2024

Our spring trip had us visiting Poland and the Baltic States with an unexpected detour into France at the beginning.  In the fall we spent most of the trip in Switzerland and Northern Italy.

October 7, 2024 Modena IT

We shifted our base about 50 kilometers today to Modena. Modena is probably most famous these days for being the home of Pavarotti. Ferrari’s headquarters

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October 1, 2024 Bergamo

After our day of rest yesterday we were both up early and ready to get going into town. Our campground is conveniently located about 100

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June 3, 2024 Achthoven, NE

We were off early towards Amsterdam and with light traffic and minimum construction we arrived in the small village of Achthoven near the University town

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May 27, 2024 Gdansk PL

The day started with a misfire. We wanted to visit the Solidarity Museum near the shipyard, but thought we would begin at St. Nicholas Church

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May 25, 2024 Malbork PL

Our friends recently visited Gdansk and highly recommended that we see Malbork castle so we were off bright and early to visit. The castle was

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May 24, 2024 Torun PL

Torun is unique in Poland in that it was mostly untouched in WWII. The buildings you see in the town center are the original buildings

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May 20, 2024 Kozle PL

Today was about driving and getting to western Poland to continue our travels. It was a pretty quiet drive, but we quickly missed our quiet

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May 13, 2024 Riga LV

We were off early in the morning after a good nights sleep in François. Before setting off we found Trena to thank her for her

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May 7, 2024 Warsaw PL

Yesterday we were a little underwhelmed by Warsaw, possibly because Ton was under the weather and without her list of places to see I am

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May 5, 2024 Warsaw PL

After spending the longest time we have ever spent in one campground it was time to move on. Tomak and his family at Kluczwoda Camping

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April 29, 2024 Wielczka PL

The most important tourist attraction near Krakow is Auschwitz. Ton and I discussed whether to visit the camp prior to coming to Krakow. Initially we

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April 24, 2024 Gacki PL

The weather forecast called for rain all day, so we had intentionally decided that we would hang out in François with no plans except for

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April 21, 2024 Wroclaw PL

Today we entered our 18th European country,(19th if you count the Vatican, we are debating the technicality since François the motorhome did not enter the

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April 17, 2024 Pilsen CZ

The most common type of beer in the world is Pilsner, and today we visited the brewery that originated the beer. Pilsner Urquell Brewery has

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April 11, 2024 Nancy FR

After I published the blog last night we did something we rarely do, which is go out at night. But the Port Captain strongly recommended

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Three Island Tour 2023

In the fall of 2023 we focused on three islands in the Mediterranean. Starting from Greece we traveled across the Adriatic by ferry to Puglia,

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Sardinia

Sardinia was full of surprises for us. We were both looking forward to seeing a part of Italy that neither one of knew very much

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October 24, 2023 Piana FR

Ton and I have had the privilege of driving some beautiful highways in our time traveling, the Alaska Highway, Utah Highway 12, the Pacific Coast

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October 15, 2023 Barumini IT

One of the most important cultural symbols of Sardinia are the Nuraghes. These are bullet shaped stone buildings built without mortar. There are many of

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October 10, Orgosolo IT

Tonight we are staying in a bed and breakfast in Orgosolo. We picked Orgosolo because our friends Ovi and Cory recommended it for visiting central

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Puglia

I think of Puglia as the heel of the boot of Italy, but it extends much further north than the heel. It is the southern

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June 6, 2023 Portland OR

The flights home were completely uneventful this time which is always great. This trip we visited two new countries for us in Romania and Bulgaria.

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