Well friends, our adventure begins with….Felons and Funerals Phoenix, Arizona As many of you probably saw on the national news yesterday we had a felon loose in the Phoenix Airport. Terminal 4 (our terminal for flying Southwest) was on lockdown for three hours until they finally apprehended the guy for robbing a gas station… geez! Flights were cancelled, no one was allowed to enter the airport grounds…helicopters overhead, what a mess… fortunately for us we had 24 hours before we would need to fly out. Friday, 1PM Today, after months of planning, the time finally came for us to leave for Asia. Our "driver” Ash, picked us up for the airport. We only have a 10 minute drive door to door, so it should have been a quick jaunt to departures. But alas, this was not ... read more

Well, it's been awhile since our last adventure so time to tune up the old website and start thinking about ASIA!! Let's see if this works.... read more

Well, we had an uneventful (thank heavens) trip down to St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. I had to do two days of training for some of the educators here but once that was over we started a mini-vacation ;-) Our first hotel was the Divi Carina on the east end of the island. Beautiful setting, long beach but we didn't see much there as I was at the Casino across the street doing training all day and Cope was teaching online. Since there wasn't any internet access in the room he had to do it from the lobby with the caribbean breezes blowing and the sea just outside...tough duty. But yesterday with Cope driving on the left side of the road (shades of New Zealand) we moved to the north side of the island ... read more

Thanks to Norweigan Airlines we left Copenhagen and landed safely at Orly Airport in Paris, France. Our first adventure happened as we were trying to get a taxi. None of the taxi's wanted to take 4 people...but then a driver stepped up to the plate and said, "get in, I'll take you" and presto we were heading down the highway into Paris while listening to jazz. Adventure number 2 came right on the heels of the taxi adventure. We got to our hotel and it was in an...well... shall we say "undesirable neighborhood", but the good part was that we could walk outside and buy just about anything that a streetwalker would need LOL, the rooms were pretty bad but it was the mouse in the "breakfast" room that did it, so we only stayed one ... read more

Today we docked in Gdynia, Poland. It was a heartwarming day for our friend Dave. His family left Poland for America just over 100 years ago. Dave had never been here and although we did not get to see the actual town where his family lived, Bydgoszcz, we saw good deal of the farming country which we think is similar. First thing we headed out of the port and through Gdansk about 2 hours south to Malbork Castle of the Teutonic Order. This was the first castle that we’ve seen that reminded us of Knights in shining armor ;-) And…in fact Knights actually lived there. There was a Grand Master elected for life and 200 Knights. The castle covers 50 acres and sits between a river and a lake. Water from the castle came from the ... read more