Author: KarenKratz

May 8 We arrived in the city of Košice (koh-shits-ka) in the afternoon and were picked up by my cousin MerriAnn and her husband Ken. They drove us to our hotel, Villa Angel, in Rožňava. The hotel owner and her daughter, who spoke English, met us at the entrance and showed us to our room,…

11/8 Punta Arenas We arrived in Punta Arenas, Chile a day early, having learned our lesson from the crazy switcharoos that happened to us on the last trip abroad. We met up with some of our photography workshop group at the Apart Hotel Endurance for our first night. We walked about town, down to the…

8/31 We got to sleep in until 5:30am, have breakfast, then board the little boats along with our luggage, to take a trip up river to get to the location where we originally put in to head to the flotel. I was encouraged to take a potty break, but after looking at the loos, I…

We took a little trip to the Pantanal region of Brazil… We lost count of the wildlife we saw – until we got home and counted them in all of our 28,000 (between the two of us) photos. At the end of this diary entry I will post information about how we got here, and…

6/11Friendship Hill National Historic Site was our first stop today. Albert Gallatin left Switzerland to explore the new American land. He was a surveyor. He was able to acquire land which he named Friendship Hill, and built his home there in 1789. Over the years new additions were built. Gallatin was a state legislator, and…

6/9We made a quick stop at the Gateway Arch National Park in downtown St. Louis first thing this morning. We got lucky and found a great parking spot close to the Arch, and I went inside to get a stamp in the book while Alan took Aardi and got a photo of the park sign….