Category Trips
Egypt, Part Three
November 6 – 17 At the start of the tour, Mahmoud collected 515 EGP ($34) from each of us to handle the tips downstream as he referred to it, that is those he would dole out to busboys, drivers, and anyone else providing a service. This concept would be tested when we got involved with […]
Egypt, Part Two
November 6 – 17 Mid Saturday afternoon we checked out of the Marriott and took a taxi to the AraCan Pyramids Hotel, on the outskirts of Cairo in Giza, our lodging for the night, the first of our scheduled Egypt Adventure tour with Intrepid Travel out of Canada, which would last eight days and include […]
Egypt, Part One
November 6 – 17 And so, it began, a month of international travel starting with Egypt and finishing with Mexico, two countries we’d not been to with the exception of multiple forays into northern Baja California. We were curious to see how different, or similar, mainland Mexico would be from Baja, especially given that we’d […]
On the Road Again 2019, Part Six
August 24 – September 6 As planned, we left late in the morning for the drive up to Tioga Pass and Tuolumne Meadows. The road is only open for a limited time each year due to heavy snow and is generally not accessible until late June or early July. We’ve driven this way a few […]
On the Road Again 2019, Part Five
August 24 – September 6 We bade Jessica and Kris farewell Monday morning and hit the road for Yosemite on a now familiar route through the Central Valley onto Hwy. 120 and then uphill at Don Pedro Reservoir to the town of Priest. With over one hundred curves and hairpin turns, this stretch of the […]
On the Road Again 2019, Part Four
August 24 – September 6 Thus, we made it to Oakland later than anticipated but glad to have finally made it, knowing a good night’s sleep can fix a lot of the ill effects of arriving late. We unloaded the car and through some sort of cosmic intervention, perhaps a payback for the day we’d […]
On the Road Again 2019, Part Three
August 24 – September 6 The drive up to Jalama Beach County Park took a little over an hour as we turned off Hwy 101 onto Hwy 1, then left on Jalama Road for the 14-mile drive into the park. Later in our stay we’d ride our bikes almost the length of the road, but […]
On the Road Again 2019, Part Two
August 24 – September 6 After a couple of doctor’s appointments on Monday (the curse of getting older) we took off on Hwy 101 for Santa Barbara. A destination and turnaround point for countless bike rides, we’d spent quite a bit of time there while Jessica attended UCSB and looked forward to reconnecting with the […]
On the Road Agai 2019, Part One
August 24 – September 6 Towards the end of August, we would kick off what would be full fall season of travel. Before we could start though, we had one more Los Angeles based bit of fun and tourism to do and that was to host a visit with Ann and Rendy as he and […]
The Move, Part Four
May 1 – June 10 Up early Monday morning we loaded the cars and hit the road for Nashville, our first stop of the trip, after bidding farewell to Ann and Rendy and of course, Joanna who I would see in about a week. We’d planned out the adventure so that no day of driving […]
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