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To celebrate our friend Joe’s birthday a total of 8 of us went on a safari in Tanzania. Joe, Kaela, Jon, Jennifer, Brock, Denise, Cathy, and I spent about 5 days touring the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the world’s largest inactive,...

Straddling our April birthdays, Cathy and I took a family vacation with Oskar and his girlfriend, Isys, to Barcelona for a week. We stayed with our architect friends, Kay and Augusto, who have an apartment in the middle of the Gothic Quarter. They are both architects...

Cathy and I joined a bunch of friends to cheer on the USA Women's World Cup team in New Zealand and Australia in July/August 2023. Although the trip was great, the soccer was not. The USA Women's team exited the tournament sooner than anytime in their history.  We...

After 4 years of planning, multiple changes in our itinerary, and multiple Covid cancellations, Cathy and I finally got our European vacation in aboard a Viking River cruise from Belgium to the Netherlands. It got off to a rough start when we landed in Belgium…after...

To help celebrate our friend’s (Brock and Denise) 25th wedding anniversary, we, along with Doug and Janet, joined them on a transatlantic journey to Southampton, England, UK on the Queen Mary 2. The QM2 is the largest ocean liner every built, and carries 2,700...

Along with 5 other families, David, Cathy and Oskar visited France to attend the 2019 Women’s World Cup as part of the KKIFE tour. We started a little later than the group so Cathy could finish acting in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and missed the first USA game vs...

Celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary, Cathy and I arrived in Budapest, Hungary, a couple days before embarking on a Viking River Long Boat cruise up the Danube from Budapest to Passau, Germany. We arrived after flying all night and were able to get into our room...

What started out as a vacation to play golf in Scotland, ended up on a Viking River Cruise from Paris, France to Normandy on on the Seine River.Glorious weather, great accommodations, and being among recent and medieval history, this was a perfect vacation for an...

I was invited to help celebrate a milestone birthday in Norway. Kaela was turning 50 while her husband, Tai, was turning a young 47. Along with others from DC, Toronto, Norway, and the UK, we met in Oslo and then embarked on an epic bike ride, Rallarvegan, through the...

To celebrate David’s 50th birthday we took a family vacation to Europe.Starting in Prague in the Czech Republic, we spent a few days exploring the narrow and winding streets of the city that survived much of the bombing from WWII.Prague is a beautiful and surprisingly...

In October 2015, David and nine other architects from Maine toured Minneapolis and the Marvin Windows and Doors factory in Warroad, Minnesota. Ron Conterio, AW Hastings, and Jeremy Bate, Eldridge Lumber, sponsored and hosted this tour. Minneapolis, and neighboring...

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