Archive for the 'travel' Category

Dallas Aquarium

After everything was ready for the Condo Warming party on Saturday, Leanne took us to the Dallas Aquarium. We’d only been one other time (with Diane and Jonathan when they still lived in the town she liked to call “Louisville”).
It was super-crowded and full of children whose adults don’t parent them, but we still had [...]

DFW, Again

We are leaving town at 5pm to head back to Dallas. This time, we get to spend the weekend with Leanne and attend her Condo Warming!
yippie!

Austin Trip

Emil had a workshop—Computer Forensics, watch out CSI!—in Austin a couple of weeks ago. I joined him for a couple of days of shooting while he was in class. On Thursday, I went to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the botanical gardens at Zilker Park. I also considered the sculpture gardens, but the [...]

Salzburg

Salzburg was everything the pictures and movies show with the bonus of actually being there. We stayed in a ski lodge just outside of town (6km) so a bus ride was our mode of transportation to and from Salzburg. Staying in the lodge in the off-season was excellent. We practically had the place to ourselves [...]

Orient Express - the real one

We traveled from Paris to Salzburg via the Orient Express. This was an overnight train that we boarded at 6pm so we had a little dinner in our sleeping quarters before enjoying the scenery. We were due to be in Salzburg at 5:30am and when we awoke at 6:30am thought we had missed our stop. [...]

Paris

Paris was very beautiful and had tons of stuff to do. We could have spent another four days doing things not yet done. The subway was a blast to ride making our passes extremely helpful. The Eiffel Tower was of course one of our main hot spots and was better than expected. We spent hours [...]

Paris & Salzburg

Lori and Emil traveled to Paris and Salzburg in June 2004
Our trip started out as a tag-along with another group that was going to England and Paris because they needed to fill their quota in order to keep their reduced ticket prices. After I started researching the trip I decided we should go see what [...]