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Charleston, S.C. & Shenandoah NP travel links for 2008-07-26

Visiting Charleston, S.C., on a Budget – NYTimes.com But this progressive and mystically lovely city, surrounded by water and wilderness, can still be a destination for the budget-conscious, too. (tags: travel charleston cheap guide) Shenandoah National Park (U.S. National Park Service) (tags: hiking National park travel Virginia camping parks)

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Tour of Richmond & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-06-06

Virtual Tour of Richmond –Richmond: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary The Richmond Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary was produced by the National Park Service’s Heritage Education Services, the City of Richmond, … (tags: travel richmond) A Place to Bury Strangers Nine Inch Nails Reshuffles Touring Lineup NIN.com is also hosting a free […]

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Newfoundland Excursion #2

We’ve been out about a week, arriving in Newfoundland by ferry at Port Aux Basques on Friday, July 13, 2007. The trip across New Brunswick and Nova Scotia was fairly nice and without incident. Found a very good ice cream place, McCabe’s in New Brunswick, a very nice town named Sackville also in NB – […]

Newfoundland Excursion #1

First day out. All went well getting to our motel – Comfort Inn 279 Butler St. Brooklyn NY 11217 718 855 9600. It looks brand new. Found out this morning that it has been open 6-7 weeks, from a building engineer in the elevator this morning. All the staff seem very friendly and helpful (as […]

Dinner in Brooklyn – August 17, 2006

Our son Karl took us to Ki Sushi for dinner tonight. The meal was wonderful. We started with a seared tuna salad, a grilled eggplant appetizer, and a green salad. This was followed by a plate of fresh sushi flown in from Japan daily and a grilled black cod entree. We ended the meal with […]

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Visit to the Peace Barn

We took a trip recently to visit Falling Water. Along the way we had a chance to visit the Peace Barn in the Bruderhof community in Farmington PA. A friend had told us that there might still be a community there and a little research before the trip alerted me to look for Spring Valley […]

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A Restaurant to Remember in Zurich

Having some days off of work can be beneficial. Cleaning out a draw I came across some receipts from our trip to Switzerland this past summer, and found a receipt from a restaurant that we ate at our last night in Zurich. The restaurant was in a garden, behind a hotel. It seemed that many […]

A very nice “Single-serving”

single-serving.com phrase, trail, and travel guides What a nice site! it contains links to printable booklets of language basics for tourists in French, German, Italian, Hungarian (that’s ho I came across this site, but that’s another story), Russian, Albanian, Czech, Polish, Swedish, Spanish, Croatian, Slovene, Danish, Afrikaans, Dutch, Portuguese, and Romanian, and partial booklets for […]

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Weather Forecasts for Europe

We’re getting closer to leaving for our trip to Zurich,Tecknau, Lucerne, Lugano, Venice, Guarda, and Reinach. It looks like its going to be fun and naturally we’re interested in getting weather forecasts. Getting a weather forecast for the major cities is relatively easy. Take a look at Weather Underground or Weather.com. Even the BBC weather […]

Finding Hotel Accommodations in Italy

Our upcoming trip is also going to include some time in Italy. We’ve used several resources to find accommodations and rates. Some of the more useful ones that included links and/or reviews were Fodors Mini Guide to Venice, EuroCHEAPOs Guide to Cheap Hotels in Europe , Slow Travel Italy, Worldinabag – Venice, Rick Steves Italy, […]