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Our Excellent Big Island Adventure – Part 1
We’re about half way through our trip on the Big Island of Hawaii. Weather has been warm every day in the 30’s and of course very humid. Some days it’s really rained hard in the area around our condo but just 30 minutes drive away…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Caribbean Adventure
It’s Friday the 15th of January and tomorrow Barb and I will be home from being away for about the last ten days. It’s unusual that I’m writing the first blog update at the end of a trip but in this case I had very…
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Barb and Baden’s 2nd Spanish Adventure – Final
The Technology More so than on any other trip that we’ve made, the technology has played a more significant role than on most trips. Just the fact that I write this travel blog requires that I have some technology with me such as my laptop…
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Barb and Baden’s 2nd Spanish Adventure – Part 3
A Day at the Beach As our time in our house rental is coming to a close, we had plans to make a day trip to the north coast for a change of scenery. We had so far been focusing on in-land destinations and since…
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Barb and Baden’s 2nd Spanish Adventure – Part 2
We Have Sheep At the top of my Part 1 blog update I had included a photo of some sheep on the road. We’ve now seen the sheep many times and we’ve discovered that the farm next to us has the flock of sheep. Early…
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Barb and Baden’s 2nd Spanish Adventure – Part 1
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 12 years since our last trip to Spain. Barb and I have so many good memories of that trip back in 2003 and it’s surprising that it’s taken us this long to plan our 2nd Spanish Adventure. Our…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Greek Adventure – Final
I realize that this final posting of our Greek Adventure is several days late as Barb and I have been home for a few days. To wrap up this trip’s blog postings I’m just going to add some comments to the photos below. Hi-resolution of all of…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Greek Adventure – Part 3
This will be a bit of an unusual blog update. We’ve just finished our 7-day cruise through the Greek islands. Unfortunately, my laptop and iPad were stolen from the hotel in Athens literally minutes before we were transferring to the port to start our cruise…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Greek Adventure – Part 2
More Athens When you get to a new city you obviously want to sped some time looking at the highlights that it has to offer, trying to soak up the culture and vibe and to generally see what makes that city unique. From Barb’s and…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Greek Adventure – Part 1
This trip to Greece is 20 years in the making. It was in 1994 that we made our only visit to Greece and it happened to be on our honeymoon. For two decades we’ve talked about returning to Greece and decided a few years ago…
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Our Excellent Maui Photos
Photos from our recent trip to Maui on my photo web site here. Baden
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Christmas Adventure – Final
Before I forget, I’ve been uploading my Germany and Austria photos to my photo web site. If you want to see them you can click on this link. Once there, you can click on any photo to enlarge on your screen. Departure and Arrival Our…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Christmas Adventure – Part 4
Good Eating There were a number of great meals that we’ve had since arriving in Germany just over a week ago and for those of you who are regular readers of my blog know that we try and eat local whenever possible. While there were…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Christmas Adventure – Part 3
Speed There’s almost no subject on my blog that I’ve written about more when we’ve been in Germany than driving. Driving fast. For anyone who has a remote interest in cars and driving, it is well know that Germany is the holy grail of places…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Christmas Adventure – Part 2
Jet Lag We arrived safely in Frankfurt on Friday morning and after picking up our rental car, met our friends and drove to our first stay in the small town of Bad Kreuznach which was about an hour drive from the airport. It’s a small…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Christmas Adventure – Part 1
Without a doubt, Christmas is my favourite time of year. The music, decorations, getting together with family and friends, I love it all and I look forward to it all year. In fact, it would have to be something pretty special to draw me away…
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My Excellent Utah Adventure – Final
End is in Sight As I’m writing this section, I’m getting ready to drive most of the day tomorrow to my final destination of my Utah trip where I will be for the next few days and visit two more national parks. In all honestly,…
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My Excellent Utah Adventure – Part 3
Safety First. Or Second. One of the things that is forefront in my mind on this trip is safety. Actually I should say that my safety is forefront on the minds of quite a few people at home who were really worried when i told…
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My Excellent Utah Adventure – Photos
I’ve been posting my photos from my Utah trip to my photo web site every night. If you’re interested, you can check back every few days to see the new ones. Click here to go to me photo web site Baden
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My Excellent Utah Adventure – Part 2
Early Mornings It’s 5AM and I’m already up. It’s 30 minutes earlier than I would normally get up for work and hours earlier than I would on a normal Saturday morning. But today’s anything but normal. I’m driving in the dark towards my destination and…
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My Excellent Utah Adventure – Part 1
It’s been four months since my last post. Our 2013 travel plans have been slow, with only a single trip to Hawaii in May. There were valid reasons for our hiatus, but I’m confident we’ll make up for lost time in the second half of…
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Our Excellent Hawaiian Adventure
We recently just came back from a trip to Waikiki on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. We were there primarily to celebrate my Dad’s 90th birthday and several of us from Vancouver met up with my cousin and her husband who flew in from Melbourne,…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Victoria Weekend
Barb and I made some last-minute arrangements to spend a few days in Victoria. It’s most surprising that I’ve lived in Vancouver for over 30 years and I’ve never spent more than a few hours in our provincial capital city. Victoria is a really beautiful…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Mountain Adventure – Final
The other day we wanted to take a break from snowshoeing so we drove an hour down the highway to the town of Banff. While the Lake Louise area has a lot of outdoor activities (most within walking distance of the chateau), Banff is just…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Mountain Adventure – Part 2
Out in the Snow Last night was our first night in Lake Louise and we had a great dinner at the Poppy Brasserie (one of the many restaurants in the hotel) before calling it a night. After the day spent traveling including the 2+ hour…
