Blogs from Richland, Washington, United States, North America - page 2

Geo: 46.2741, -119.274Hmm, keep wondering if I've forgotten anything... 4 hours till we leave, am hoping I've remembered everything. We have a short connection in Paris, only about 50 minutes to change terminals, hope we can make it, that's probably the main thing causing me a bit of anxiety, but am going to consider it just part of our adventure! Not sure why they schedule it that way, we have to go through customs and security again there... oh, well, adventure waiting for us even on the plane ride ;-) I still have a few Paris metro tickets left over, I put them in my purse just in case we get "stuck" in Paris, too bad!Will see you later!... read more

Geo: 46.2741, -119.274Well, I thought I'd write a few observations that we noticed while in France. Really not any big, glaring, huge differences since we're all human beings living on the same planet :-)... just interesting sometimes slight differences.THEY LOVE DOGS!! this is coming from a non-animal person that does, and has had animals. Interesting to see them take them into the stores and carry them on the metro take them to the park to play.... which leads to... they don't always clean up after them when they do their business on the street. I had heard conflicting reports before we left on this one and I didn't find that it was all over the place, but it wasn't that unusual to need to look where you walked... (our walking tour guide mentioned that there are ... read more

Geo: 46.2741, -119.274It's 12 days and counting, Lots of last minute details to wrap up such as getting this TravelPod up and running. Looking forward to being able to use an American keyboard in Paris this year compared to the European one in Italy last year! It took a few Euros trying to figure that out! I'm planning on using the ones at Fat Tire Bike Tours in Paris, they are owned by Americans I believe and you can use their facilities to get on the internet, so hopefully all will go well with posting this trip. If not I'll do the best I can!... read more

Geo: 46.2741, -119.274Back again! Thought I'd fill in the gaps and then finish out the trip. So sorry about all the misspellings and wrong grammar! I was paying by the minute and had to be fast, that with the different keyboard really had me! are those excuses good enough?? :) May 31:Mauro, our apt. manager met us at the airport when we arrived. A little apprehensive/ curious about the upcoming ride into Roma, as we had heard about the driving.... He drove 120 km and a little faster. I guess that's 80 and above... people were passing us.... no turn-signaling to change lanes by anyone, motorcycles just drive inbetween the cars, not in their own lanes.....Found Piazza Navona, went into some churches there, walked into the Pantheon, WOW! very impressive, Campo Di'Fiore...June1:Took a bus to the ... read more

Geo: 46.2741, -119.274Well, we have 3 days, 2 hours and 19 minutes to go till take off! Right now I'm just trying to get everything in one carry on bag and figure out this travel blog. I will try to post an update every couple of days if I can find an internet connection as we're traveling along. I have no idea how that is going to work so if you see no more messages just assume "technical difficulties" arose! Hopefully more to come in a few days!... read more