Category Airbnb/VRBO
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Sydney, Part One
February 2 – 6, 2024 Our three-hour flight to Sydney, departing at 9:30 in the morning, meant an early start and checkout for us the next day. This flight, again on Jetstar for $153 one way, would be a shorter distance then the one from Melbourne was and it all went smoothly. After landing we […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Cairns, Part Two
January 28 – February 1, 2024 Our Skyrail journey ended at the Kuranda station, where we disembarked and had to hike a short distance up to the town itself. A cute little touristy destination with loads of the kinds of shops one finds in these locations, we stopped for a bit to grab a cold […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Cairns, Part One
January 28 – February 1, 2024 Our flight the next morning to Cairns at 12:30 pm would again give us plenty of time to clean up and check out of the Airbnb and still get to our flight. We’d be flying for the first time on Jetstar, an Australian low-cost airline headquartered in Melbourne and […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Wellington, Part One
January 8 – 10, 2024 Bright and early the next morning the Quigley’s shuttled us to the bus stop in town for our four-hour ride to Wellington. The bus driver checked us in on an iPad and after storing our luggage we climbed aboard and settled in for the journey. Arriving in Wellington, we pulled […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Auckland, Part Three
December 28, 2023 – January 1, 2024 Our last day in Auckland would be a lazy one, with Joanna and Marty heading off to the Auckland War Memorial Museum while Kim, Bev and I would Uber to the harbor and stroll about there. The museum is one of New Zealand’s most important museums and war […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Auckland, Part Two
December 28, 2023 – January 1, 2024 Our first full day in New Zealand would turn out to be an exciting one, with a long and exciting e-bike tour in the morning capped off by a nice dinner and then trying to manage to stay awake until midnight. It was a challenge all around but […]
Europe 2022 – Amsterdam, Part Three
June 2 – 5 After our day out we returned to the houseboat to relax some, including a short nap for each of us, and soon enough it was time to head out in search of dinner. We walked back to Koningststraat thinking we might consider eating again at Eetcafe Vab Beeren since our first […]
Europe 2022 – Amsterdam, Part Two
June 2 – 5 I’ve been to Amsterdam six times and Joanna has made four visits including the ten nights we spent there in 2014, so, we didn’t feel compelled to hit every tourist site in town, indeed we had to do some searching to find one that we hadn’t been to. And that turned […]
Europe 2022 – Amsterdam, Part One
June 2 – 5 We booked our flights on Delta and for a couple of hundred bucks apiece upgraded to Comfort Plus for all four flights (LA to Seattle, Seattle to Amsterdam, Munich to Detroit, and Detroit to LA), the extra legroom and free drinks well worth the added expense. We had a nice layover […]
KC Wedding – The Wedding, Part One
May 11 – 16 As anticipated, the drive to Kansas City was an easy one and we arrived at McKenzie and Dillon’s (M&D) place by mid-afternoon Tuesday. It would be a busy week as the days would be filled with preparation for the wedding taking place on Saturday, which I would have the honor of […]
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