Our Travel
Welcome to our Travel Pages.
This is where I’ll write about our travels and adventures.
Click on a year below to see what happened that year:
NOTE: This is currently under construction. Stay tuned, I will continue to add pages.
Note: this is under construction so some links may be broken. I am moving this info off of my old geocities website.
March 1997: Our trip to Hawaii – we hope to make some movie files from the videos we took. We also got to see the Honolulu festival which featured Japanese culture and the St. Patrick’s Day parade and party! Also, we were very lucky that… Continue reading
1998:Jan 23-27: Surprise, surprise, we are going to Paris for a long weekend!!! For some reason the airlines are running ridiculously low prices now and I am going to be transitioning to IBM February 1 so I had some vacation days to use so here we go! We are staying at the Hotel la Bourdonnais very near the Eiffel Tower. We also found an Aikido seminar that is taking… Continue reading
March 29-April 15, 1999:
We went on a cruise to China, South Korea and Japan! We were on the Nieuw Amsterdam with Holland America and will fly to Hong Kong. Then off to various parts of China, S. Korea and Japan. We spent a couple extra days in Osaka after the cruise to get to hang out in Japan some.
I’m in the process of putting my journal
This is a test of posting. I just looked at my site and it seems as though I lost some of my latest posts. Unfortunately, I don’t know what I last posted and I haven’t been posting so I just don’t know. Well, at least I’ll see how this does… Continue reading
Here are even more tips, tricks and bargains for the Las Vegas Strip. There is more transportation information, Dining and Drinking, free and interesting things to do, good websites and more.
First, a note on asking for room upgrades. Ask if they have any complimentary upgrades. That means you are asking for a free upgrade. Otherwise they will probably just tell you the cost to upgrade, which may be… Continue reading
Since we are leaving next week for Vegas, I thought I would share some tips, tricks, discounts, websites, etc that I have picked up while planning this trip.
Airfare:
By checking Travelocity, Airfarewatchdog and other airfare sites, I ended up getting very good priced tickets: $254 air from Dayton (+taxes, $601 for 2). We will take carryons only = no charge. We live in Fort Wayne, but I… Continue reading
We go to Chiang Saen on the Mekong River and take a longtail boat ride. We stop at Don Sao in Laos for some Snake Whiskey, we go to our hotel, Phowadol Resort and then we go to the Chiang Rai night market. Continue reading
Our Smartours Amazing Thailand trip. This is the first half of our day where we meet Uncle Gao at his Pineapple Farm, see Phayao Lake, eat Dancing Shrimp and visit Mae Sai, the border town to Myanmar. Continue reading




