Steven is ready to head home so we decided that we would try for the weekly BWI rotator flight on Tuesday out of Ramstein AFB. We’re to check out of the Moxy in Lausanne, Switzerland on Saturday, Oct. 15, and I really didn’t want to spend the entire weekend in Ramstein waiting for the flight…
Month: October 2022
Old Town Lausanne
The next day we woke and went down for breakfast that was included with our room. This hotel puts on a spread and it’s simply wonderful. Europeans sure know how to eat well! The hotel manager tells us to take the subway up one stop and we’ll be in Old Town without having to climb…
Change of Plans
After we left Artena, Italy on Wednesday, the plan was to head further down the country to the Calabria region to visit the city of Cosenza, the location where Steven’s grandmother was born. I had really wanted to find information on Catarina Stano for her last surviving daughter, Steven’s Aunt Mary, but he felt that…
Home of the Honored
First Look After leaving Rome on Sunday, a short 40 kilometers or 25 miles, we found ourselves in the ancient town of Artena, Italy. A “suburb” of Rome, Artena is really two cities. You have the lower half of the town, still old in years, but more modern. Then you have the upper part of…
The Eternal City – part 2
Yesterday’s walk took a toll on Steven, so he told me today that he didn’t want to do a bunch of walking – which meant I had to get him to where I wanted to be… then walk him. So on day two in Rome, we… I decided to pay for tickets for the Hop…
The Eternal City
At the train station in Milan, we had to get seat reservations to travel to Rome. I had already purchased a seven-day Europass to travel wherever we wanted… a choice of 33 countries. We have a month to travel to use those days up… you could go through three countries in one day if you…
Italy Bound
It’s not even been a week yet and I’m already confused. Did I stay in Milan or come straight to Rome? We left Landstuhl, Germany about 90 minutes later than I had planned because when we got on the train, I second-guessed myself and I walked us in one door and right back off. Turns…
Exploring to Exhaustion
Just when I was finishing up my blog post about landing in Ramstein and was thinking about heading back to bed for a bit, housekeeping tried to get inside the room… it was like 7:30am… I’m trying to get to the door in time (didn’t make it) to stop them from coming in and waking…
Touchdown at Ramstein Air Base
It is 5:38 Tuesday, Oct 4 local German time as I write this, but 10:38pm Monday, Oct 3, back home in Tennessee. My body’s internal clock thinks it’s still on West Tennessee time. I’ve been awake since 3:10am here… Oy vey! It’s been an exhausting but exciting past couple of days. We left Gatlinburg Sunday…
Family Vacay: Part 2 – Competing for Space A seats
After a fun-filled weekend with the family (said with the greatest love and just the slightest bit of sarcasm), the hubby and I left Gatlinburg at about 6:30 this morning (Sunday) and headed to Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI) with the intention of catching an early morning flight on Space A to Ramstein, Germany. After…
And Life Goes On... 