Year: 2017
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The Finale, Grand European River Cruise – Netherlands
Windmills at Kinderdijk It was a windy, chilly and rainy morning when Viking Bragi docked at Kinderdijk, our first stop in the Netherlands. The included tour was a rain or shine affair, so everyone grabbed provided umbrellas as our guide led us to the only place in the world with so many windmills so close…
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Grand European River Cruise Part 5 – Germany
We’re having a lot of fun socializing here in San Diego, so completing my river cruise posts has become a challenge. But I have to hurry up or risk forgetting what we did just this past October! Be prepared for a lot of pictures, for this post is loaded with them. So enjoy your favorite…
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Grand European River Cruise Part 4 – Germany
This is the 4th of 6 installments covering our European river cruise: For Grand European River Cruise Part 1 click here For Grand European River Cruise Part 2 click here For Grand European River Cruise Part 3 click here Looking back at our itinerary I realized we stopped at 8 cities in Germany along the…
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Grand European River Cruise Part 3 – Austria
This is the third installment of our European river cruise: For Grand European River Cruise Part 1 click here For Grand European River Cruise Part 2 click here We left Budapest and headed for Vienna, the capital of Austria. During the cruise program director’s port overview, we were intrigued enough to purchase an optional tour,…
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Grand European River Cruise Part 2 – Budapest, Hungary
With our cruise running Oct 7-21, we maximized our first European visit by adding extra days to explore our embarkation city, Budapest. We were glad we did, since our 6AM connection in Amsterdam had been canceled due to bad weather and we lost the rest of the day waiting for another flight. Fortunately we had booked our…
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Grand European River Cruise – Part 1
Long before Steve’s cancer was confirmed in March, we had already booked our Viking River Cruise in Central Europe. We’d heard details about Viking River Cruises from Rocky and Marsha, whom we’d met during our train ride across the Canadian rockies on the Rocky Mountaineer last year. Although Steve’s treatments cut things a bit close,…
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Healing and fun continue in New Mexico
For now, let me take you back two months to our time in New Mexico where Steve continued his recovery.  After a post-treatment follow-up with his oncologist, we were OK’d to finally get out of overheated Tucson. Steve wasn’t yet in top shape to drive Betsy, but we just had to move on. The city…
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Tough Times in Tucson- AZ
It’s been more than three months since my last post. We’ve been on a self-imposed blogging hiatus, as I just haven’t been motivated to write. We’ve been plenty active, it’s just that we were thrown a curve ball that forced us to re-focus on the more pressing issue – Steve’s radiation regimen. At this point he…
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Catching “The Wave!” – Kanab, UT
In late February I mentioned in a post that I had won two coveted hiking permits to hike Coyote Buttes North – aka “The Wave” – on June 4th in southern Utah.  I was giddy and jumping with joy, as these permits are not easy to get.  When Steve was diagnosed with cancer several weeks…
