Alan's Place

The final destination of our grand Italian vacation was the beautiful city of Venice . They say that the farther you go North in Italy, the ...

While we stayed in Rome for the week, we made two day trips during those 7 days. Our first day trip (by way of a very comfortable high speed...

Well, things have been very busy for me and my family, but I have a few spare minutes and thought that I would update the blog on our bigges...

Wow, have I been slacking off on the blog lately, or what? I've been very busy at work and at home this last month, so please pardon the...

I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, with high hopes for a prosperous new year! I'm taking a couple (much needed) weeks...

[ Is this thing on? Hello? Check... 1... 2... 3... ] When we last left our intrepid band of family members, they were leaving the confines o...

After leaving Hood River, we had a relatively short four hour trip to our next destination - Silverdale, WA. My wife's parents live ther...

Breaking camp early in the morning on the 4th of July, we made the 8+ hour drive from Lake Shasta to Hood River, OR . Driving along the bank...

Other than camp and eat near-gourmet quality food (if I do say so myself) while at Lake Shasta, what else did we do? For each of the two ful...

Prior to this summer, our family had not driven farther than the distance from Oceanside to San Mateo, to visit my brother and his family up...

Over the weekend, I attended a conference in the suburbs of scenic Cleveland, Ohio. During our stay, we saw a few of the following sights: F...

So, I decided that since I had to cut my Christmas / New Year's vacation one week short (due to work) that now seemed as good a time as ...