Kris Chat - Kris

Hi There! I've always enjoyed travel. My first world wind trip to Europe was in 1995 and I visited several countries including England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands. After this trip I vowed to do at least one international travel trip every five years and to see places more in depth. In 2000 I spent three weeks touring England and Scotland. This year, 2005, I spent two weeks in Spain.

Every year is the annual 'girl's trip', and I've been fortunate enough to travel with my fellow single girlfriends on excursions to Maui, Grand Cayman, St. Thomas and St. John, and Barbados.

I also enjoy weekend travel getaways right here in the States. Included, at least a couple times a year, are trips involving wine-tasting within my home state of California, from the southern coastal region up to the Napa and Sonoma Valley regions.

Cheers!
Kris

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By Kris Chat
April 29th 2006

Puerto Vallarta - Annual Girl's Trip North America » Mexico » Jalisco » Puerto Vallarta

PV Boardwalk
Pillars

This year's Annual Girl's Trip to Puerto Vallarta was fantastic! We stayed at Velas Vallarta, an all-inclusive resort. [View Full Entry]

By Kris Chat
April 25th 2006

Austin - My New Home North America » United States » Texas » Austin

Austin Mural
Located off First Street.

I've lived in Austin now for eight months! Since I've been acting like a tourist in my own city, thought I might share a few of my 'Best of Austin' pics. [View Full Entry]

By Kris Chat
November 14th 2005

New York City - a Quick Visit North America » United States » New York » New York » Manhattan

Bryant Park
Ice Skating Rink

Monday morning I woke up, after sleeping in past my intended wake up time, quite sore from the miles we walked the previous day, but refused to let that hinder me from walking the same amount or more for the second day in a row. My Swiss friends were off to work and so I was solo today. I arrived at the same central bus station as the day before and felt I had good bearings right away. I headed the opposite direction from my walking tour the day before, planning a walk in the general direction of MOMA, which was [View Full Entry]

By Kris Chat
November 13th 2005

New York City - a Quick Visit North America » United States » New York » New York » Manhattan

View of Manhattan
Manhattan Skyline

I was traveling to New Jersey for work, so I decided to take a couple of extra days to tour Manhattan while so close by. Conveniently my hotel in Secaucus was near a bus route that was a 30 minute ride into Manhattan’s Port Authority bus station. While waiting for the bus Sunday mid-morning I met up with three Swiss men there on a marketing business trip, which were staying at my same hotel in N.J. and also took an extra ‘free’ day to tour Manhattan. They had no specific plan however for seeing the city, and since I had some [View Full Entry]

By Kris Chat
May 30th 2005

Henderson and Las Vegas - Long Weekend Trip North America » United States » Nevada » Henderson

Henderson Hyatt Resort

Ready for our second 'summer adventure', Linda and I headed for Henderson and Las Vegas for another long weekend of fun. Since it was a holiday weekend we decided to get a jump on things and so came in late Thursday night. We checked into the Boulder Station hotel, since we knew we'd just be sleeping there. The next morning we headed out to Henderson, where we stayed the next three nights at the beautiful Hyatt resort. It was pretty much a party weekend, in which we stayed out late every night, slept in, and then did some moderate sightseeing during [View Full Entry]

By Kris Chat
May 16th 2005

Chicago - Long Weekend Trip North America » United States » Illinois » Chicago

Chicago Skyline
View from the Sears Sky Tower

The 'summer season' starts out with Linda and me taking a trip to Chicago, one of our new favorite cities! Our hotel was the Hyatt, conveniently located on the Miracle Mile. We flew in Friday, checked into our hotel, and then headed to Rush Street for drinks and dinner at Le Colonial. The food there was delicious! Afterwards we wandered down Rush Street trying to decide which of the many bars to visit, and decided upon Syn, where we immediately made several new friends. The drinks were flowing, the vibe upbeat and fun, and the dance music 70s and 80s. It [View Full Entry]

By Kris Chat
May 6th 2005

Gibraltar Europe » Gibraltar

Gibraltar Ape
The Alpha Male

Our last day of fun! Today we tour Gibraltar. Upon arrival we were met by mini-tour buses to take us on our 90-minute tour of ‘the Rock’, which wound it’s way up near to the top, discussing a lot of the Rock’s political and military history, with the following stops: - Europa Point, the view point of the straits of Gibraltar and Morocco (but we couldn’t see anything as it was so over cast) - St. Michael’s Cave - The Apes Den St. Michael’s Cave has a good sampling of stalactites and stalagmites, but probably the most interesting thing is [View Full Entry]

By Kris Chat
May 5th 2005

Ronda and Marbella Europe » Spain » Andalusia » Ronda

Rondo
partial view of gorge, homes, and countryside

Today we tour Rondo, a much larger Andalusian white-washed village than Casares, but with more sights to explore. Here we oooh’d and aaah’d the not to be missed view of the El Tajo (the gorge) and its 18th century gorge spanning bridge, the Puente Nuevo, which connects the older Moorish part of town with the more modern section. We also viewed the oldest bullring in Spain, built in 1784, still used for bullfights today. The place was packed solid with tour groups when we arrived, and so our tour seemed somewhat hectic, but then we had some free time to explore [View Full Entry]

By Kris Chat
May 4th 2005

Casares Village and Esteponia Europe » Spain

Casares Village

Today we tour the quaint lovely village of Casares (it’s probably immediately apparent how much I enjoyed this tour). The ride up to it is about 40 minutes up through the Sierra Bermeja reserve, which is gorgeous countryside, and with skies full of eagles and other birds. The bus takes up a long windy road, and as we approach our destination we turn around a bend and there is a breath-taking view of the white-washed Andalusian unspoiled village of Casares, definitely a ‘Kodak moment.’ The town has windy, narrow, cobblestoned streets, that lead up from the main square near [View Full Entry]

By Kris Chat
May 3rd 2005

Tangiers in a day Africa » Morocco

Kris with snake charmer

We tackle our Tangiers today, via the Coast Africa tour. We talked our new five girlfriends into joining us for the tour, so on this day we are eight. Although still quite hot outside I wisely opted to wear jeans instead of my usual leg-baring shorts, knowing we are going to a country populated mostly by Muslims. This is the longest we will journey in a day trip, as it took us about 3 hours by bus to get to the border crossing, then an hour by high-speed ferry to get to the Moroccan ferry port. The Tangiers experience was overall [View Full Entry]

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