It’s been rather overcast today which was not necessarily a bad thing since we wanted to take Ayla with us to Grado for the shopping excursion without it being too hot. We found the market we were looking in for full of fresh local produce and other local products and bought quite a few things […]

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 […]