Blog Posts

  • California Deaming

    In November 2025 Robert attended a conference in San Francisco and I tagged along. We started off leaving the city for Alameda to see our friends Ted, Laura and Amanda. After brunch in Alameda we traversed up a long and winding road to the Ridge winery. The view was breathtaking, the wine delicious, our server…

  • London Redux

    Many, many years ago Robert and I took our first European trip. Although we had many excellent adventures we learned quite a bit about travel. In ten days we visited London for five days and travelled by train to Bath, Glasgow and Edinburgh, which was altogether too much traveling. For our 50th anniversary in October…

  • Oh Canada!

    Since the Canadians aren’t coming to the U.S., we decided to visit Quebec City and Montreal. We have been to Montreal but Quebec City would be a new experience. Bonjour! We spent several days in Quebec City, staying at the Auberge Saint-Antoine, which encompasses three sites in Quebec City’s Old Port. During the construction of…

  • 2025: Opinions

    This was one of my favorite travel adventures (of course, almost all of them are my favs). I particularly enjoyed the format – three days in Prague, eight day river cruise, three days in Budapest. It allowed us a deep dive into two cities, an overview of several counties, and a boat ride. Below are…

  • Sailing down the Danube to Budapest

    The next day we were still docked in Linz so we ditched the tour and walked from the boat to explore Linz, which was a lovely small city with lots of shopping. That afternoon we played hooky from anything organized and chilled on the sky deck watching the scenery along the Danube roll by. Our…