It is a beautiful morning. A little foggy but start a list by the time we left. We were a little concerned that the Cowells weren’t in the field behind our place when we woke up this morning. But nothing to worry about. They were in their pen with a vertically mounted rotary brush. Saw… Continue reading Europe – Day 4 – Luzern (Lecerne)

Had a really nice nights sleep. The entire house looks like it was purchased from IKEA. We even had the same cabinet poles in the kitchen as we do at home. Breakfast was a combination of toast small sandwiches with sausage and cheese as well as cereal with yogurt or milk. We looked out our… Continue reading Europe – Day 3 – Brunnen, Ibach and Steinhausen

The flight to Iceland was very pleasant. A nice selection of movies, music and TV shows. I was able to sleep about half the flight and spent the rest of time listening to a series of Icelandic musical artists and watching Icelandic TV. Some cutting edge and racy stuff (Playing with Balls and Stella Blomquist).… Continue reading Europe – Day 1 – Iceland

Part of the fun of traveling to other countries is just wandering around and looking at things that are different from the US. I’m a big fan of corned beef. Didn’t have a chance to try the lamb or mutton Vegemite is like eating beef bullion on crackers… OK, Coco Pops are available here, but… Continue reading Fun foods and signs

From New Zealand: – Stick boy – lived next door to the AirBnB – spent his time wandering around the yard hitting things with a stick. Until he hit his older brother and got hit back. – ‘Salvos’ are Salvation Army or other thrift stores. We saw them everywhere and finally stopped in one on… Continue reading Random short stories from the trip

We packed our suitcases and packed the car – I got to hold Ryan’s backpack on my lap since we had more bags than our trip to the airport. We said our goodbyes to Ryan and headed in to the plane. We heard the weather was bad in Atlanta and Raleigh, so we changed our… Continue reading Epilogue – going home

The weather was beautiful so we had our last breakfast on the veranda – we had our usual granola and yogurt and cheese and toast and juice and coffee and tea – plus all of the remaining leftovers. Delicious with a gorgeous view. The rain ended in mid-morning so headed to the Sydney Zoo. We… Continue reading Day 16 – Sydney Day 4 – Last day- fun at the zoo

We spent most of the day at the “PowerHouse{/Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences”. Very cool museum – all kinds of somewhat random exhibits – see brochure for notes. The main traveling exhibit was mummies from the British Museum- which we had already seen at the British Museum, so we declined. They space craft, trains,… Continue reading Day 15 – Sydney Day 3 – Rainy day, so indoors at a museum

Early start today – up and dressed and quick juice/drink and out of the house by 8:45 Drive to the docks to take the harbour cruise. Got there early and checked out the shops and places to eat. Found a place with giant calamari rings, but no one else was interested. Chatted with the guy… Continue reading Day 14 – Sydney Day 2 – Harbour Tour plus!

The good news from Tiger Air was that they sent our bags out quickly (balanced the delay waiting for bags from Emirates in Melbourne). We headed out to the parking deck to get our rental car and headed for the AirBnB. The car was a small Nissan SUV – and it had a smaller truck… Continue reading Day 13- Sydney Day 1 – continued…