We took the train from Portsmouth to London. We had worked out a strategy as to how we were going to move our immense quantity of luggage and not leave any piece unattended because if you did, one of two things would happen; 1) the Taliban would put a bomb in it to explode at [...]
Posted on September 26th, 2008 by dianagene
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So how does a couple of basically down-to-earth, roll-around-in-the-dirt campin’, mini-van dwellin’, whopper eatin’ ‘mericans find themselves on the elegant Queen Mary II?
No worries dear reader - I have not fallen completely in love with my own writing. Again, there are too many pictures below - scroll on down if you wish.
Funny you should ask. [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2008 by dianagene
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Over the years, I have had mixed feelings about the popular image one gets when they think of the great American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. I used to think the “Ranch-style” house attributed to Mr Wright, had been the demise of suburbia. By creating a tool which greedy developers could use to cut-up the countryside [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2008 by dianagene
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Our travels took us from New York City to the New England area where we would make our final preparations to depart for Europe and hope to get in a little tourism as well.
Fortunately, we had a built-in support system living in Rhode Island. Our niece, her husband and their four year old daughter live [...]
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by dianagene
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We started out seeing LA California at the beginning of the summer, and we ended up seeing New York City near the end of the summer. I guess we are big-city people because we loved both. There is so much to do and perhaps it’s just a tourist’s point of view, but the people who [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by dianagene
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Dear Reader,
Our utmost apologies for the blog bog down. The rigors of travel along with round 37 in the down-sizing trauma/drama (now we’ve sold the van and are living out of two suitcases each - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!) have left too little time to update you on our big adventure. Hence this missive.
We set [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by dianagene
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