Trip: The World (Part II)
There are [389] stories from my trip: The World (Part II)
SPAIN | Wednesday, 8 May 2013 | Views [1068]
Madrid is a young city by European standards and is a pleasure to visit on foot. From the tree shaded Prado and Gran Via to the pedestrian only Calle de Arenal and all the narrow lanes, everything is marked with illustrated tile signs and pictures ... Read more >
SPAIN | Monday, 6 May 2013 | Views [394]
The port of Barcelona was hopping this morning. While we were eating breakfast four other cruise ships were queued up to enter the harbor. Most of the people getting off boarded buses to whisk them off to the airport . . . and home. ... Read more >
SPAIN | Sunday, 5 May 2013 | Photo Gallery
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SPAIN | Sunday, 5 May 2013 | Views [704]
Maybe it was the Fiesta de Santa Cruz that brought out the beauties. Or maybe it was just a normal Sunday. In any event these fair Spanish ladies were the highlight of our few hours in Alicante. When they vanished into one of the hidden ... Read more >
GIBRALTAR | Saturday, 4 May 2013 | Views [1019]
In exteme southern Spain sits a bit of merry olde England. Gibraltar, Prudential’s “piece of the rock” and one of the Pillars of Hercules, guards the opening to the Med. Despite the collapse of the empire, Great Britain ... Read more >
PORTUGAL | Thursday, 2 May 2013 | Views [1325]
This was my second visit to Portugal without ever setting foot on the mainland. But we will soon remedy that! And it was wonderful to stretch our legs on dry land after a week of pitching and rolling at sea.
Madeira, like Jeremiah the ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 26 Apr 2013 | Views [437]
Cruises seem to be especially appealing to the old, the fat and the infirm. I don't remember seeing nearly as many wheelchairs, walkers and canes on our previous trip, not to mention electric scooters. Sure, there were some young couples ... Read more >
BAHAMAS | Wednesday, 24 Apr 2013 | Views [573]
Tourism is the local religion in Nassau and everyone had a “Good morning!” for us as we explored the town. Everyone, that is except the oh-so British gentleman walking his bulldog. When I greeted him with “Good morning.... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 21 Apr 2013 | Views [413]
We must have looked like travel virgins, dressed as we were in new clothes and towing shiny new luggage. Even our passports were brand new with nary a stamp in them. And here we were boarding a cruise ship. Oh, the shame of it!
We ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 21 Apr 2013 | Photo Gallery
Galveston to Barcelona (Again)
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USA | Friday, 19 Apr 2013 | Views [534]
April is the cruelest month, certainly not the most scenic time to go looking for America. Heading east from Nebraska to New Jersey, the stubbled fields were still dappled with gray melting snow and the ravages of winter could still be seen through ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 25 Mar 2013 | Views [384]
Colorado treated us to a spring snowstorm – nothing much by Rocky Mountain standards but enough to make driving a challenge. Our rented Toyota minivan doesn’t have winter tires or all wheel drive either. Oh, how I missed our old ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 23 Mar 2013 | Views [419]
Jim and Cathy have been friends and partners in crime for 20 years. We have shard campfires and condos, skied countless thousands of vertical feet together and belayed each other on rock walls throughout the Rockies. Their family has adopted ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | Views [519]
We’re back in Colorado, a state we once called home. Our mission is to take care of essential business and catch up with some old friends. After seven years, as many continents and fifty countries, the wheels, quite literally, fell ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 | Views [441]
It isn’t too difficult to see America as if through the eyes of a foreign tourist. In a way, I am a stranger here myself. And I can’t imagine why any sane tourist would drive across Texas. Even at 85 mph (140 km/hr) it took ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 9 Mar 2013 | Views [490]
Baseball, that most American of games, is one of our homecoming rituals; a way to touch base (pun intended) and reassure ourselves that we are home. Not that Texas is home. Nor is the US, now that I think about it. And we are told that ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 7 Mar 2013 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Wednesday, 6 Mar 2013 | Views [542]
The airline gods must have been smiling down on us. We had a mere two hours between the JetBlue flight from Bogota to Orlando and our United connection to Houston, scarcely enough time for immigration, collect our luggage, clear customs, get to ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | Views [757]
Both the temperature and the humidity were hovering in the mid-80s as we stepped off the plane, ill-attired in our "Bogota clothes" - long trousers and fleece tops. But it was only a short ride to Hotel Torre del Reloj and a quick change into shorts ... Read more >
COLOMBIA | Tuesday, 26 Feb 2013 | Photo Gallery
Bogota and Cartagena
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