Summer of Slow Travel

Ok. What does this sign mean?This sign I think is perfectly clear:We went out to Vincent’s last night. I am not a big one for taking pictures at restaurants, but when you see these I think you will understand why I had too. I’m starting to feel like my favorite…

Oh dear, today was a long day. We had a 3 hour drive from Vilnius to Riga, but made two cool, but longish stops. The first was The Hills of Crosses. No one knows why people started thinking of this hill as sacred. But for years people have put up…

What a lovely day. Went to the Peter and Paul church..one of the few that stayed open during the occupation. It’s almost all white inside. Some pics: Peter was a fisherman, so his boat hangs in the middle of the church…with a Viking twist. Though most of the statues have…

We spent 27 hours in airplanes and airports, but somehow it didn’t seem terrible, we had a long flight (and seats that lay flat) on the seven hour flight from Chicago to Frankfurt. And I tried out a combination of Melatonin, Ativan and Advil. Both of got 5 good hours…

Once more please get some cubes to pack in. We always use them, but will love them a lot this trip. We are in each hotel for 3 nights. Which is long enough to unpack if it is easy AND with the cubes it is oh-so-easy. Oh my goodness Word…

I love this stage of traveling. Where all the details are done (A BIG shout out to Max for getting us a visa to Russia) and now we are just in the dreamland of trying to imagine the trip and what we want out of it. I have finished most…

so Our last day in Egypt and we drove out past the Pyramids to the capital of the Old Kingdom (2000 BC) –Memphis and then went to Sakaara–which was their buriel ground. Ramses II had to put up a statue in Memphis…along with almost everywhere else. This one fell down…