As you know, when I travel around this great world of ours, I always am asked, Where are you from? I say California, or San Francisco, and they go crazy, almost bonkers!!! Why? It is a state, and city EVERYone wants to visit. They know the City is a special place. I started visiting on a regular basis back in 1961, as a lowly freshman on an honor society trip. My how things have changed!!! Numero Read on...
First off, yes, the dates on the title of this blog post are correct. We spent 4 wonderful days in Istanbul as a stop over on our way back to the US when leaving Tsamaya in the water in Fethiye, Turkey. Our plan was to spend the winter in the US and return to Tsamaya in the spring of 2020. As everyone knows plans changed with the spread of Covid. As a result, we have been in the US since the end o Read on...
This is the longest section. There are either two or three more shorter sections behind. Will show a picture of one. By the way Winchester was the capitol of medieval England.
Departed Windsor on schedule in the am with stops in Winchester to view the cathedral (Im sure everyone recalls the snappy tune Winchester Cathedral where the of the Cathedral letting him down). A right amazing place is the Read on...
Take a walk through the village this morning, first to the site of the stone pillar that the Sufi mystic, Muabara Kadam Wakhani (there are multiple spellings of everything here, you will see the K and Q are pretty interchangeable), fashioned into a solar calendar. We then reach the museum which is a reconstructed Wakhan house, each of the rooms displaying various artifacts, books, poems, letters a Read on...
I was fairly deep into trip planning when it dawned on me it could be an issue that I was a female planning to travel through Pakistan alone. Embarrassed this had not crossed my mind earlier, I hesitantly did a little research knowing in the back of my mind I really didnt care what the bloggers or travel forecasters had to say because I was going on this trip. Tickets were purchased. My itinerary Read on...
Well, I hope it is the last train I took on this journey. Currently I am in hotel at the airport and I just got email that my flight is canceled tomorrow morning. Cross your fingers for me that I get a later flight. The rail strike is tomorrow so I cannot leave.
I came to the hotel early and dropped my luggage off, then took the train to Brighten for the afternoon. I used to live there starting w Read on...
The 1975 Los Angeles Geographical Society trip was a memorable month long exploration of Russia and the Balkans, beginning in Finland. Leaving LAX on United to Seattle in the morning, we traveled by a Pan American connection to London Heathrow. There we connected with a British Airways flight to Helsinki. (Im tall and the BA Trident had a very narrow seat pitch!) It was a very full day of flying.
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There is just something about train travel.not exactly sure what that is, but maybe its because were Americans who grew up in the suburbs of our respective cities in the 1960s and ‘70s and as a result always arrived everywhere by car. America is a nation of highways. That was America back thenyou want to go some place, you simply jump in the car and go. There were no train stations in your town Read on...
Our ship sailed..we had a great cruise..and it docked back at Port Canaveral February 26th. I see all of you who wanted to go with us, made iteven with such short notice. Good for you! I knew you could do it. Lulu was glad to have us back home. Shes a ..you know that.so doesnt really like being on her own. We were concerned she might turn our RV into a party rig in our absence but, alas.she behav Read on...
The weather was a bit sketchy today so we shifted plans and went to The British Museum to see all of the plundered treasures collected from around the world. The Egyptian artifacts and the remains of the Parthenon were particularly interesting to see. Don wasnt as impressed by this museum as The Louvre as it was more artifacts of life than art. We are ready for the Trivial Pursuit category of anci Read on...