Travel Adventures

Dear all firstly thank you again for such lovely comments and messages. As always so lovely to hear from you all thank you Hoping you39re all keeping well xSo gosh I don39t know where to begin with this week... Invigorating exciting and actually quite life affirming. Partly due to the breathtaking scenery partly due to the physical challenges and partly due to having met a very spec

Today Joe and Jon went to see the Spruce Goose and Aviation Museum. It39s amazing how much money Hughes spent for a plane that only flew once. Keep in mind the plane is constructed of spruce wood. While the boys played with planes Joyce and I stayed home and chilled. It felt good not to have to go anywhere all day. The temps did take a major dive over night. Yesterday it was sunny 75 but to

I arrived at the airport in San Jose Costa Rica at 830 p.m on a Friday dead tired from a 600 a.m. departure from Kansas City coupled with a 9 hour layover in Texas. I really messed up when booking my tickets. My study abroad program offered a group flight but I decided to save a little cash and search the internet for cheaper tickets. I was ecstatic to find plane tickets for a couple hundred

We planned to do the underground tour in Pendleton however due to a special event over the weekend it was closed on Monday. Instead we toured the Pendleton Woolen Mill where they make Native American blankets. We were able to see the entire process in action. Interestingly the geometric shapes on the blankets are made using punch card technology 6039s erain the machine. The other blanke

Dhole 4200m to Namche Bazaar 3440mHappy Anniversary to my Mum and DadThe snow has stopped falling it is utterly beautiful outside. After a bowl of ultra thin porridge NPI score of 410 supplemented by a chapatti with honey we head off to start our day. The walk out of the village was utterly incredible. The snow was pristine powdery and soft I love that squeaky noise it makes as you are

The first time we went to Kalapana we were lost I cant remember where we were trying to gobut we were not only lost but lets not call it fighting but the attitude in the car was tensemaybe it was just meThere were 5 of us and I for one was feeling crowded. Oh that time was with Richard Shannan and their son Evan previously mentioned often

DAMN Those girls look deahd. We had a rough sleep. Got woken up at 4am from a fire alarm but it seemed we were the only ones concerned. No fire though. Room service woke us up at 11 starting to feel the jet lag at this point. We stopped off at our favorite cos thats how americas spell it cafe LA for an awesome breakfast. We felt like egg. After both agreeing to go to Hollywood we set off wi

Bula It39s been a LONG day.After an emotional goodbye and an aggresive frisk search we boarded our 600 Air pacific flight. We were greeted by the lovely Fijian crew who say 39bula39 which means welcome. we thinkThe plane was hot. we were sweaty and agitated and ontop of that there was no window on our row. Our onflight entertainment was down and our screens didn39t work. But we

Today we took our time getting up and having breakfast. Our plan was to walk to the FNAC office to pre purchase our Louvre tickets but when we walked there it turned out to be closed another National Holiday although the Louvre was open. We continued our walk through the streets and found a great kids clothing store and a store where we could get Steve a man scarf all stylish men in Europe o

We headed out this morning in a rainstorm hoping the roads weren39t flooded as it had really poured all night...Lynn drove until Bill39s stress level was more than evident and she turned the wheel over to him....At that point we didn39t realize we39d be lunching on fish and chips in an English seaside town.....We stopped in Cartagena to visit the amazing Roman Amphitheater Museum