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Europe 1998 – A Journey Rewarded, Part Two
A pleasant day on the train awaited us as we made our way northeast to York. Able to grab facing bench seats with a table in between, we read, played games and snacked as the train rolled through beautiful English countryside. Arriving in town in the afternoon, we made our way to our lodging, the […]
Europe 1992 – Jessica’s Hungarian Birthday, Part Four
We would spend five full days at Francois and Heike’s, marveling at how all of our lives had changed in the eight years since our last visit in 1984. In that time, we’d all had children, purchased homes, and pretty much settled into the careers that would sustain us through adulthood. This connection to Francois […]
Europe 1992 – Jessica’s Hungarian Birthday, Part Three
We left on October 18th heading to Prague, figuring it would take us a couple of days of driving as we were going to take smaller roads and make a stop at Aggtelek National Park, which is a couple of hours northeast of Eger. Aggtelek is the first Hungarian national park to be dedicated to […]
Europe 1992 – Jessica’s Hungarian Birthday, Part Two
Leaving Vienna behind, we embarked for Budapest on a gloomy overcast day. I was under the weather and so Joanna did the lion’s share of the driving that day. It’s important to remember that for the next week or more, we’d be traveling through areas formerly under communist control, and that tourist related services we […]
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 Six
Having arrived in Munich on September 17th, the start of Oktoberfest was still five days away, beginning on Saturday the 22nd. Because of this, Camping Thalkirchen was still relatively deserted with lots of open space in which to pitch our tent. We spent the next four days sightseeing and shopping, taking in the Hellabrunn Zoo, the […]
Europe 1984 – The Big Trip, Part Five
Departing Munich on September 9th, we took the S6 line towards Starnberg to begin our multi-day adventure on the King Ludwig’s Way (Konig Ludwig-Weg) a 75 mile long trail set up in 1977 to commemorate this most beloved of Bavarian rulers. Out plan was to split the journey into about four days of hiking, with […]
Europe 1984 – The Big Trip, Part Four
Florence is just an hour up the road from Siena and we arrived at our destination there, Camping Michelangelo and picked out a good spot. Located just down the hill from Piazza Michelangelo, the campground sits high above the River Arno about a 20-minute walk from central Florence. This would be my third stay; the […]
Europe 1984 – The Big Trip, Part Three
We set off sometime before noon planning to arrive in Siena later in the afternoon. During the preceding days I’d sold our little group on the campground where we would be staying, just outside Siena’s city walls. Sitting on a hillside, its terraced campsites overlooked a very nice swimming pool, one we would surely enjoy […]
Europe 1984 – The Big Trip, Part Two
We set out from Paris on July 25th to spend about a week traveling and camping along the Normandy coast. Our first stop was Rouen, famous as the place where Joan of Arc was executed in 1431. After two nights we drove south paralleling the coast, with the top down, through Dieppe, Le Havre, Honfleur, […]
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