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Kinderdijk, land of Windmills, November 5, 2018
We docked in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands, this morning. The day is chilly and somewhat overcast. We are taking a two hour walking tour of the windmills of Kinderdijk.
MoreAnne Frank House and Museum, November 3, 2018
Saturday morning, November 3rd, found us on the way to the Anne Frank House. The house (indicated in blue on the photo below), located on the Prinsengracht Canal is now a museum dedicated to the memory and determination that was the Frank family. For two long and desperate years Otto Frank, his wife Edith and […]
MoreVancouver, Canada, August 12, 2018
Vancouver is a beautiful city! JoAnn and I have been here twice before and found it to be clean, friendly, architecturally interesting and generally inviting. We stayed at the Pan Pacific Hotel on the waterfront at Canada Place. Holland America booked us there for a one-night layover before flying home to Philadelphia. The Pan Pacific […]
MoreKetchikan, Alaska, August 10, 2018
What do you call it when the rain isn’t falling, the breeze isn’t blowing and the day isn’t cold and bitter? A rare, sunny day in Ketchikan, Alaska’s rainiest town. Why just yesterday they had almost three inches of liquid fall from the sky. How lucky were we to see the sun? What a wonderful […]
MoreJuneau, Alaska, August 9, 2018
August 9th is another rainy day and it finds us in Juneau, the capital of Alaska. Juneau is named after Joe Juneau, a gold prospector who came to the area in the late 19th century. As Joe must have said, “there’s gold in them, there hills” and the city was off and running. The city […]
MoreHaines, Alaska, August 8, 2018
Rainy, windy, cool; these adjectives describe the weather in Haines today. Oh, and did I mention cloudy? Clouds hang low over the mountains obscuring the peaks. Welcome to Haines. We had no set plans today. We took our time this morning and decided to walk into the newer part of town. Bundled in warm clothes […]
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