A multi-pronged Aug-Sep 2018 trip to Boston to visit Allie, then to Lisbon via Dublin to spend time in Portugal with Laurie, culminating in a return to Boston to meet Barb for a long weekend. Previous Post | Next Post | Trip Home Tuesday, August 28 – Lisbon Rested and ready, we take on Lisbon. …
A multi-pronged Aug-Sep 2018 trip to Boston to visit Allie, then to Lisbon via Dublin to spend time in Portugal with Laurie, culminating in a return to Boston to meet Barb for a long weekend. Next Post | Trip Home Sunday, August 26: Home – Boston – Dublin I rose early at 5:30am to depart …
Barb and I returned to the Inn at Little Washington for a combination celebration of our 60th birthdays and 35th anniversary. It was our fourth time there, the others celebrating our 10th, 20th and 25th anniversaries. We had to check with Allie about the 25th…I thought maybe it had been 30th but we verified that …
Barb and I traveled to Vienna and Salzburg in Austria. This post covers our return to Vienna. Austria Part 1 | Austria Part 2 Day 8 Thursday 5/17/18 – Salzburg to Vienna The morning sky was a little clearer and we could have made the effort to scoot up to the Salzburg Fortress, but our …
I recently read the June 2018 eye-opening and lengthy article by Matthew Stewart in The Atlantic, “The 9.9 Percent is the New American Aristocracy” It weighed on me and I want to offer some thoughts. The basic premise is that the concept of the 1% vs. the 99% promoted by Occupy Wall Street and others …
Barb and I traveled to Vienna and Salzburg in Austria. This post covers our time in Salzburg, including Sound of Music tour and Hallstatt. Austria Part 1 | Austria Part 3 Day 5 Monday 5/14/18 – Vienna to Salzburg Frances headed off to work before we rose, but she left us with a key and directions …
Barb and I traveled to Vienna and Salzburg in Austria to finally visit Frances Marshall. Barb and Frances went to UVA together and Frances has been great at keeping in touch over the years. She is one of Barb’s “smart friends”, a nuclear engineer, spending many years at a facility in Idaho Falls where Barb …
We went straight from the reception to the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown for a one-night honeymoon stay. The hotel had just opened the year before and it was our first time at a Four Seasons. We had considered other places, particularly the Red Fox Inn in Middleburg (we’ve still never been to the Red …
“Spring Break” trip to Aruba with Barb and Allie. Barb always likes to have a winter/spring break in the sun but we’ve had a hard time finding a favorite place (other than Hawaii) that we all like. Over the years we’ve tried a number of spots in the Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Aruba, Florida, and going …
Just read an interesting article from The Telegraph called “The rise of slow travel: 20 adventures to take at a leisurely pace“. It gives some nice background on the rise of the “slow movement” in food and lots of other areas, citing the work of Carlo Petrini (founder of Slow Food International) and Carl Honore (author …
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