Category Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.)
Europe 2025 – Madrid, Part Three
Blog Post 12-21-2025 Europe 2025 – Madrid, Part Three May 3 – 5 To kill time after our Taco Bell snack we drifted in and out of some of the shops on Calle del Arenal and then walked over to the area where the flamenco venue was located. This took a little longer than it […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Rabat, Part Two
April 17 – 18 Leaving Chellah in another Tuk Tuk for the same fee as before, we rode the mile and a half to an esplanade that contains both the Mausoleum of Mohammed V and the Hassan Tower. The Mausoleum contains the tombs of the Moroccan king Mohammed V and his two sons, King Hassan […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part Two
April 9 – 10 Leaving Moulay Idriss, it was a short drive to Volubilis, a partly excavated Berber-Roman city that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania. Built in a fertile agricultural area, it developed from the 3rd century BC onward as a Berber, then proto-Carthaginian settlement before being the capital of […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part One
April 9 – 10 As mentioned in the earlier post, we were scheduled to meet with our tour group at 6:00pm in Cities, the hotel restaurant. Joanna and I went downstairs a few minutes early and finding seats at one of the tables, ordered a drink apiece while we waited to start. Mine would be […]
Europe 2025 – Lisbon, Part Three
April 1-3 We were up and out early for our planned day trip to Sintra through Viator on their Sintra Highlights and Pena Palace Full-Day Tour. Joanna and I visited this area in 2014 but did not take a tour. Instead, we drove our car out to the coast and parked near the lighthouse there […]
Paso Robles and Yosemite 2025, Part Two
February 3-5, 25- 28, 2025 With rain and cold forecast for the next morning we loitered in the room and then around noon got some coffee at a nearby Starbucks and headed west on Highway 46 over the Santa Lucia Coastal Mountains to the coast highway, then turned north at Cambria to make our way […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Corpus Christi
October24- 26, 2024 Knowing we had a relatively simple six-hour drive from Lafayette to Corpus Christi and since it was a Friday, that Stephanie and Lee would be working that day, we had no need to rush out of town for the journey. So, we stopped in at Poupart’s again for some coffee to go, […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Lafayette
October18- 20, 2024 Our short four-hour drive to Lafayette went smoothly and we arrived at check-in time at Paz’s place Airbnb. We’ve had good luck with Airbnb in rarely having booking’s cancelled (only once before I memory) but this trip brought us two, the first in Amelia Island and now here in Lafayette. About a […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Spanish Fort/Mobile, Part Two
October18- 20, 2024 As mentioned in the last post, we had one last stop on the agenda for the day, and that was at the Oakleigh House, the centerpiece of the Oakleigh Historic Complex, a grouping of buildings that contain a working-class raised cottage, Union Barracks, and a modern archives building. The name for the […]
East Coast Fall 2024, Cisco Fest, Part One
August 29 – September 14, 2024 After some months of planning, Labor Day Weekend rolled around, and we found ourselves back in Oakland to start what would be a two-month road trip to the east coast. Ostensibly, our initial motivation revolved around two separate events, meeting the Cisco’s in Rapid City and landing in Fernandina […]
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