Category Trips

Peru – Lima, Part Two

July 14-16 Our flights went smoothly, and arriving around 5 in the morning in Lima, we cleared customs quickly, although there was some confusion as they asked to see our boarding passes from the flight, but as we had used our phones, those passes had expired and were removed from our devices.  Recognizing that we […]

Peru – Lima, Part One

July 14-16 And then finally, after more than two years of planning, starting, stopping, starting, and stopping, we found ourselves getting ready to fly to Peru for a two-week tour with Intrepid, the folks that took us to the Nile River in Egypt in 2019.  We’d booked the Premium Peru In Depth tour, which would […]

Spring North Carolina 2023, Part Three

April 18 – May 2 The next day was full of errands Rendy needed to run and just generally spending time together until it was time for dinner when Ann joined us, and we journeyed to The Prescott which also happened to be located in Kernersville.  Touted as a farm to table dining experience, I […]

Spring North Carolina 2023, Part Two

April 18 – May 2 As mentioned in the earlier post, as soon as we pulled up to Wye Hill Brewing, I recognized having been there before.  It was in 2009 when we lived in Charlotte and I had just purchased our 2007 BMW 335 and took off on a Friday to drive to Raleigh […]

Spring North Carolina 2023, Part One

January 31 – February 2, April 18 – May 2 With my hip replacement scheduled for the middle of February, we decided to get in one last road trip before I would have to begin another three months of convalescence.  Taking advantage of a winter promotion in Yosemite where if one purchased two nights of […]

Europe 2022 – Conclusion Part Two

June 2 – 28 For this trip, transportation expense was more than for a typical road trip as we purchased those Eurail passes, which were still an incredible bargain in terms of the number of individual trips and the distance we traveled.  If we were to have purchased single tickets for each of our legs, […]

Europe 2022 – Europe 2022, Conclusion Part One

June 2 – 28 As we wrap up this trip, we’ll examine how it differed from some in the past in that although we were cost conscious, we weren’t obsessive about it and has been a more recent pattern for us, did not include any camping.  This naturally makes the total expense higher as indoor […]

Europe 2022 – Munich, Part Five

June 25 – 27 The next morning, given the long lead time between waking up and eventually getting food on the plane, we opted to enjoy the hotel breakfast at 12-Euros apiece and were very glad to have done so as it came a close second to the one we had experienced at the Meininger […]

Europe 2022 – Munich, Part Four

June 25 – 27 Having been to Munich so many times in the past and although it seems hard to believe from these last couple of posts that all we did while here was drink beer, in fact we’ve hit almost all the major tourist spots.  These would be, in no particular order:   In […]

Europe 2022 – Munich, Part Three

June 25 – 27 We entered the BMW Museum on the ground floor and then worked our way to the top of the “salad bowl or white cauldron” via a spiral walkway then wound our way back down a floor or two, the exhibits here focusing on the company’s sustainability initiatives.  From the first-floor ground […]