Today is our first wedding anniversary. I still smile with joy remembering our wedding. Thanks again to all who made the journey and shared our day:
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This morning we went to the evacuation centers offering our help, dropping off toiletries and such we had laying around. We registered with the red cross as a host home – we can take some pets along with their owners here and thought that would be valuable. We then went to the east [...] We live in South Lake Tahoe, CA, where a large and devastating fire erupted on Sunday. Over 200 homes have been destroyed and more than 1000 people have been evacuated. We are not among them. We are fine, and our house is fine. That said, we have several friends who are now without homes. [...] Halong Bay is in North Vietnam, in the Gulf of Tonkin near Haiphong. We travelled by train from Hanoi to Haiphong, and then by hydrofoil to the island of Cat Ba where we stayed a few nights. One day (Dec 24th, 2005 to be exact) we and 4 fellow travellers boarded a small junk [...] Mel and I found ourselves in Athens last summer with a long week on our hands before embarking on our Yachts of Seabourn cruise to Istanbul (see post below). We spent a little time looking into going to one or more of the Greek islands. This was July, and the ferries were [...] For our honeymoon we booked a one-week cruise aboard Seabourn, a fabulous cruise line with small ships (‘yachts’ as Seabourn prefers to say) carrying up to 208 passengers. We had 180 on ours, the Seabourn Spirit. We were thinking of booking a three-week Venice to Istanbul itinerary, but being first-time cruisers, were afraid [...] Ran into our friend Doyle at the hardware store yesterday. Mel told him about starting her own travel agency. We started talking travel and places we like to go and have been. Doyle and his girlfriend went to Cabo San Lucas recently and stayed at an all-inclusive time-share place for two weeks. [...] Mel and I have always been independent travelers. We are also foodies. We were not drawn toward all-inclusive resorts. We feared being trapped at a place with bad food and nowhere to go. One December after teaching Fall quarter I was fried and asked Mel (the great researcher) to find us a trip. [...] This place is awesome! Located in the central party of Turkey (nearest big town is Kayseri), this region is dominated by a large volcano. The rock formations from its ash deposits are soft, and nature erodes them into fantastic shapes, many of them like big mushrooms. People work the rock too. The region [...] Mel and I have a real passion for travel – we travel when we can, and we read and talk about it all the time. We (especially Mel) research extensively and find places we want to visit, and accomodations we dream of staying at. In our travels we meet locals and fellow travellers and we [...] |
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