Travel

Here’s the sixth post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it! Sunday, October 5, 2025 I was very excited to visit the Lake District because, having been an English major, I spent some time studying the works…

Charming lane in York. I wonder how those umbrellas fared in the storm!

Here’s the fourth post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it! We rose early and were on the road by 7:30 to return our rental car at Heathrow. We had so much trouble getting out of the…

Here’s the third post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it!

Here’s the second post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it!

Here’s the first post sharing our adventures in the British Isles and Ireland from September 29 to October 17, 2025, for genealogy, business, and sightseeing. Hope you enjoy it! September 29-30, 2025 The first day of our three-week adventure started as we pulled out of our driveway at around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, September 29,…

Here’s an honest look at our Australia/New Zealand adventure.

(Sunday, March 23, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad Another hearty hotel breakfast this morning. I will really miss that. I won’t even tell you what I had every morning, but I sure don’t want to have my cholesterol checked for a while. We had some time to kill before our waka cultural tour…

(Saturday, March 22, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad If you’ll recall from Day 12, about half of the people in our tour group did not receive their luggage when we arrived in New Zealand. It had been taken off the plane in Melbourne, because the aircraft was too heavy. We were informed four…

(Friday, March 21, 2025) by Ann Silverthorn with Jim DeDad Bits ‘n Bobs from Cam (and Ann): Our first stop on the way to Mount. Cook was Arrowtown, a former gold-rush town. It has a charming main street with many cute boutiques and coffee shops. There was also a historic Chinese village and high-tech toilets.…