Travel
Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.
- 1:02 pm: At Full City Coffee in Eugene having a Cafe Borgia. Yum!
- 5:53 pm: Pit stop on way to Redwood Forest.
- 8:20 pm: In Crescent City. Awesome drive. Watch for video soon.
- 11:24 am: Awesome bakery stop this morning followed by an improptu haircut at a cool barbershop.
- 12:12 pm: Childrens Museum in Portland, OR. Very well done. Much Mazie happiness.
- 2:57 pm: Amazing falafel at Karams in Portland. Wow!
- 3:34 pm: Filling up Honda at $4.16/gallon.
- 3:34 pm: Leaving Portland for an impromptu 1-night stay in Eugene, OR.
- 7:08 pm: At Mezza Luna Puzzaria in Eugene, OR for dinner.
- 9:00 am: Woke up in Seattle and noticed that the F5 Networks office is right across the street from the hotel. “Hi F5!” 👋
- 3:25 pm: Weatherman said rain for Seattle today. Couldn’t be more wrong. Beautiful and sunny.
- 10:12 pm: Discovered The Blair St. Mugwumps today at a music event in Seattle. Totally whacky. Bought two albums.
- 10:08 am: On the way to Seattle.
- 10:13 am: Going through Kalispell, MT.
- 2:07 pm: Relaxing lunch in Coeur d’Alene, ID. Now in pacific time.
- 3:41 pm: Rain, rain, rain. In Washington state.
- 6:44 pm: Going through Ellensburg, WA.
- 6:54 pm: Just paid $4.06/gallon for gas.
- 7:20 pm: In Seattle, WA.
- 7:23 am: Up earlier than I would like. Time change to mountain time to blame.
- 9:21 am: False alarm roadside potty stop for Mazie.
- 9:59 am: Passing through Circle, MT.
- 12:57 pm: Lunch in Lewistown, MT.
- 1:28 pm: Noticed that Barack Obama is in Montana too. Wish he’d stop following me around.
- 4:49 pm: Through Great Falls, MT.
- 5:02 pm: Getting closer to the mountains.
- 6:50 pm: In Glacier National Park!
- 9:57 am: Van loaded. Hitting the road. Sleep in Montana tonight!
- 12:15 pm: Lunch in Alexandria, MN.
- 4:33 pm: In a real North Dakota wind storm. 50+ mph winds. Crazy!
- 4:34 pm: Going through Bismarck, ND.
- 6:51 pm: Dinner at Sandord’s in Dickinson, ND.
- 9:29 pm: Checked into hotel for the night in Glendive, MT.
- 11:14 pm: The WiFi in this Days Inn is far better than almost every expensive New York hotel I’ve stayed in. Plus it’s free with the room.
- One of the memory sticks in my MacBook seems to have died. I isolated the bad DIMM and I’m back up and running on the single good DIMM. I had to head to Radio Shack for a very tiny screwdriver. I’ve already files for an RMA. Luckily I have multiple laptops along so it was all fine.
- Mazie has learned lots of new words. She’s learned “please” although it sounds like “plea” and she now appends it to everything she says – which is very cute.
- This tiny 2-bedroom apartment is actually starting to feel like where we live. Scary.. I miss our house.
Summer of Love Day 16 Log
See full Summer of Love Collection.
Summer of Love Day 15 Log
See full Summer of Love Collection.
Summer of Love Index
Number of days on the road so far: 14
Mileage on the 2006 Honda Odyssey at the beginning of the trip: 48,139
Mileage on the minivan at the end of the day, June 2nd: 50,738
Total miles driven during Summer of Love: 2,599
The average number of miles driven per day: 185.64
Fewest miles driven in one day: 0
Approximate CO2 footprint for driving portions of the trip, thus far: 963 lbs
Cost of fuel for the trip thus far: $481.13
Cost to offset the carbon emissions of the driving portions of the trip, thus far: $2.41
Cost for fuel per mile driven: $0.1851
Number of hotels stayed in: 6
Total number of photographs taken during the trip so far: 944
Average number of photographs taken per day so far: 67.43
Fewest number of pictures taken in a day thus far: 8
Summer of Love Day 6 Log
See full Summer of Love Collection.
Summer of Love Day 5 Log
See full Summer of Love Collection.
Summer of Love Day 2 Log
See full Summer of Love Collection.
Summer of Love Day 1 Log
See full Summer of Love Collection.
East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 31
Let me get caught up first. On Friday we left Asheville and headed to Charlotte to spend the weekend with Tammy’s biological father Ed and his wife Nancy. We had a very nice time with great company, amazing food and wonderful accommodations. We got to meet Ed & Nancy’s son, and Tammy’s half-brother, Christopher. Christoper is a little over 3 and is all boy. What a great kid! We also spent the weekend with Tammy’s aunts, Betty Lou and Sandi, as well as Sandi’s husband Bob. (Whew, got the whole role call there.) It was very nice to get some home cooked meals after being on the road so long (31 days!) and to spend some time just relaxing. I think the highlight for me was just sitting on the deck in the back on Friday night chatting and looking at the stars.
On Sunday we headed out and continued the great adventure to Charleston, SC. We arrived in Charleston right around 5:00 pm and got checked into the Belvidere Club Resort. This place is pretty great. We have an entire two bedroom “cottage” to ourselves. It’s very comfortable.
Go to day: 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37 or East Coast Adventure collection.
First Two Weeks
I just put up a bunch of pictures from the first two weeks of the Great Adventure. These were edited down by Tammy, which is far superior to me and means you actually get pictures of people instead of just things.
Other updates from the first two weeks:
Also, happy to say that I’ve been sticking to my weight loss program with good diligence and I’ve lost 5 pounds in the last two weeks. Yeah!
Day 17 of the Great Adventure is starting with Grandma Kaye and Aunt Angie visiting. We are heading to the Bronx Zoo this morning!