8/1/2013 – Anchorage

We arrived in Anchorage and made our way to the Westmark hotel. The view from our room on the 14th floor is spectacular. Here are some pictures of that. It doesn’t get dark here until 10:30. We have been traveling…

5/23/2012 – London

We traveled by train through the Chunnel to London yesterday. We arrived in the afternoon and had a very nice dinner of Fish and chips and Cottage Pie. Then we went to the Thames river and took a cruise as…

5/22/2012 – Paris

The morning started with some excitement. We have had a bus driver with us from the start of the trip in Italy. His name is Rosario, and let’s just say that about 1 day into the journey Conrad and Cody…

5/21/2012 – Paris

We drove most of the day yesterday through the French countryside. It rained all day so it was a perfect travel day, unless of course you were the driver. We saw a lot of farms and vineyards. We also learned…

5/20/2012 – Venice

Early this morning we left Florence for Venice. Venice is actually a series of islands which I didn’t realize. Our bus dropped us on the “parking island” and from there we went by motor boat to the main island of…

5/19/2012 – Lucerne Switzerland

Yesterday morning we got up early and drove west and then north through the north Italian Alps and into the Swiss alps into the town of Lucerne Switzerland. The drive was beautiful. At one point we went through an 11…