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.
- Great breakfast at iQ Hotel. Impressive spread.
- Check out of hotel.
- M3 train to Duomo
- Explore Galleria Vitoria Emanuele
- Get coffee at Marchesi
- Take full tour of Duomo. Incredible! Rooftop views are impressive.
- Tammy and Tyler run to get take home gift for his friends. Jamie and Mazie take pictures in Duomo plaza while thunderstorm approaches.
- Duck into Metro just as storm arrives and take M3 back to Central FS.
- Train 9735 from Milan to Venice
- Arrived in Venice
- Take water bus 4.2 to hotel
- Checkin at Combo
- Poor choice and decide to have a fairly simple and non-Italian dinner at the hotel
- Walk around Venice for an hour and see the city. Amazing golden hour photo opportunities.
- Return to Combo hotel.
- Amazing breakfast at iQ Motel
- Catch express train 8803 from Milan to Modena for Ferrari Day!
- Walk out of train station wrong way because of cute train mural on walls
- Walk to Enzo Ferrari Museam
- Briefly explore the smaller side of museam
- Shuttle to Maranello
- See the museam- Jamie shed some tears at the F1 racing display
- Photo shoot in yellow Ferrari
- Lunch at Museam Cafe (much better than the equivalent in the US and cheaper)
- Panaramic factory tour- short naps for all
- Shuttle back to Modena
- Racing simulation for Mazie and Tyler
- See larger section of the Rnzo Ferrari museam
- Macarons, coffee, and chocolate crumble at museam cafe
- Walk back to train station and wait for delayed train
- Train back to Milan- seating troubles
- Train 40 mins late, so have to take a White Taxi to Mad Machines
- Taxi driver hauls it like we’re on the Amazing Race, but we are still 5 mins late
- Time Machine: another amazing escape room with so many rooms and creative challenges
- Tram to Pizzeria Fabrico
- Delicious pizza, pasta, and tiramisu
- Metro back to hotel
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- Breakfast at hotel
- Walk from hotel for hike
- Hike begins with a gentle ascent above the treeline
- Walk through amazing village of Grevasalvas
- Break at rocky overlook before descending
- Descend and take path around lake
- Lunch on the trail
- Return to Sils Maria
- Tammy and Mazie do some shopping, buy cool local bowls
- Coffee and snacks at Grond Cafe
- Mazie and Tyler explore
- Tammy and Jamie relax
- Dinner at hotel with delicious Apple Strudel for dessert!
- Depart Guarda and take bus to train station
- Take train to Funicular.
- Guide Dave gets a lot of static from the conductor about having the wrong tickets.
- German lady that moved to Switzerland sits across from Tammy and I and starts a lengthy conversation with Tammy.
- Arrive at funicular and take it 1,000 feet up to start hike.
- Huge climb up to Segantini Hütte.
- Delicious lunch. I had Barley Soup.
- Hike traverse from hut through rock field and take upper trail.
- Mad rush down to chair lift before storm shows up and possibly shuts lift down.
- Get on lift and have a slow, cold, stormy, raining, anxiety producing lift ride.
- Rainy walk to hotel.
- Attempt to get cash and fail.
- Shop.
- Dinner at restaurant.
- Downtime in room.
- Jamie realizes that he has lost his wallet and that sort of sucks a bunch.
- Breakfast.
- Jamie asks front desk person to see if they can help with locating wallet. They have some ideas.
- Dave, one of our guides, attempts to find Jamie’s lost wallet by going back to the train station at Ardez. Sadly no luck.
- We take off for todays hike up to Piz Buin.
- Everyone else hikes down on the service road, Jamie takes a mountain scooter and has a blast.
- Jamie gets back early and decides wallet search is over. It is lost, time to move on.
- Tammy and Mazie explore the town and Tammy has an amazing find! 🤩
- Cold therapy for our tired feet.
- Nice dinner at Meisser Hotel.
- Cool evening back in the room, getting ready for an earlier morning tomorrow.
- Breakfast at Hotel Guardaval
- Depart at 9a for day of hiking
- Hike Scuol to Guarda. We ended hike at Ardez and took train and bus to Hotel Messier in Guarda
- Relax with Coca Cola on terrace of Hotel Messier
- Delicious dinner at Hotel Messier
- Breakfast at Motel One
- Took Tram with luggage to Zurich HB
- Stored luggage at station (23-06, 23-09)
- S24 train to Kilchberg
- Visit Lindt Home of Chocolate
- S8 train back to Zurich HB
- Quickly retrieve luggage from storage, only 15 min stop
- Boarded IC909 to Landquart
- Transfer traina to Scuol
- Tammy published her first blog post in over 11 years! 🤩
- Taxi to Hotel Guardaval in Scuol
- Walk around Scuol a bit
- Meet fellow hikers and guides Dave and Erik for dinner
- Delicious four course dinner at hotel
- DL162 land In Amsterdam (10:26a)
- Sit on tarmac for 55 minutes waiting for gate to be available
- Clear passport control
- DL9568 to Zurich
- Landed in Zurich (2:06p)
- Checked in at Motel One Zurich
- Tuk Tuk Fondue Tour
- Walk around old city
- Sleep early, everyonr tired
- Lyft to MSP. Super nice driver.
- Cheeseburgers at Shake Shack. 🍔🍔🍔 Mazie got a quesadilla somewhere else.
- DL162 to Amsterdam departing at 7:50pm.
- Change to Central European Time, ahead 7 hours.
- Tammy and kids head to Magic Kingdom, Jamie hangs back to do some work things.
- Tammy and kids experience “rope drop” at 8:26a into Tomorrowland
- Ride space Mountain
- Ride Seven dwarves mine train not working
- Ride little mermaid
- Ride big thunder mountain railway
- Ride Splash mountain (Tyler sat out)
- Go to enchanted tiki house
- Visit Hall of presidents
- Go to Country bear jamboree
- Jamie rejoins party
- Visit Carousel of Progress
- Have lunch at Be Our guest
- Wish farewell to Magic Kingdom
- Drive to airport
- Flight DL1143 from MCO to MSP.
- Home!
- Check out of Sapphire Falls
- Drive to Polynesian
- Leave luggage at Polynesian
- Take Monorail to EPCOT
- Breakfast at Les Halles Boulangerie-Patisserie
- Kids ride Guardians of the Galaxy (3rd for Mazie, 2nd for Tyler)
- Ride Test Track
- Experience Journey Into Imagination With Figment
- Disney Pixar shorts
- Explore Canada, UK, Morroco, Japan
- Lunch at Via Napoli
- Monorail to magic kingdom
- Ride Peter Pan’s Flight
- Ride Splash Mountain
- Ride Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- Ride Haunted Mansion
- Ride Space Mountain
- Amazing dinner at Teppan Edo in Epcot
- Monorail back to Polynesian
- Watch the fireworks over castle from the hotel
- boat ride to Universal from Sapphire
- Stood in line for Minions and baled
- Rise Jimmy Fallon race thru New York
- crepes stand
- Ride ET ride
- Ride Simpsons
- Go to Animal show
- Lunch at Today Cafe.
- Ride Minions ride.
- Diagon Alley: ice cream, wand time, explored
- Go to Curious George
- Go to Fivelous
- Return to hotel
- swimming but too cold
- Dinner poolside
- Disembark from Galactic Cruiser
- Transfer to sapphire hotel
- water taxi to Universal Studios
- Ride Hogwarts Express
- Kids ride Harry Potter and Forbidden Journey
- kid roller coaster hippo grid
- Jamie got frozen Butterbeer
- Tyler got picked at Olivanders for the wand choice
- Kids explore Jurassic playground
- Explore more
- Mazie road tower of fear
- Dr Seuss land road cat in the hat and trolley which was was too long and short
- Return to hotel
- Dinner at Amanista in hotel
- continued exploring Halcyon
- Shuttle to Batuu
- Exploring and missions on Batuu
- Ride Millenium Falcon
- Ride Rise of the Resistance
- Droid making workshop
- Drinks at Oma’s
- shuttle back to Halcyon
- Concluding our mission on the Halcyon
- hang with family and sent them off to airport
- Check out of pop century
- Took skyliner to Caribbean resort to explore
- Had donuts at Joffreys
- Skyliner back to pop century.
- Taxi to Galactix Starcruiser
- Board Galactic Cruiser
- Extensive shopping for Star Wars attire and two lightsabers.
- Explored the Halcyon and did missions
- skyliner to Hollywood studios
- Boat to Disney beach club
- Character breakfast
- shuttle to Magic Kingdom
- Mickey & Minnie meet And greeet
- carousel
- Small world
- Winnie the Pooh
- Alona and Garrett do Dumbo Teacups
- Dylan and Garrett depart for swimming and hotel
- Monsters Inc
- People mover
- Thinder mountain
- Jungle cruise
- Pirates of the carribean
- Jamie and Tyler look for bronze thing. Mazie and mom Swiss family Robinson. Alona and mom shopping.
- Bus to Pop Century and transfer to Disney Springs
- Dinner at Frontera
- Cirque du Solei
- Bus back to Pop Centiry
- Disney Skyliner to Epcot
- Breakfast at Patisserie, and other at Crepery
- Finding Nemo
- The Land
- Lunch at Via Napoli
- Dylan and Garret return to hotel and get abandoned on Skyliner
- Frozen ride
- Buy ponchos for rain
- Mazie and Alona Guardians of the Galaxy (2nd for Mazie)
- Tried to do behind the scenes at Land, sold out
- Rode Soarin'
- Meet up Alona and Mazie at creation shop
- Rode Spaceship Earth
- Dylan and Garritt finally get back to hotel
- Monorail to Polynesian
- Charicacture
- Delicious Dole whip at Polynesian
- Took monorail around all hotels
- Monorail back to Epcot
- Mom and Alona find way back to hotel
- Boat ride in Mexico
- Pretzel, caramel corn
- Evening show at epcot
- Take bus to Animal Kingdom
- Go to Bugs Life
- Most restaurants not open but found breakfast at carts
- Go on Safari Ride
- Train to Rafiki’s Island
- Lunch at Tiffen
- Garrett and Dylan return to hotel
- River Rapids ride
- Mom and Alona shopping
- Mazie rides Everest solo
- Go to bird show
- Met back up for Navis River ride
- Go to Lion King performance
- Ice Creams
- Bus back to Pop Century
- Cold evening swim
- Dinner at Pop Century
- Skyliner to Epcot
- Ratatouille ride
- Breakfast at Patisseries
- Explored countries thru Italy
- Lunch at Via Napoli
- Tried to take boat in Mexico,not working
- Ride Guardians of the Galaxy 😬
- Lefse at Bakeri in Norway
- Ride Frozen in Norway
- China and movie in China
- Dinner in Germany: Caramel Corn, Sweets, Beer, Pretzel, Bratwurst
- Boat to Hollywood Studios
- Met up with Sister and her family, Mom
- Ride Minnie & Mickey train
- Explored Galaxy’s Edge at night
- Ride Toy Story Blaster Ride which Dad won
- Rode Skyliner back to hotel
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 11
Weather: Started warm in the morning. Thunderstorms in Milan in afternoon. Warm in Venice.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 10
Weather: Hot and hot
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Hike to Soglio
Our sixth and final day of hiking into the beautiful town of Soglio.
Part of Switzerland & Italy 2023 collection. Also see Casaccia to Soglio from Europe 2004 Collection collection.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 7
Weather: Very cool in the morning warming up through the day. Very pleasant all around.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 5
Weather: Cooler day. Very windy on the mountains today. Raced to chair lift before storm and lightning arrived.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 4
Weather: Hot and sunny in the morning. Day cooled off a bit and was nicer in the mountains. Evening cool.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 3
Weather: Warm and sunny. Cooler in mountains but still hot and sunny at prime of day. Evening clouds and breeze with much cooler temps.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 2
Weather: Hot and Sunny.
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 1
Weather: Warm & Sunny
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Switzerland & Italy Log - Day 0
Weather: Very nice warm day.
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Disney World Log Day 10
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 9,908
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Disney World Log Day 9
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 29,580 Most steps on any day!
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Disney World Log Day 8
Weather: Best weather of the trip. Temperate and nice.
Steps: 14,974
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Disney World Log Day 7
Weather: Cool and sunny.
Steps: 13,194
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Disney World Log Day 6
Weather: Cool and sunny.
Steps: 9,137
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Disney World Log Day 5
Weather: Cold and sunny.
Steps: 11,951
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Disney World Log Day 4
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 20,148
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Disney World Log Day 3
Weather: Warm and overcast, heavy rain in afternoon.
Steps: 20,758
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Disney World Log Day 2
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 17,354
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Disney World Log Day 1
Weather: Warm and sunny.
Steps: 19,381