Our Gate 1 Tour officially starts today. After a practically inedible breakfast at the hotel,  we headed to Chellah which is a World Heritage site. It is the ruins of a Roman acropolis and a Muslim Necropolis. It is believed to have been settled by the Romans in 40AD but possibly the Phoenicians and/or Carthaginians…

We have added a new continent to our list of visited places: Africa. But we are not on a safari….we are in Morocco! We flew from Denver to JFK to Amsterdam to Casablanca. The airport in Amsterdam was so cool. It looked like an upscale mall with neat seating and light displays. Check out this…

We decided to make a big push home so we could make a stop in Colorado. So we drove about 10 hours on Friday with an interesting stop for lunch. Buzz was in the mood for some Chicken Fried steak before we left the South. So we got off the Interstate at the only decent…

So today was supposed to be the hottest day of the week so we decided to go for a dip. But first, back to Franklin’s Barbecue. We pull up and the line was as long as it was on Saturday but it seemed less “dense”. So we got in line and the manager comes out…

Austin….what an interesting town. First off, it is much bigger than we expected. It is quite a large city (almost a million people) and it has so many attractions, music venues, and restaurants, it is a little overwhelming at first. We checked into our clean but very, very dated condo on Lake Travis which is…

A 30 minute drive through the surprisingly beautiful countryside led us to the Palo Duro Canyon State Park. (Side note: I say “surprisingly beautiful” because my only impression of Texas is Houston….in the summer. All I remember is flat, you could see forever, and hot, the whole atmosphere shimmering with the heat. I thought I…

Hello all you out there in Internet Land!! It has been more than 4 months since our last post and lots has changed. We have moved into a house in the mountains outside of Boulder, Colorado. We are getting the boxes unpacked and beginning our new life in Colorado. We had a fairly easy winter…

First off, we can not thank all of you enough for your support and encouragement. Your kind words made us smile and helped pull us through some times when things were not going as planned. One thing about travelling in South East Asia is you must be very flexible. Do not expect things to happen…

A quick 50 minute flight and we were in Siem Reap. Siem Reap is a much bigger, more modern, bustling town that we had expected. It’s a nice place, very clean by Cambodia standards. Our hotel here has only been opened for a couple of months so it is nice and sparkling new but the…

The border between Vietnam and Cambodia may be invisible but the difference was pretty clear. As part of our Mekong tour, our guide met us at the dock and the sight seeing began. We went to the Presidential Palace which was beautiful and reminded us of Thailand. We didn’t have too much time left so…