Category: travel

  • Keeping Big Brother in the Know

    Chuck and I are going to the Caribbean in early December to celebrate our tenth anniversary (I know! Awesome, huh? We’re pretty excited.) We wanted to go someplace where neither of us had been and that wouldn’t break the bank (home improvement ain’t cheap) and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic fit the bill. We’re…

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  • Taking a breather

    I had a business meeting in Seattle last week, so Chuck and I decided to make a mini vacation out of it by heading to the San Juan Islands for a few days. Seattle felt like the start of the vacation as the weather was fabulous. After a few weeks of sweltering summer weather in…

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  • Post impressions

    We’ve been home for a few days now and already Europe and our time there is receding in my memory (kind of like the jet-lag). But casting my mind back, when last I left us, we were off to Delft. Delft turned out to be a really cool town! We took the local train and…

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  • Those crazy Amsterdammers!

    We arrived in Amsterdam yesterday, and are staying at (as everyone who hears we are staying here tells us) a five-star hotel. Chuck’s remark on seeing our room was, “I expected something bigger for a five-star hotel.” Actually, it’s a pretty good sized room and is (la-di-da!) on the executive floor. The only perk this…

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  • Au revoir Paris, Goedendag Amsterdam

    Katie headed back to Michigan yesterday (that would be Tuesday). We took her to Charles de Gaulle via metro and saw her through the security line, then headed off to Roissy-en-France to secure a hotel for our return to Paris next Sunday. Roissy, you may remember, is where we stayed the week we were stuck…

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  • City of lights

    Monday  was Katie’s last day in Paris so Chuck opted to end things on a high note. More on that later. We started the day getting breakfast across the street from the apartment where the waitress is working on Chuck’s pronunciation. Yesterday’s lesson was “jus d’orange.” It’s pretty cute watching him struggle with the alien…

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