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Over the weekend we traveled to Baltimore, Maryland for the wedding of two longtime friends of mine, Mike and Carrie. I met Mike many years ago through O.A.R. and we’ve kept in touch for the years following. He’s the founder of OARfans.com, and because of the website he eventually met Carrie, moved to Baltimore, and […]
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The last stop of our cruise honeymoon was supposed to be Tunisia. I was really looking forward to stopping there, especially after getting all kinds of great advice on a previous posting. Unfortunately, while checking in we were told that our itinerary had been changed to remove Tunisia and add Palermo, Sicily. Needless to say, […]
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The second to last stop on our cruise was in Split, Croatia. As mentioned in this planning post, we participated in our only cruise sponsored excursion of the trip, an Off Road Safari. On this trip we took turns driving manual transmission Land Rovers through the countryside, to the top of mountains, along the Cetina […]
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This past Saturday we headed up to Rocky Mountain National Park to view the changing aspen trees and the annual elk rut, aka the elk breeding season. We took Cari, our roommate for the past month, along with us for her first visit to the park. Cari’s family are longtime friends with Kim’s family, and […]
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As mentioned before, we had an overnight stay in Venice during our cruise. This allowed us plenty of time to explore the canals and alleys of this unique city and even get lost numerous times. The first thing we did once in the center of town was to take a walk across Piazza San Marco. […]
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If judging solely from the number of pictures I took, Naples would have to be my favorite stop of the cruise vacation. And looking back on it, I may have to agree with that statement. What it may lack in famous landmarks, it made up for in sheer beauty and ancient history. I mentioned a […]
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The third stop of the cruise took us to Rome, well actually Civitavecchia. Once again we quickly took a train from the port town to the city of interest, exactly as planned. The first stop we made was at Vatican City, and I’m glad that we did it this way. I’ve read all about horrible […]
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Our second stop was in the port town of Livorno, Italy. Once again, we stuck to our plan for the most part, though we did head to Pisa first and then Florence later. We did this as I had pre-bought tickets for us to climb the leaning tower first thing upon our arrival. Climbing the […]
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Here are pictures from our first stop on the cruise, Cannes, France. As mentioned in this planning post, we immediately left Cannes upon arrival and headed to Monaco first. We used the train system for our travel for the day, and the first ride of the day was about an hour long to Monte Carlo, […]
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