Or home, temporary home We've been here about a week now, and like everywhere else we've been (except Santiago) we've fallen in love with it. We have a pattern of investigating real estate, discussing how we would make it work, dreaming of life in _____ (fill in the blank), talking through the practicalities and then …
Our final few days in Berlin
Wednesday morning, we signed up for a driving tour that followed the outline of the Berlin Wall, in a Trabant! For those of you who are not car buffs, the Trabant was the standard car in the GDR from the early 1960s until reunification. Over that period, the car basically did not change. The one …
48 Hours in Motion
Plus: Is 9+ miles a death march? The answer, of course, is a lot. This was our only full weekend in Berlin and we didn't want to waste a minute of it. Guess what? We didn't. As per our usual, we mapped out a walking route that came out to a little less than 10 …
Wir Mögen Berlin oder …
O nos gusta Berlin or We like Berlin (except for the weather) We've been in Berlin almost a week now and we like it. Steven complains a lot (OK, almost nonstop) about the weather, which is kind of crummy. Damp, cloudy and chilly. Plus the sun disappears at 4:30 (the sunrise is allegedly 7:30am, and …
Happy Idiots: Year 3
The third round of the Happy Idiots tour started on Tuesday night when we flew from Miami to Copenhagen. We are spending five days visiting the city in part to visit Sue’s niece Jillian who is studying art there for the semester. We took an overnight flight that stopped at Heathrow and we arrived in …
Here We Go Again
I sit here writing this in the home of my wonderful mother-in-law (yes, I can always use more points for excellent sucking up) where we are once again leaving the Saab. The next leg of our adventure awaits. You probably know the plan: Copenhagen to Berlin to Valencia to Paris to Valencia to Kenya to …
A Whirlwind Trip to the World’s Best City
Yes, we went to New York again. This time, Steven had to go for work and I tagged along because, well, see above. Every time I go to NY, I want to live there, but I also want to travel. It's one or the other, so instead of looking for apartments, we're looking for more …
National Mall to National Park
Plus: Summer to Winter in a Week In our last blog, Steven detailed our latest crazy plan. In preparation, we know we need to get used to walking and walking and walking. You already know about our death marches. A couple of weekends ago, we decided on a modified version, over to the National Mall …
The best laid plans…have to start somewhere
Our plan for the next 6 months beginning in November is to head to Valencia by way of Copenhagen and Berlin with a three week safari in Kenya in February. As always, I have created my travel spreadsheet that keeps track of what we have/haven’t taken care of. Last Saturday this is how it looked: …
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Living in Washington, DC
Wow, it has been a couple of weeks since we posted. Sorry loyal readers, we have been quite busy and just did not get around to scribbling down our notes. My mother returned to Florida at the end of August after spending a week with us. My mom is a real trooper, walking hither and …
Doing It On The Road 