Last October for our 25th wedding anniversary we took a river cruise on the Danube through Germany, Austria and Hungary. We really liked the experience and decided to do the Rhine this year. Unfortunately heat and drought depleted the river to record lows and turned the trip into a little bit of a bust with […]
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Beaune, Burgundy, France
Beaune was kind of a last-minute addition to our Europe trip. Really glad we came to this medieval walled city and got to pedal out to the vineyards and villages. A circular walled city Beaune is one of the few towns in France that still has nearly its entire ring of medieval walls. The ramparts […]
Five days in Paris
“…wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” — Ernest Hemingway We ended our Rhine river cruise in Amsterdam and took the high-speed Eurostar train to Paris. We opted for first class and got a pretty good dinner with a nice hazy IPA served […]
Four days in Wengen, Switzerland
If you’ve ever seen a postcard of the Swiss Alps, there’s a good chance it was taken somewhere near Wengen. This little car-free village sits on a shelf high above the Lauterbrunnen Valley, and the only way up is by cog railway. We spent four days there and I’m pretty sure I took a photo […]
Guanajuato
We escaped the summer heat and humidity of Baja with a quick hour-and-a-half direct flight from Cabo to Guanajuato in the central Mexico highlands. The city was as colorful and beautiful as described. Our Airbnb apartment was perched up in the hills at almost 7,000 ft (2,100 meters) above sea level, about a half-mile (800-meter) […]
Lake Powell
A relatively short drive from Cottonwood took us back up to Lone Rock Campground on Lake Powell. I had wanted to explore the slot canyons in the area but couldn’t find any easy boondocking so we came back to the same spot we stayed in this past spring. The views of the Lake here are […]
Sedona/Cottonwood
From Goosenecks we headed Southwest to Cottonwood outside of Sedona. We had stayed last Spring at the Verde Valley Thousand Trails and it was one of our favorites but a little hard to get into because many people feel the same way. Jaime managed to get us a two week reservation which went by pretty quickly. […]
Made it to Mexico
Capt. Jim and I finished up an 18 hour bus ride down from Matamoros to Veracruz, Mexico on the chicken bus. OK it wasn’t a chicken bus and the seats were had about the same legroom as a first class in an airline but it was definitely a bumpy night. There doesn’t seem to be […]