Blogs from Cool, California, United States, North America

We hosted another fine couple, Art and Kira at our home in Cool, California USA. They are from Portugals' west coast town of Cascais, just west of Lisboa on the Atlantic coast. Art works as a graphic designer and part time movie maker with several short comic movie clips and one major film to his credit “Bad to the Bone” - a slapstick comedy about a wanna be rock & roll star and social misfit who goes around pushing small children off their bicycles and throwing his pet cat around after swinging the poor creature by the tail (animal lovers, please do not send me e-mail messages about cruelty to animals, stuffed toy cats and cinematic editing was used to create the scene. We also have a cat and we love animals). Kira, who works for ... read more

Holly and I hosted Dr. Harald Marencic and his wife Angelika for three nights at our home in Cool. We met through The Hospitality Club at www.hospitalityclub.org prior to their Northern California Gold Country visit. Harald is a wildlife biologist and Deputy Secretary with the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat in Wilhelmshaven, Northern Germany. Angelika, a german school teacher with a very british accent, teaches English language and History. We learned about the coastal town of Wilhelmshaven in Northern Germany, the North Sea and the Wadden Islands. Our guests like hiking, biking, camping and; as we do, hosting travelers. They are warm, kind and friendly people, we had dinner together during their second of a three night stay. I played grill master and treated Harald and Angelika to grilled T-bone steaks followed by cheese and wine, we ... read more

Hello Family and Friends, This will be our last communication from California before our Europe travel adventure through England, Belgium, The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and The Netherlands. We’ll be celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary. It’s early Monday morning April 11, 2005. We will be flying out of San Francisco Airport direct to London Heathrow this afternoon. We will post to our journal every few days (or at least will attempt to, photos will be posted later). So you may keep up with our travels, you will be notified by email that we have made a journal entry. If you wish NOT to be notified, just let us know by using the Contact Cool Travelers link on each page we will take you off our list, believe us we understand. Otherwise, we are looking forward to ... read more