Digging Around Umatilla County, Oregon
Today’s post takes a different, more personal turn, and was primarily written to share with family. My new all-consuming hobby is digging through the records of Ancestry.com in search of […]
Today’s post takes a different, more personal turn, and was primarily written to share with family. My new all-consuming hobby is digging through the records of Ancestry.com in search of […]
We needed a way to get home. On the outbound trip we used Chase Ultimate Reward points to book one way Virgin Atlantic flights. We then traveled around the Middle […]
Why go to Bologna, a city named for deli meat? To eat, of course! Bologna is nicknamed “La Grassa” The Fat One because of its rich cuisine. Like true Italians […]
Our Royal Caribbean Enchantment of the Seas cruise had come to an end. We docked, disembarked, and shuttled to Ravenna, Italy. I had made a reservation to store our suitcases […]
What it Cost to Travel: Athens, Aegina, plus a Greek Island Cruise Athens: After the busyness of our Egypt Adventure we traveled to Athens, a city we’ve enjoyed spending time […]
Egypt was a splurge! In some ways it is cheap and in other ways, not. We don’t usually go for guided tours as we like to do things on our […]
Egypt is hot. We visited late September and we had some triple digit days. The underground chambers become as hot and humid as a wet sauna. Sometimes, it felt as […]
Our Egyptian Adventure was a DIY project. I booked all flights directly with the airlines, all hotels online, as well as the cruise. (I will share the costs in a […]
Evocative Egypt! Did you know that Egyptians call their country Misr? And that Egyptians created “paper” using the papyrus stem? By 3100 BC Egyptians began to chronicle their history with […]
While in Albania I entered every expense on the Travel Wallet app in order to track each single Lek (the Albanian currency) we spent. Conversion rate is roughly 100 Lek […]