We arrived in Bar Harbor Maine on a Sunday afternoon. Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island and serves as a gateway to the mountains and cliffs of neighboring Acadia National Park. I had booked us a room at the Bar Harbor Grand Hotel which placed us right in the middle of town and provided free parking which would have been hard to come by this time of…
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One Day in Budapest in Winter
Read morecontinued from 4 Amazing Days in Salzburg and Vienna at Christmas On the three-hour drive from Vienna to Budapest we passed through Bratislava, Slovakia. The goal, to add another country to our list for this trip. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate. The day was…
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4 Amazing Days in Salzburg and Vienna at Christmas
Read moreLeaving Germany behind, we arrived in Salzburg late on Friday evening. Our lodging for the next two nights would be at the Hotel Garni Frauenschuh. After unloading the car, we settled in to watch downhill skiing. Downhill skiing is self-explanatory. We did not need to…
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72-Hours in Hong Kong in April
Read morecontinued from A Four-Day Roadtrip through Malaysia Greg rallied, and we boarded our Malaysia Airlines flight to Hong Kong. The “pilots” did not want to fly on Malaysia Airlines (they are well aware of the mysterious disappearance of flight 370), but our options from Kuala…
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A Four-Day Roadtrip through Malaysia
Read morecontinued from One Night in Kuala Lumpur. The drive from Kuala Lumpur to Taman Negara National Park took us 3 hours and 45 minutes. It was easy driving, and very similar to driving in the United States aside from the whole driving on the wrong…
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One Night in Kuala Lumpur
Read morecontinued from How to Spend Two Action Packed Days in Singapore There are a handful of ways to travel to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from Singapore. We chose to take the bus. This offered us a new form of public transportation and it was cheaper than…
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How to Spend Two Action Packed Days in Singapore
Read moreOn Thursday, March 21st we took United Airlines, 10:30PM flight from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to Singapore. The “pilots” selected this flight because the aircraft was a Boeing 787 (a.k.a. the “Dreamliner”) and one of their favorites. The flight was an exceedingly long seventeen…
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Christmas Market Road Trip: 5 Wonderful Stops in Germany!
Read moreAfter renting a car in Prague, we drove three hours on the Autobahn, to the city of Nuremberg — “the little city of wood and cloth”. Speaking of the Autobahn… Contrary to popular beliefs, there are, in fact, speed limits on the Autobahn. Certainly there…
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Christmas Market Road Trip: First Stop, Prague! (via Frankfurt)
Read moreIt was 2019 when we first approached the idea of taking the kids to Europe to see the Christmas Markets. Doug had done it when he was a kid, and truly enjoyed it. Our plan was to take a river boat cruise, but once we…