bit too fatalistic. So “Grand Tour” it is—2½ months and a few thousand miles driving East then South to visit with friends and family. With the schedules ... Read more >


Photos: US Grand Tour: Mid-West

USA | Sunday, 1 Sep 2024 | Photo Gallery


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Sittin' In The Railway Station

USA | Saturday, 3 Aug 2024 | Views [96]

THEY SIT FROZEN IN TIME, WAITING FOR A TRAIN that has left the station for the last time. A sailor and a soldier ready to ship out. A young girl waiting as Mom buys their tickets. A couple saying good-bye after a 3-day pass. The porter helping a family ... Read more >


Photos: Omaha Road Trip

USA | Thursday, 1 Aug 2024 | Photo Gallery


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Rocky Mountain High

USA | Saturday, 6 Jul 2024 | Views [131]

IT HAS BEEN NEARLY 15 YEARS since we visited Colorado ski country—each year we promise to make the trip but keep putting it off. But Houstonian friends Greg and Laura were in town on grandparent duty and a day in the mountains seemed like a good ... Read more >


A Day at the Museum—Teen Rex

USA | Saturday, 22 Jun 2024 | Views [146]

YOU DON’T HAVE TO TRAVEL TO HOLLYWOOD to see the World Premier of a film—you don’t even need to dress up! Yesterday we attended the World Premier of T.REX in 3-D right here at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and not even ... Read more >


Sweet Home Colorado

USA | Wednesday, 12 Jun 2024 | Views [138]

WE HAVE BEEN BACK IN COLORADO FOR exactly a month—and, boy, have we been busy. We got much needed haircuts and retrieved some essentials from storage  even before we checked in to our latest AirBnB, our fifth “same-but-different”... Read more >


Photos: Colorado for the Summer

USA | Friday, 17 May 2024 | Photo Gallery


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Photos: East to Alaska

USA | Thursday, 16 May 2024 | Photo Gallery


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East to Alaska

USA | Saturday, 11 May 2024 | Views [134]

AFTER SIXTEEN DAYS AT SEA, THE GOOD SHIP Royal Princess arrived in Whittier, AK yesterday—East to Alaska, not North. As cruises go this one was pretty blah. It began with a last minute change of berths negating the carefully chosen location of ... Read more >


Sayonara Kyoto

JAPAN | Friday, 26 Apr 2024 | Views [118]

IT’S EASY FOR “GAIJIN” LIKE US to confuse Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji—SpellCheck is having problems, too. We fondly remember autumn reflections of the Golden Pavilion, Kinkaku-ji, from our visit ten years ago, not even realizing ... Read more >


Ten Thousand Torii Gates of Fushimi Inari Shrine

JAPAN | Wednesday, 24 Apr 2024 | Views [147]

WE HAD ALREADY SEEN THE “BESTEST.” Now we’ve seen the “mostest.” Torii , that is—those bright red gates that mark the gateway between the human and sacred worlds in the Shinto religion.      ... Read more >


Kyoto Imperial Palace and Nishiki Market

JAPAN | Tuesday, 23 Apr 2024 | Views [182]

DECIDING TO RE-VISIT KYOTO WAS A NO-BRAINER. We have a few days to kill before we sail from Yokohama, Japan is one of our favorite countries and there are a few things we missed in Kyoto in 2014. KABIN Taka isn’t as convenient to public transportation ... Read more >


Photos: Kyoto

JAPAN | Monday, 22 Apr 2024 | Photo Gallery


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