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our first few days on the other side of the world

We arrived in Cape Town after an eleven hour flight, which was preceeded by an eight hour (waaay too long) layover in London. My aunt and two cousins met us at the airport and we took the long scenic way home to drop off our luggage. We revisted Simon's Town for lunch...

Off into the wild blue yonder

We leave for Cape Town tonite from JFK, finally arriving early Thursday morning (hopefully none the worse for wear!). Posts while we're gone are likely to be sporadic, but we'll post when able. Postscript: Right now we're posting from JFK after finally finding a...

Travel tech

Being a bit of a dork, I thought I'd post about some of the toys I'm taking with me on our trip: On the upper left is a creative zen vision w for watching movies and listening to mp3s on the plane, currently loaded with 15 movies and ~1,000 songs. The other benefit to...

the first leg of our journey

The drive to NY was blissfully uneventful except for the accidental trip into Philly (we missed the exit to the NJ Turnpike off I-95). Riesling slept most of the way and a stop for coffee and hot cocoa allowed us to make the 9.5 hour drive mostly awake. :) We arrived...

Schnauzer Claus

Since we are leaving soon we had an early Christmas in NY this weekend, and this "Schnauzer Claus" was one of our presents:

Everything but the kitchen sink

Riesling is none-too-pleased with all the luggage we have out at the moment - she's probably thinking that we're leaving her behind again, so she's taking matters into her own paws. Evidence: Hopefully the long car ride to NY will go smoothly - we're off tonight!

look out world!

We have been making lists and packing for the last few days (when we haven't been watching several episodes of Arrested Development to free up some space on our DVR), so that doesn't leave much time for updates here. We do plan on posting periodically over the course...

Whoa doggie

I've been experimenting with my new lens, and Riesling has been the model for most of my experimentation. A few selections below: We are always asked how old Riesling is - when we reply "5" they think 5 months, not years, because of activity like this......

Our Itinerary

2024 Trips

San Diego, CA (Jan)
Sarasota, FL (Feb)
Valencia, Spain (Mar)
Mallorca (Apr)
Croatia (May)
Faroe Islands (Aug)
London, UK (Sept)
Bari, Italy (Sept)
Rome, Italy (Oct)
Frankfurt, Germany (Oct)

2022 Trips

Florida (Feb)
NC Mountains (Apr)
Washington DC (Apr)
Valencia, Spain (May)
Hilton Head, SC (May)
Pacific NW (Jun)
Long Island (Jul)
Florida (Sept)
Chicago (Sept)
Poland (Sept)
NC Mountains (Nov)
Euro Xmas Markets (Dec)

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Eric and Leandra in Orient Point, NY :)

Hello! This website chronicles the travel adventures of a computational biologist and a WordPress website developer (with past entries of our 😇 rescued mini schnauzers, Riesling and Pasha).

We’ve steadily increased our travel over the last several years and that is the focus of our blog currently, but you can read older ‘daily life‘ and ‘canine‘ posts by clicking on those links.

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Eric and Leandra in Orient Point, NY :)