In November 1974, Dad was invited to join a group of Hong Kong business people on a two-week tour of China. Mom was able to go with him. This was two years after Nixon’s groundbreaking 1972 trip to China and one of the early tours for any American businessman beyond the Canton Trade Fair. The …
Our first post-Covid vaccinated journey was a long weekend with Allie in Boston. Thursday, May 20 We drove up to Boston to see Allie, eager to see her and Perri. We brought a few goodies for her and Perri, mainly blankets for their new couch and food that neither Perri or Allie really needed. The …
By 2006, I had been to San Francisco a dozen or more times over my life and career and loved it, but Barb had never really seen it properly and this was Allie’s first trip to the west coast. I wanted to introduce the girls to the best of Northern California and together explore up …
Our Spring Break trip to Greece with Laurie as our tour guide. Over the course of 2005, Laurie wrapped up her teaching job in Sao Paolo, Brazil and started on her Masters program in Castellon, Spain. With her in Europe, we conspired to meet for Spring Break, 2006, in Greece. Laurie was very familiar with …
Continuation of our trip from Denver to National Parks in Utah and Arizona. Part 1 is here. Tuesday, August 16 Per Stewart’s suggestion, we headed to Arches National Park in the morning and oriented ourselves at the visitor center. Our first stop after the visitor center were the canyon views near The Organ and Tower …
This was our summer of The Great American West, which I guess is a pretty much obligatory road trip for any American family. We took advantage of the Embreys being in Denver, a good place to start. We also stopped in to see Aunt Leona, Uncle Larry in Flagstaff near the Grand Canyon. I wanted …
For Allie’s fourth grade Spring Break, Barb, Allie and I jetted off to Spain to see Maggie and get our first taste of the country. With Maggie living in Madrid, we felt like Spring Break 2005 was a good chance to visit the country for our first time. I had technically been in Spain before, …
Celebrating Allie’s 25th birthday, new apartment and new kitten, Perri, in this difficult year of Coronavirus. In the first nine months of 2020, we had only seen Allie twice for a total of about 10 days: for our trip to Aruba in March and when she came down for a short break to the Eastern …
Barb, Allie and I ventured to the Duncan ancestral homeland. It was the first time there for Allie and Barb. For me, the trip followed some of the path of a vacation with Mom and Dad in 1974, but with more golf. We kicked around the idea of a family vacation to England and Scotland …
The three of us packed off on a trip to Hawaii: a full week on the Big Island in a condo at the Mauna Lani resort where Barb and I stayed in 1993. This was Allie’s first trip to Hawaii. We were eager to show her the best of our favorite island in the world…other …