Blogs from South Holland, Netherlands, Europe - page 49

PUT YOUR CURSOR ON THE ABOVE MAP AND YOU CAN MOVE IT TO BETTER ORIENT YOURSELF. YOU CAN CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE IT, THEN GO BACK TO THE JOURNAL OR GO THROUGH THE PHOTOS (CLICK ON THE NUMBERS AT THE TOP) IN THAT ENLARGED FORMAT. Again, this is part of my attempt to chronicle our five years of living outside the USA (June 2001 - June 2006). I've already done our final year, which was South Africa (click on "Previous Entries" top left of this blog page and you can see other blog entries). Now I'm going back to the beginning, looking through old journals and photos to put our adventures, one by one, into blog form. MORE NETHERLANDS This is the second and final installment of our first year (June 2001 - August ... read more

Our last trip from our home in Boblingen was to Holland. I had been accepted for a job at the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels, where we would be moving in July. Joining us on the trip would be my sister Carol, who recently graduated from college and came to visit on her way to Thailand. My Mom also came. She was returning from the States on an emergency health trip with my Dad, whose previously undiagnosed high blood pressure had started to affect his health. Dad returned directly to Thailand, but Mom stopped for two weeks to join us. 26 May 1984 Saturday. We drove from Boblingen to Woerden, the Netherlands, where we arrived mid-afternoon at the boat dock where we would begin our week long journey on a barge through the canals of ... read more