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A selection of stories from our "unpackaged" experiences to mainstream travel destinations
with lots of photos, recommendations and reviews (or just photos).
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We planned a trip to New Orleans to kick back and chill. Our trip coincided with a once in a millennium snowfall. We chilled. It was epic. Photos and recommendations.
A journal-like travelog of a trip to Lisbon, Porto and Sintra, with photos and recommendations.
Above photo: Passengers on one of Lisbon's popular trams.
This story is a journal-like travelog of a trip we made in Ireland in May 2023. Starting in Dublin, we journeyed to Galway (& explored the Burren & biked around Inishmore) and then to Trim (with stops along the way and a day at Newgrange). This travelog includes hotel and restaurant recommendations.
Above photo: The extinct Irish elk, also called the giant deer or Irish deer. This skeleton was photographed at the National Museum of Natural History in Dublin. I collaged the skeleton with a lichen covered headstone from Glendalough.
Along Oregon's Coast - From Astoria to Bandon
This story has photos and travel info culled from three separate trips to the Oregon coast, 2018 - 2021. The coast is a doable day trip or a more leisurely overnight excursion from Portland. So I included travel times from Portland.
Above photo - kids on Cannon Beach.
Inspired by Notre Dame's restoration and re-opening in December of 2024, I decided to pull together a story about our trip to Paris in January of 2019. We were on Notre Dame's roof just a few months before the fire. This is not a day by day travelog like some of my other stories. Why? Because I didn't take extensive notes when I was in Paris in 2019. Without good notes, the details were lost to time. In fact, the photos were almost lost to time. While I found a hard copy of the notes I made, I could not find the image files, which were originally downloaded to a laptop I no longer owned. After much detective work, I finally found my photos and put this web story together the week before Notre Dame's triumphant reopening to the public.
Above photo: Looking down from a glass platform on the Eiffel Tower.
Five Bacchanalian nights in London in January, doing our best to keep warm. Above: The Triumph of Pan by French painter Nicolas Poussin at the National Gallery, London. It's as if Poussin was looking over my shoulder...
We've been in the PNW during snow & ice storms that shut down a major city for five days and during a record-breaking "heat dome" that shut down a major city for multiple days. This May trip to Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and Portland and the north coast of Oregon gifted us near perfect weather, save one truly rainy day. Good weather makes a difference. We stayed in Vancouver, BC, which was vast, cosmopolitan and modern and Oceanside, OR which was the opposite, extra-small, under-developed and frozen in time. Both locales were more fun than a barrel full of halibut cheeks.
In 2014 we visited Prague and Český Krumlov in the Czech Republic. But before I could write about our trip, life got in the way. Until 2025. So this travelog is a combo of 2014 photos and 2025 research. It was interesting to learn what changed in Prague and Český Krumlov in the past decade and what stayed the same. This was one of our all-time favorite trips. We had great weather, stayed in historic buildings, did not rent a car and did not need one. This was not a road-trip journey. Our itinerary included just two very walkable, well-preserved cities with something interesting around every corner.
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