December 10, 2012 – Nestbuilding Day Woke up to our first full day in Mexico, it’s warm, the sky is blue, and life is good. Except. Debbi has a determined look in her eye, which usually means lots of work for Steve. Time to go and buy all the groceries and housewares we’ll need to […]
December 8, 2012 Woo Hoo! Touchdown! Well, we survived another trip to Mexico without any major foo-foos. Got to the Westjet counter at 04:51 because we wanted to be first in line with all our extra bags, and we were. The very nice lady at the counter tried about 20 times to print out our
Moscow Day Two July 6, 2019 Another beautiful morning dawns, which is great as it’s Kremlin Day! After a leisurely breakfast, we take the bus down to the entrance to Red Square, and then stroll down along the beautiful grounds in front to the spot where we are to meet our guide, who is, of
Moscow Day One July 4-5, 2019 Morning dawns for the last time on our Trans-Siberian trip. We’re not done with trains, but Moscow is the official ‘end of the line’ for the Trans-Siberian. And we’re in Europe now, and it’s not raining! That might be a coincidence, but also maybe not… The wild country is
Yekaterinburg July 1-3, 2019 The train trip from Novosibirsk to Yekaterinburg is the second-longest of the trip at 18 hours, but it’s an overnight trip so there is lots of time for rubber-necking at the start and end of the trip, plus another excellent night’s sleep on a hard 18″ bed in a rocking, rolling
Novosibirsk June 28-30, 2019 Novosibirsk is a working-people’s city. We’re not expecting any great crush of tourists or tourist attractions, but it’s a good way to break up the VERY long train leg between Irkutsk and Yekaterinburg. That’s a 2-day run, and there are 3 cities to choose from if you want to break up
Krasnoyarsk June 25-27, 2019 Remember this? It is the ‘hot water’ on the train that everyone seeks for their noodles and instant coffee/tea. The trip from Irkutsk to Krasnoyarsk is a comfortable leg, leaving Irkutsk in the early evening and arriving at Krasnoyarsk in mid-afternoon of the following day. The only stressful part was getting
Lake Baikal June 24, 2019 Lake Baikal is definitely an adventure all by itself. It’s the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22–23% of the world’s fresh surface water. It contains more water than the North American Great Lakes combined. With a maximum depth of 1,642 m (5,387 ft), Baikal is the world’s deepest,
Irkutsk June 21-23, 2019 The train trip from Ulan Ude to Irkutsk is the shortest leg in our journey, and it’s all during the daytime (mid-morning to mid-afternoon), so we decided to go second-class as we wouldn’t be sleeping in the compartment. Our second-class compartment turned out to be identical to our previous first-class compartment,
Khabarovsk to Ulan-Ude (June 17-18, 2019) I’m posting some photos with little or no explanations. Some photos will be a wee bit blurry because we were, after all, going by on a train. These buildings are train stations. Beautiful. We didn’t pass a station that didn’t look like a period piece, and construction was going
