Mardi Gras in N’awlins

Posted by Sierra As the marching bands pass by, people scream at floats, waving their hands for beads. The crowd cheers and gasps as a teenage girl twirls a flaming baton high up in the air and catches it. They jump up when they see the “throwers” on the floats are about to toss something [...]

Please, mister, throw me some beads

Sierra pleads for beads Friday during the Excalibur Mardi Gras parade in Metairie (just west of New Orleans). This was the first of two parades, back to back, in Metairie, and Sierra brought home plenty of beads. In part, as you can see from the second photo, she’s much better at catching them than she [...]

Lost in Paris, Texas

Posted by Stan We weren’t exactly lost. But we did spend 45 minutes today driving all over the not-so-big town of Paris, Texas, looking for this mini-Eiffel Tower with a cowboy hat on top. Why? Every member of our traveling team got to pick a certain number of essential stops — 20 in North America, [...]

Walt Disney World WITH SPECIAL GUEST STAR Universal Studios Florida

Posted by Sierra Walt Disney World. Who in the United States of America hasn’t heard of it? Well, maybe some hermit who has been hiding in the mountains since 1970, the year before the park opened, but that’s not my point. My point is that Disney World is the most famous theme park in the [...]

Trip Part 2, By the Numbers

Posted By Sierra These are some numerical stats from our trip to Europe. Most Frequently Heard Song: It’s a tie between I’m Yours and Disturbia, both with a total of 13 times. Most Expensive Country: Switzerland Least Expensive Country: Czech Republic Number of Countries Visited: 15 Number of Border Crossings: 42 (40 for Dad) Least [...]

Sierra’s Birthday Surprise

Posted by Sierra ‘Twas the night of my birthday and all through the car, not a creature was happy not even the pappy. The night had been one of “No room at the inn!” How did this start? Oh, where to begin?! The day before, it was filled with glee as we purchased fondue mix [...]

Happy Birthday, Sierra

Also Happy Birthday to Aunt Jill and Laurie . . . and hope your day went a little smoother than Sierra’s. Expect her report soon, about what happens when the apartment where you are supposed to stay closes for “technical reasons” and the place they send you to turns out to booked solid.

The Canyon Under the Earth

Posted by Sierra I’m sure you’ve all heard of Mammoth Caves in Kentucky, and I’ll probably write about those caves when we visit them in March-ish. But right now we’re in Europe, and I’m going to tell you about Skocjan Caves in Slovenia. Now, we’ve visited another cave on this trip (in France, see The [...]

The Not-So-Great-Flood

Posted by Sierra 6:00 PM, Thursday, October 23, 2008- The Slow Travelers trudge through their albergo door after a long day. They have finished an 11km hike through all of the Cinque Terre (Five Towns: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, Monterosso). They miraculously found a supermarket and also managed to get back to the hotel. Sierra [...]

Our latest desktop background

Posted by Stan It has turned out to be too difficult to update our Flickr feed during the European part of our adventure (connections, time, stuff like that). So maybe in December and January. But I did want to share a couple of photos. You can click on them to see them full size at [...]

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