Category Camping
Europe 2014 – Lisbon, Try it on a Baguette
Our second day in camp would bring another trip into Lisbon for sightseeing. When you are traveling like we are, there is a rhythm to each town. You arrive in camp and set up, becoming familiar with its features. Your first foray into town is full of uncertainty, not knowing where the bus will take […]
Europe 2014 – Lisbon, One Cold Beer to Go
With just a few hours of driving ahead of us, I took the wheel for the journey. We decided to give the toll roads a chance, mainly to save time, and to see if Portuguese law enforcement was on the lookout for us. The drive went smoothly, passing through two manned toll stations, both of […]
Europe 2014 – Porto, It Grows on You
A nice morning greeted us and we made our way into Porto on the bus with a full schedule of sightseeing on the agenda. As had been, and would be the case in the future, the bus stop was not far from the campground providing a ride into town, about 20 minutes with a final […]
Europe 2014 – Porto, Welcome to Portugal
We broke camp at Cancelas and with a somewhat short drive to Porto, decided to try to find out what those interesting buildings were on the top of the hill that we’d aimed for on our bike ride a day or so earlier. Joanna had picked up some information at the campsite for this complex, […]
Europe 2014 – Santiago de Compostela – The End of the Camino
We’d stopped at a Carrefour in Lugo and picked up dinner supplies there, so we set up at Camping As Cancelas, had our meal, including a bottle of that nice white wine we’d discovered in Pamplona, and then made our way down to the restaurant/bar of the campground to check out the ambience and the […]
Europe 2014 – The Dordogne, Part Two
Monday the 2nd dawned bright and warm and as I did a systems check of the body upon rising, I was glad to see that the ear had cleared up and I wasn’t paralyzed from the fall. So maybe that was just a bad day the day before. Coffee tasted particularly good that morning, as […]
Europe 2014 – The Dordogne, Part One
We arrived at Le Capeyrou Campground at the edge of the small town of Beynac mid afternoon on Friday, May 30th and were delighted with the site and its facilities. Beynac is a picaresque place, with its well-known castle perched high atop a steep hill overlooking the Dordogne River. For the first time on the […]
Europe 2014 – Camping du Perroquet: Seriously, We’re Thinking of Doing this for Six Months?
We left Brussels after checking out of Maison Noble mid-morning, saying farewell to Matthieu as he saw us off in order to see the Highlander we’d been talking about. As check in time for the campground we’d be staying at wasn’t until 2:00 pm and the drive would only take about 90 minutes, we decided […]
Europe 1992 – Jessica’s Hungarian Birthday, Part One
Eight years would pass before we would visit Europe again. In those intervening years: I returned to working at ASUCLA, We purchased the Wade Street house from my parents, Jessica was born in 1988, One day while I was making copies at ASUCLA Margaret Snow tapped me on the shoulder and advised me to keep […]
Europe 1984 – the Big Trip, Part Seven
Landing at JFK, we picked up a shuttle that took us to Cherry Hill, New Jersey, close to our next destination, Jan and Brian Dobbs house in nearby Voorhees. Jan is a childhood friend of Joanna’s and remains so to this day. She had moved back to New Jersey when they were in High School, […]
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