On the first Saturday of the new year 2016, Doug and I found ourselves joining a line of cars waiting to get into Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We were hoping to have one of those spectacular winter sunrises that would…
It was hard for us to appreciate the beautiful city of Bern because it was so hot the day we visited. Air temperatures were climbing toward 100 degrees and the cobblestone streets were even hotter. Nevertheless, we pressed on, finding shade under the arched covered…
Even though it has been two months since the last Switzerland post, we still want to blog the entire trip. During the last eight weeks, we took time to learn a new video editing system, improve photo editing skills and learn how to use several…
July 7, 2015. With the last views of Lake Geneva behind us, we head back toward Vevey then north. The route to Gruyères takes us through a beautiful, broad, flat farming region with Alpine foothills rising on either side. Twenty five miles ahead is the…
With no activity for so long, you might have figured we gave up our multimedia posting effort. I thought this would be an easy one: gather the few pictures we had of Château de Chillon and have a slideshow up in a day or so, but…
Technology has thwarted us a bit lately, but we remain committed to the task of blogging our summer trip. The YouTube videos you have seen so far are courtesy of Microsoft Movie Maker, but I am in a remote location and my laptop does not…
