Vacations

One of the things that Sandra really wanted to see in San Francisco was the Painted Ladies which is a term for Victorian houses painted in three or more colors to embellish their architectural features.

Finally we made it to the Golden Gate Bridge, and it's much more impressive up close. What we didn't know until we got there was that you can walk across the bridge and the pedestrian walkways are

One of the most surprising finds that we had in San Francisco was the Palace of Fine Arts, and we spotted it because of the massive lagoon that makes the building that much more incredible. This is one

Probably the most "touristy" thing we found in San Francisco was the Fisherman's Wharf area where you can find all of the chain restaurants that you find in every tourist town, but the most incredible

No trip to San Francisco is complete without a ride on a trolley car, but keep in mind that although the trolleys are cheap transportation they are always crowded. And although it looks

There are many things that you have to see even if they are just simple little things like the "The crookedest road" in the world Lombard Street, San Francisco. With all of the attention this road

Whenever we are on vacation, Sandra always makes sure we see everything there is to see and in the case of our cruise ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge, we certainly were not going to miss it.

Sorry for the delay on the posts about our trip out west. I have started working on them but I don't want it to become the same situation as our Alaska trip where it's been a year and I am still working

Since we have done a ton of hiking out west lately, we decided to try a local hike we have never done before. So today we went to check out the Tibet Butler Preserve. I didn't bring my camera, but we

There is one specific reason that we stopped in Astoria and not Portland on our cruise... the ship was too big to pass under the bridge across the Columbia river and Astoria was on the right side of the

One of the best dog beaches (and one of the only!) in Florida is New Smyrna Beach. We love taking the dogs there. We go up to the north end of New Smyrna to Smyrna Dunes Park. It is only a few dollars

Since the whole mess with Lou Pearlman and Church Street in Orlando - I was worried on what might happen with downtown. But now that Bob Snow has it - it looks like things are getting better! We were

Here is D (her full name is Diamond) at the house lounging. How is this comfortable? A more flattering shot of her sweet face: We headed down to the Italian Market for some sweet stuff. We

Since we had one day to check out the town, we decided the best way to do it was a tour. We picked the double decker bus and it was a hop-on, hop-off option that we liked. It had a few downsides - the

Since Google's art today was about the first demonstrated flight of a hot air balloon that took place on June 4, 1783, I decided I too would post about hot air balloons. We went to Albuquerque

Our first stop on our Alaskan cruise after finishing Alaska was Seattle, and it was not raining even though that is what we were told to expect. ;o) But we didn't have any idea what to do in Seattle so

So now that I'm finally back to posting about our Alaska Cruise I want to introduce you to our tablemates because by this point in the cruise we started to see them more and more and they are probably

There is a cute little ride inside the "ball" at Epcot called Spaceship Earth. We went on it and they take your picture at the beginning. Then you punch in a few answers to questions and they tell a

I am cleaning out my pile of videos and photos and found more stuff from Gatlinburg to show you. (The rest of the Alaska trip will follow in the next few days). This is the sky lift in downtown Gatlinburg,

Have you ever used Priceline.com? I have seen the commercials and I notice reviews on TripAdvisor.com sometimes mention booking through Priceline or Hotwire. So I found a board called Better Bidding