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Our California Adventure – Final
Down South On Sunday morning, our fourth day in California, we were packing up our suitcases and preparing for the 250 Km drive south to our next destination which would be the town of Carmel, officially known as Carmel-by-the-Sea. We recalled that we had both stayed in Carmel one time before when we did a driving trip here around 2004…
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Our California Adventure – Part 2
Airport Mishaps For all of the places we have travelled to over the years, very rarely have we had any mishaps in an airport. At most, have one of our luggage gone missing one or two times over 30 years and we’ve occasionally missed connecting flights. But none of these compares to the complete gong show of our experience in…
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Our California Adventure – Part 1
Road Trip There’s something very appealing about a road trip. Going from place to place on your own time. Stopping when you want and exploring new sights and towns along the way. For ten days, Barb and I will be on our road trip through California, seeing some places we’ve been before and several new ones. We expect that the…
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Our Excellent Portugal Adventure – Final
Back to the Start On Tuesday, we left Lagos in the south of Portugal and prepared for the 300 Km drive back to the Lisbon airport where we dropped off our rental car. We had the car for 10 days but it was no longer needed as we will spend the remaining 4 days of our trip here in Lisbon…
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Our Excellent Portugal Adventure – Part 3
Down to the Coast Approaching the halfway point of our Portugal trip, it was time to leave Evora and head south to our next destination. We spent four nights in Evora and felt it was the right amount of time for a town of its size, one additional day would have been too much and we were ready to move…
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Our Excellent Portugal Adventure – Part 2
The Short Connection In all of the years that we’ve travelled, the number of times our flights have gone wrong has been pretty small. Lost luggage or missed connections have been so few and far between that it’s hardly ever mentioned. When we were planning out this trip, we really should have not ignored our instincts and chosen flights with…
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Our Excellent Portugal Adventure – Part 1
Choosing Portugal We often get asked how we end up determining what destination we plan on going to next. I think this happens more often when we’re choosing a destination that isn’t quite on the beaten track as France or Italy for example. It definitely came up about Portugal. So why did we choose Portugal? There’s no real science to…
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Our Excellent Costa Rican Adventure – Final
Final Days We’ve now arrived at the final destination of our Costa Rican Adventure, now located very close to Manuel Antonio National Park on the Pacific Ocean side of Costa Rica. From our balcony, we have a nice view of the ocean and we’d also discovered on the first morning that we’re also on a monkey route, getting visits on…
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Our Excellent Costa Rican Adventure – Part 3
Over Land and Water After our four-night stay at the Lost Iguana Resort, it was time to pack up again as we would be picked up by our driver to be taken to our next destination. Our journey would take us a short drive to the edge of Lake Arenal, a boat ride across, then another drive to our destination…
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Our Excellent Costa Rican Adventure – Part 2
Getting Here I mentioned in my previous post that we had a very early start leaving Vancouver yesterday morning. We arrived at our hotel late last night, around 10 PM so it was a pretty full day of travel and we were pretty tired, but obviously not tired enough to not stop at the hotel bar for a drink and…
