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Photo Friday: The Colors of Summer

August 17, 2012

School has started and summer is fading fast. Despite the heat, summer 2012 has offered us many colorful memories. 1. Roller coasters — lots of roller coasters — with our niece Justina in A 10-Year-Old Rates the Rides at Worlds of Fun. 2. Colorful seats in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Take a [...]

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Photo Friday: the Countryside View from Amtrak’s California Zephyr

July 13, 2012

The Most Scenic Route Between Denver and San Francisco Meandering rivers, towering mountain peaks and rugged wilderness areas lie on the route of Amtrak’s California Zephyr train as it travels between Denver and Emeryville, California, where passengers are transferred by bus across the Bay to San Francisco. This train route follows the [...]

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High Five for Friday: Our Top Five Weekly Travel Highlights

July 6, 2012

It’ Friday and we are celebrating a terrific week of travel highlights , inspired by Lauren’s High Five for Friday. From Denver to San Francisco we traveled by train, plane and ferry during this holiday week, enjoying good food, delicious wine and fun friends. Our Top Five Weekly Travel Highlights: 1. Experiencing the culinary delights of Denver’s [...]

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Cruising the British Isles: Edinburgh (from Rosyth, Scotland)

July 28, 2011

We’ve recently returned from a 14-Day Celtic Circle cruise around the British Isles on Holland America Line’s ms Prinsendam. While onboard the 835-passenger‘elegant explorer’, we visited 10 ports in Scotland, Ireland and England. This post is part of a series detailing our discoveries both in port and on the ship. The port of Rosyth, Scotland [...]

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