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Tokyo, Day 2, April 12, 2019
9:30 am and Izumi is waiting for us in the lobby. She has our day scoped out. We are starting at Tsukiji, the old fish market where we will visit the outer market and then a visit to inside. It is quite interesting. The outside market reminds me of the night market in Beijing. Wall-to-wall […]
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January 24, 2019; In the sky, Philadelphia to Miami
Travel always begins when our friend John picks us up at home only to deliver us to the airport about 40 minutes later. Its a ritual. Today, thanks to the inability of elected officials to compromise, we left exceedingly early to be certain we cleared security in time. In fact, security was almost empty […]
MoreBasel, November 11, 2018
We left the Kara at 10am after docking in Basel, Switzerland. We planned two days in Switzerland, the first of them here. It was only a hop, skip and a jump from our boat to the Hotel Basel.
MoreCologne, November 6, 2018
Each day is a new adventure and with luck we have many new adventures in our future. Today’s adventure finds us in Cologne, Germany.
MoreOut and About in Amsterdam, November 3, 2018
After we left the Anne Frank House we decided to find a local bar where we could test some beer. On our way we came upon a street artist, near the museum. We stopped to look at his work and Barbara bought a small painting. Its not hard to find a bar as they are […]
MoreAlaska Epilog
Great time in Alaska and Canada. Now all that remains is our trip home. Our flight was scheduled for 8:20am, so we had to be up and out early, really early. That meant setting the alarm clock for 4:00am so that we could be taxi bound for the airport no later than 5:15am. Although we […]
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