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 were meeting […]

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 […]

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 packed everything up in the Defender […]

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 wonder where […]

Well if there may have been any doubt in our minds that we are not ready for kids, we proved that to ourselves yesterday. Not only did Mary, our Siamese mix, somehow escape the house, but we managed to leave the door open after finding her and Ayla was apparently roaming the neighborhood for a […]