Articles tagged with "Travel Tidbits"
We have found 496 articles tagged with "Travel Tidbits".
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2006-05-15 13:50:08
A SPY FOR THE FBI
One day, while stationed at Fort Monmouth, NJ, I was called ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-10-20 11:13:32
During the 26 years between 1970 and 1995 we drove six different Recreation Vehicles (RV) a total of 87,000 miles, and crossed the International boundaries ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-09-17 20:13:08
If we have no schedule we aren’t late!
If we don’t care where we are, we aren’t lost!
If we have no ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-09-08 15:00:05
In the market place in Hallstatt, Austria, a large digital clock next to a traffic light, controls traffic through a long one lane tunnel. ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-09-05 14:43:42
It was a resplendent morning, clear as a bell, in Chamonix, France. Our early morning ride in two different cable-cars took us part way ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-08-02 14:59:07
The longest Wall “job” ever, was the 3,500 mile Great Wall of China (which we haven’t seen), but the effort and materials consumed to build ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-07-26 10:25:14
A few miles past the border between Spain and Morocco (Cueta is still Spain, though we are on the Continent of Africa), our ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-07-23 11:15:31
During our first visit to Germany, in 1970, we drove to Euskirchen to visit Cousin Josef and his family. Cousin Josef worked for the ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-07-23 10:24:14
The ferryboat from Algeciras, Spain, across the Strait of Gibraltar to Cueta, Spain, on the African Coast, was crowded and hot. Many Spanish citizens, ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-07-08 18:08:39
(Except Vienna, Salzburg, Melk, and Hallstatt)
We entered Austria from Passau, Germany, then stopped in a little town and were happy the ATM liked our ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-06-20 18:38:50
Brugge is very special. It’s about the most charming city in this part of Europe, crossed and recrossed by canals and streets that are ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-05-30 15:01:04
There is the “Champs Elysées” in Paris, “Threadneedle Street” in London, “Unter den Linden” in Berlin, “Via Del Corso” in Rome, and a thousand more, ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-05-12 19:09:37
A traveler from England, who we met in Portofino, told us not to miss the Cinque Terre, five little towns hung on the side of ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-05-11 19:17:30
Just a couple of doors from the Trevi fountain in Rome, Emmy tried to buy a large framed painting. The price started at 40,000L, ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-05-02 21:43:19
CRUISE VIGNETTES 01 Matson
----AN IMAGINARY CRUISE
----STANDBY, SAN FRANCISCO TO LOS ANGELES
----WE VISITED THE BOOM-DOCKS
CRUISE VIGNETTES 02
----THE JONES ACT
----THE FATE OF PASSENGER FREIGHTERS
CRUISE VIGNETTES ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-04-04 15:07:59
COMPUTER MEMORIES, Chapter 01
----COMPUTER HISTORY
----AFTER COMPUTERS
COMPUTER MEMORIES, Chapter 02
----COMPUTER HISTORY — INTRODUCTION
----WHIRLWIND, at MIT
----SWAC, at UCLA
----JOHNNIAC, at RAND CORP.
COMPUTER ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-02-10 11:08:48
After East Germany was founded in 1949, over 3,000,000 people left for the West, most before the Berlin Wall existed. The Berlin Wall was ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-31 13:04:23
Some people are born with a gift to travel, others acquire their love for travel during a trip they enjoyed beyond their wildest expectation. ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-12 10:20:46
The further south we go from Lisbon towards what is called the Algarve Coast, the poorer the country seems to be. We have seen ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-10 15:25:43
We spent 2 nights in Andorra
We spent 21 nights in Austria
We spent 15 nights in Belgium
We spent 8 nights in Czech ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-07 20:14:25
We are not “professional” campers, we are tourists and sightseers and the RV is an especially convenient way for us to travel and see the ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-06 17:41:01
(May 16 to August 31)
This year discount tickets were available from Air Canada, so we flew to Toronto, wasted a couple of hours, then to ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-06 17:39:11
(August 9 to October 25)
Since Pan Am World Airways has gone out of business and no US Airline has replaced them, Lufthansa is the only ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-06 17:34:43
(March 10 to July 2)
We used the return portion of the Lufthansa Airline tickets we bought in late 1988 to return to Germany now, and ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-06 17:32:05
(July 30 to December 6)
This year we bought Pan Am World Airways tickets that were good for one year. We had a choice between ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-06 17:26:34
(May 30 to October 31)
This year, Pan Am World Airways was not only non-stop to Frankfurt, it was on time! We had purchased specially-priced ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-06 17:24:23
(July 6 to September 27)
This year World Airways agreed to move us and our “ton” of luggage to Frankfurt, with a change of plane in ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-06 17:19:05
(May 9 to October 26)
This year it was Braniff International Airline’s turn to supply a special airfare of some unremembered nature. We flew to ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-06 17:16:01
(August 23 to November 29)
This year there was a special deal for a flight with Icelandic Airlines from Chicago to Luxembourg, with a refueling stop ...
Posted on: Travel Tidbits | 2005-01-06 17:11:49
(August 18 to September 14)
We purchased tickets ($283, round trip) for a charter airline flight to Frankfurt, Germany, then spent our first night in a ...
