Our plans to leave at 11 am were mostly met today...but we didn't come very close to making it to Salzburg by 1 pm. It seems that every slow moving vehicle which could have been on the road in front of us, was. We eventually arrived at the highway rest stop where we...
Bella Italia!!
We're on our way to Italy and the navi says we've only got 140 km to go. We started out at about 11 am this morning and intended to meet up with Steffen and Steffi at 1 pm at a rest stop outside of Salzburg, Austria. But what should have taken us 2 hours to drive took...
Off to the grandparents
Yesterday we spent most of the day preparing for the trip to Italy. That involved everything from making sure we had plenty of food for the dog to making sure all her toys and treats were packed...and then making sure we had everything for ourselves as well. So we...
On the road again…
Well, after not doing much traveling at all for a while, we will be traveling quite a bit in the coming week. We are taking a trip to Tuscany from Germany with the Defender, the dog and will be joined by two friends who are driving along in their VW bus.You might...
Another weekend of camping
We decided to use this weekend to practice what will happen when we have to set up and take down our whole collection of camping stuff so we packed everything up & found our way to Holland for the weekend. We had selected a camping site online a few days before...
Our new camping haven
We went camping again this weekend to prepare, train and just ready ourselves for our 3 week trip through Spain and Portugal. Since we intend to camp pretty much every night we're traveling, we know that we need to get everything down to an exact science so set-up,...
A weekend at the grandparents’
We went to visit grandma and grandpa this weekend. Hubbers had a birthday on Thursday and his dad had one on Friday. My mom also had one on Saturday along with hubber's grandmother but they were both in America for the event. Since Thursday was a holiday here in...
Football fever
Today the World Cup started here in Germany and of course there are a lot of people here which are all worked up about...including most of the people working in my husband's office. They're almost like children on Christmas morning, completely excited about...
Summer is here …. and we’re heading out!
We saw a dramatic improvement in weather over the last 24 hours here in Germany. Thank God! And it's only going to get better over the weekend. For us and doggo, as we are prone to call our little Newfie girl,that means taking the opportunity to get away for the...
The tent is here!
The tent finally got here today! Unfortunately it will still be raining until the weekend, so we won't be able to test the tent until then, at the earliest. We are very eager to see just how big the tent is and if it really only takes 10 minutes to set it up. But the...


