PODS, Trains and Gardens

After depositing our rental car through the exit entrance, we made our way to the hotel to check in before heading to London. We had to catch a POD, Carol said. My mind went immediately to the movie with the aliens and the old guys in the swimming pool… seasoned folks will understand. The POD…

Back to Germany

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…

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

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…

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…

Vacay 2022

Part 1: Family Weekend The hubby and I joined our oldest son and his family in Gatlinburg for a fun family vacation, Sept. 29 – Oct 1. With four grandbabies, ages 2 to 11, and their parents, there was plenty of adventure! We rented a three-bedroom VRBO in Gatlinburg, complete with two sets of bunk…