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.
Today is a driving day! I’m catching up on the Big Adventure from our hotel room in Roanoke, Virginia. We drove a little over 6 hours but I feel like we put in a lot more hours than that. The first 3 hours were in very busy traffic along the eastern corridor. Six lanes going each …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 23We’ve ended our three weeks in the New Jersey/New York area. I find myself pretty eager to get away. We are going on vacation. It’s the next step to going back home. But mostly, there are just too many people around here! I’ve never really thought of myself as a “country mouse”. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Reflections on the Northeast CorridorThis was the last week in New Jersey and we began preparation for the last two weeks of vacation. Grandma Kaye and Aunt Angie were out through Wednesday which was great. They were all able to do stuff during the day while I was at the office and everyone had a lot of fun. Angie …
Keep reading · 1 minute: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 22Today we extended the Great Adventure both North and South. The day started very early when Mazie woke up at 5:15am and decided that she was going to be awake. We didn’t get to sleep until very late so it was a tired morning. We took a drive this morning and went to the Bronx …
Keep reading · 1 minute: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 17I 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: One of the memory sticks …
Keep reading · 1 minute: First Two WeeksSo you have been following along with update from the Great Adventure but your confused about where all this stuff is? Well, now you can explore the Great Adventure in Google Earth. Make sure you have Google Earth installed and then you can open our Great Adventure map and …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Great Adventure in Google EarthDay 16 of the Great East Coast Adventure was a lot of fun. Mazie got us all up at the normal time and we decided to go into Princeton to have breakfast at PJ’s Pancake House. I’m stunned that they actually own pancakes.com. What an awesome URL. I can almost guarantee that some …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 16On Day 12 of the Great Adventure I pretended like I was an average east coast commuter. I had a 9:00am meeting in New York City so I took the trains into the city. I got to Princeton Junction when I should, managed to avoid the local train and take the express that came a little …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 12It’s Sunday morning and the beginning of Day 10 of the Great Adventure. We are in Washington DC beginning our second day of sightseeing. Grandma Chrest and Aunt Alona arrived on their flight last night just before the bad weather really settled in from Hurricane Earnesto. It was …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 10Day 8 of the Great Adventure starts with a relatively lazy morning as we prepare to head to Washington DC for the long weekend. This week has been crazy. I had two evening business events filled with very busy schedules in the day. I mostly just got up at 6 am each day, got …
Keep reading · 1 minute: East Coast Adventure '06 - Day 8