Showing posts with label road trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label road trip. Show all posts
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Where to Take Your Parents in Alsace-Lorraine

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Colmar, France In typical PorterBall fashion, we packed a lot into my parent's last trip . After trying out Swiss life , we swun...
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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Offbeat Northwest: Camping in Montana

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Happy Memories Camping I love camping, but I've never been in Germany . This is partly because we moved to Berlin with 2 suitcases...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

Great Signs of America

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We never reveled in the "America - fuck yeah!" attitude of some of our gun-wielding, flag waving, big truck driving brethren ...
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Friday, July 5, 2013

Offbeat Washington: Leavenworth - A German Village in America

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Growing up in Washington State, trips to Leavenworth are practically mandated. Christmas, summer, or for one of the largest Oktoberfests in...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Offbeat Washington: Spokane

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Even though Ian & I are native Washingtonians, we have never been tempted to actually visit Spokane (pronounced Spo-Can or SpoCompton f...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Berlin: By Foot, By BVG, By Bike, By Car, By Boat, By Train, By Plane

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I've talked so much about our adventures outside of the city lately (like new favorite Naples ), I haven't been giving Berlin i...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Getting Down with Nature just Outside Berlin

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It's funny, I have already spent 10 years driving practically everyday. This is common as an American. It is not common in Berlin .  ...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Buda Love

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Once again, we have decided to rate the cities we are visiting with the parental units . The first leg of our mini- central European tou...
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Leaving on a Jet Plane...

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Paired with last night's karaoke escapades and tomorrow's flight, I got a little John Denver on the mind: We are taking the par...
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Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Parents are Coming, The Parents are Coming!

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It has been a lonnnnnnnggggg 11 months of Skype video chats, e-mails, and occasional phone calls. But today, my parents are an 1 1/2 away f...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Damn!berg

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Continuing on our long drawn out story of our road trip through Cologne, Belgium , and France .... On the car ride back to Berlin from Fr...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

A Little bit of German, A Little bit of French - Colmar

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Crime Scene in Bordeaux After the Belgium beer run , we thought it was time to venture back into France . The country of wine, the hu...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Belgium Beer Run

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Once again, I am off planning other trips instead of finishing the one I just got back from. Let's pick up from our impromptu road tr...
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Friday, August 5, 2011

Ferries, Trams, but mostly an Automobile

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We're back! I don't know about a triumphant return, but an epic trip was had. And (so far) no issues with the car rental ! That...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

California Dreaming

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Preparing to return to Berlin , we took one last hurrah before trading the car for the UBahn . A road trip from Seattle to Southern Califo...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Recent Developments

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The high cost of transportation etc in Iceland has forced us to decide on renting a car. So excited! 6:45am Arrive in Iceland AUTO!- pick ...