This is the day we bade farewell to the lovely city of Tashkent, flying to the western city of Urgench. Flying domestically was…interesting. Airport security was this…. Place everything on the conveyor – suitcase, carry-on, breakfast – and then walk through the detector. Wait…breakfast?? Yep, people put their s...
Continue reading“The day we became millionaires”. Misleading statement……. We exchanged $200 USD and got back 2,180,000 Uzbeki Cym (pronounced “SOOM”). The bills were 100K and 5K notes, so we ended up with a stack of 37 bills. Talk about a fat stack! (We were told you used to have to bring a back-pack to carry your...
Continue readingWe appear to have left the laptop’s power brick at home, so this is sadly, likely the last post this trip. (i.e. unfortunately you won’t be able to follow live, it will be an “after the trip” look. We’ll get the days in as quickly as we can…
Continue readingOur first full day in the Balkans (specifically Albania) didn’t disappoint! After an amazing breakfast at the hotel we set out on a walking tour of Tirana. The architecture in the city has a very eclectic variety – modern buildings, buildings that scream “I was built during communist times”, and everything in bet...
Continue readingOkay, won’t be much of a blog today, as this was the travel period to start off the adventure. We flew out on Saturday, around 11:50ish in the morning. We flew to Chicago (O’Hare) with about a 3-hour layover. We then caught a flight on Austrian Air to Vienna, Austria landing around 8:30 Sunday morning,...
Continue readingToday was our lazy day as we had no set plans until the evening. One of us was up early for coffee & breakfast and the other three trickled down to breakfast at their leisure. Once everyone was around and ready we walked to the downtown area, which is where we started out our first...
Continue readingWhat a day this was!!! We headed out to territory unknown today – the southeast coast. Our first stop was at Gljúfrabúi and Seljalandsfoss – beautiful waterfalls within the same area. Gljúfrabúi is unique because it doesn’t fall over the side as most do, it drops into an opening that is mostly obscured from passers...
Continue readingAnother day of adventure for the Collins/Groves combo! It was mostly a day of driving so our narrative is a bit brief. Today’s journey was to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula on the west coast of Iceland. The peninsula has an amazing array of topography – mountains, waterfalls, lava fields, dormant volcanoes, beaches ...
Continue readingDay 2 was a long, busy day. We picked up our rental car in the morning and headed out for the Golden Circle – Þingvellir National Park, Geysir, and Gullfoss – with a few extra stops along the way. Just getting there was an adventure – the car is a diesel with variable transmission therefore...
Continue readingFirst full day in the land of ice and fire! We are honored to have Tim’s cousins – Sondra & Blake Groves – join us on this short adventure. Tim’s birthday and Sondra’s birthday fall in the same week so this will be one heckuva celebration week for them! The temperature when we landed was...
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