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Rising Sun — A Month in Japan
Spring 2025 Trip Notes & Itinerary Overview: A 32-day, 10-city journey across Japan, mostly by train (with a couple short flights and a few days by car), covering the Big Three (Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto) and several smaller towns on … Continue reading
3 Weeks in the (North of) Ireland and Scotland
Spring 2025 Trip Notes & Itinerary Overview: What started as a weekend trip for an Irish wedding turned into a two-week road trip around the north of Ireland — both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic’s counties Donegal, Mayo, Westmeath … Continue reading
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Tagged Antrim Coast, Aviemore, Ballynahinch, Belfast, Bushmills, Connemara, Craigellachie, Donegal, Edinburgh, Europe, Giants Causeway, Glenveagh, Inishowen Peninsula, Ireland, Londonderry, Mount Druid, Northern Ireland, Pitlochry, Scotland, Slieve League, Speyside, Travel, Trim, Whisky
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If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be… 2 weeks in Amsterdam, Ireland and London
Spring 2024 Itinerary & Trip Notes Overview: Having just wrapped up a 3-week trip in South Africa, we had planned to head home until we learned our entire family — three daughters, two sons-in-law, and baby granddaughter — would all … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, Camden Town, Dublin, Europe, glendalough, Ireland, London, Netherlands, Sligo, the-netherlands, Travel, Wicklow Mountains
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Where the Wild Things Are: 3 Weeks in South Africa
Spring 2024 Itinerary and Trip Notes Overview: A three-week road trip through the best of South Africa, with roughly equal time spent in Kruger National Park, the Garden Route, and Cape Town. Itinerary: Kruger National Park (6 days split between … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Big 5, Cape Town, Franschhoek, Garden Route, Kruger, Kruger National Park, safari, South Africa, Travel, wildlife
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3 Days in Istanbul
Spring 2024 Trip Notes & Itinerary Overview: A quick 3-day, 3-night layover in Istanbul, Turkey, on our way to South Africa, with quality time spent in the Eminönü, Sultanahmet, Karaköy and Kadiköy neighborhoods. Bottom Line: Why Istanbul, and why only … Continue reading
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Tagged blue-mosque, Europe, hagia-sophia, istanbul, Istancul, topkapi, Travel, Turkey
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Tropic Thunder — 5 Weeks in Southeast Asia
Fall 2023 Trip Notes & Itinerary Overview: Our first trip to Southeast Asia was originally conceived as a scuba diving adventure in Indonesia with daughter Emily. This morphed into a 5-week, 5-country tour (“Tropic Thunder“) when daughter Anna announced she … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, Bai Tu Long Bay, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Ha Long Bay, Hanoi, Hoi an, Langkawi, Laos, Luang Prabang, Malaysia, Penang, Singapore, Travel, Vietnam
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A Week in Mexico City
April 2023 Trip Notes & Itinerary Overview: One week in Mexico City during Easter Week of 2023, visiting our daughter, Anna, who decided it would be a cool place to “work remotely” for a couple months. Bottom Line: Mexico City … Continue reading
Down Under Part II — 3 Weeks in Australia
March 2023 Trip Notes & Itinerary Overview: Melbourne (3 days) > Kangaroo Island (4 days) > Adelaide (1 day) > Byron Bay (3 days) > Sydney (7 days). Bottom Line: From the land of Kiwis to the land of Aussies. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adelaide, Australia, Byron Bay, Down Under, Kangaroo Island, Melbourne, Sydney, Travel
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Down Under Part I – 4 weeks in New Zealand
February 2023 Trip Notes & Itinerary Overview: Our first visit to New Zealand was a four-week road trip by car, with 8 days in the North Island and 18 days in the South Island. After our last night in Queenstown, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abel Tasman, Coromandel, Doubtful Sound, Down Under, Fiordland, Fox Glacier, Franz Josef, Great Walks, Hobbiton, Milford Sound, New Zealand, Punakaiki, Queenstown, Te Anau, Tongariro, Travel, Turangi, Waitomo, Wanaka, Wellington
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Bareboating the British Virgin Islands
Thanksgiving Week 2022 Itinerary & Trip Notes (and highlights from past trips) Overview: This was a seven-day bareboat sailing adventure on a 45′ Nautitech Fly catamaran we chartered out of Nanny Cay, Tortola, with Horizon Yacht Charters. I skippered the … Continue reading
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