21 APRIL 2016
JOEL TOOK US TO THE AIRPORT AT 6,,, FLEW TO LOS ANGELES 45 MINUTES...BEST WESTERN
BEST HOTEL WE EVER STAYED IN....PERFECT AIRPORT SHUTTLE....GREAT STAFF...GREAT ROOM GREAT BREAKFAST....EVERYONE HAPPY TO DO THE JOB...CLEAN...WONDERFUL
22 APRIL 2016
BREAKFAST AT LA WESTERN SAUSAGE AND EGGS...SHUTTLE TO AIRPORT...50 FLIGHTS ON THE BOARD...ONLY ONE DELAYED...GUESS WHOSE....LATER ALTERED IT TO ON TIME KLM LA TO AMERSTERDAM 9 HOURS...TWO STORY FLIGHT GOOD.
23 APRIL 2016
GREAT FLIGHT...GREAT STAFF ON TIME.....HAVE TO WAIT FOR INCOMING PASSENGERS ON THE AIRPORT WAITING FOR ARRIVAL TO TAKE THE BUS TO BRUSSELS TO START OUR EXTENSTION TRIP THEY STILL SELL TULIPS AT THE AIRPORT....NICE BUS TRIP 3 HOURS....BORDER FROM HOLLAND TO BELGUIM LIKE THE BORDER BETWEEN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO...GREAT INFO FROM THE GUIDE ON BELGIUM AND ITS HISTORY ...PROMISSED FREE MEAL AND MEETING AT 6 ...MAYBE NOT.
SHERATON....UGLY....SHOWER CORD BROKE...TUB DONT DRAIN...ELECTRICITY FOR COMPUTER DIFFERENT .....THEY CAME COMPUTER UP ...GARY TURNER DIED...NICE WAY TO START THE TRIP
REFRIG DONT WORK....HOW DO I GET THESE ROOMS.....MEAL AND MEETING MAY GO AT 6...5 NOW
TRIP AND SYMPHONEY SUNDAY WE HOPE.
24 APRIL 2017
SUNDAY IN BRUSSELS....WHAT A DAY....VANTAGE PAID FOR BREAKFAST AND CITY TOUR...MADE SANDWICHS AT BREAKFAST FOR LUNCH...COLIN....SENSATIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORIC CITY AND LOVE FOR OLD BUILDINGS...IT SNOWED...IT SLEETED...IT RAINED...THE SUN SHINED...DID 4 HOURS ...WALKED SOME....MET FRIEND MARCIA....WENT TO SYMPHONEY...3 OF US...HISTORIC OLD HALL...MAHLER AND SCHUMAN.....WONDERFUL.....LONG ...WHAT A THEATRE 1919...GOT ADDRESS OF ARCHETICT ...GOT A PICTURE OF HIS MUSEUM HOME....INTERNET AT HOTEL A MESS...DINNER TONIGHT.....DONE
25 APRIL 16
LEFT OVER FROM SUNDAY...BIG SYMPHONY THEATRE...SEATS IN BALCONY BEHIND ORCHESTRA ALLOWING FOR GREAT ANANYSIS OF INSTRUMENTS PLAYED....JANET LIKED THE FOUR DRUMMERS....I DID NOT
25 APRIL 16
BREAKFAST AT SHERATON...ITS 120$.....A NIGHT....MADE SANDWICHS FOR LUNCH...BUS....FRONT ROW SEATS....COMING AND GOING TO GHENT....GUIDE COLLIN...WORLD CLASS HISTORIAN...SPEAKS FOUR LANGUAGES....KNOWS HISTORY...WONT QUIT TALING..HE HAS WON ME OVER...JANET CANT FIGURE OUT WHY WE MADE THE TRIP....NICE CITY TOUR....WONT QUIT RAINING...COBBLE STONE STREETS EVERYWHERE....GREAT CHURCH AND ARCHITECTURE....AT MACDONALDS FOR COFFEE ICE AND OUR BREAKFAST SANDWICHS....3 STORIES...TOLIET ON THE THIRD FLOOR....RAIN AND STAIRS AND MY KNEES WORLD CLASS ISSUE....A GUY 85 ON TRIP HAD BOTH KNEES DONE....LOVED IT...ME NEXT...DID NOT SLEEP LAST NIGHT ...DID AN HOUR ON BUS AND 3 HOURS AT HOTEL....GYRO GREEK SUPPER...CHARGED 50 CENTS TO DO VISA...ICE CREAM TO HERE...CANT GET LVEN TO ENGLISH...WILL TRANSFER.
26 APRIL 16
27 APRIL 16
NICE BREAKFAST NEW NICE FOLKS....UP 3 TIMES TO PEE MAY BE SLEEP YET.
TWO ON BOAT TALKS...WATER MANAGEMENT AND WINDMILLS AT KINDERDIJK
LOTS OF WATER HISTORY WINDMILLS...17 WORLD UNESCO SITE...SOMETIMES IT RAINS SOMETIMES NOT COLD....BITCH CLIMBLING THE WINDMILL WITH NO KNEES BUT I DID...LOTS OF PIX....LUNCH....PROGRAM..DINNER.....NICE TRIP ON CANALS...THEY ARE EVERYWHERE AND CLOSE...LOTS OF WATER TRAFFIC....CLOSE MELD BETWEEN LAND AND WATER.....MOST PLEASANT.....TONS OF WATER TRAFFIC...WENT THRU A LOCK THIS AFTERNOON.....DID NOT SEEM TO GO UP OR DOWN
28 APRIL 16
SOME KIND OF A DAY.....HOUR BUS TRIP TO BRUGGE...CITY 1100 YEARS OLD..HISTORY AND BUILDINGS TO PROVE IT....CANAL BOAT TRIP THRU THE HEART OF IT....SOME RAIN...MOSTLY SUN....CHOCOLATE AND LINEN SHOPS EVERYWHERE
BUILDINGS WONDERFULLY OLD....HOSPITAL MUSEUM....SOME WEIRD MEDICAN PRACTICED IN THE MIDDLE AGES....BOUGHT SOME SOUVENIERS OUR LIMITED LIST OF LOVED ONES.....BROUGHT BREAKFAST SANDWICHES FOR LUNCH WITH FRIES AND ICE AT THE LOCAL IMITATION MACDONALDS...NICE PEOPLE....CITY A BIG TOURIST STOP....LOTS TO SEE...CAPTAINS DINNER TONIGHT CANT WAIT TO PUT MY TIE AND PANTS ON.
29 APRIL 16
ANTREWP.....MY FATERH THERE IN 1944 FOR THE LIBERATION....CITY PEOPLE SENT
A CERTIFICATION TO ALL SOLDIERS IN THE WAR EFFORT...COOL....GREAT BREAKFAST....GREAT GUIDE...WALKING CITY TOUR...ABC...ANOTHER GREAT CHURCH...THIS ONE 500 YEARS OLD...RUEBENS PAINTINGS INSIDE AS THAT MUSEUM IS BEING REMODLED...GREAT LUNCH BUFFET ...OFF TO CONCENTRATION CAMP NOW WONT THAT BE COOL.....IT WAS HARSH OF COURSE...BREENDONK......FORMER BELGIUM FORT.....GERMAN WORK CAMP FROM 41-44 ....GREAT GUIDE HARSH LIKE...DANK...DIRTY...DIRGEY...DUBIOUS....DELCIOUSLY INFORMATIVE......LEAVING ANTWERP......GREAT FINISH...ALWAYS A PREVIEW OF NEXT DAY TALK AT 645 FOR DINNNER AT 7.....TWO NICE COUPLES TONIGHT 152 YEARS OF MARRIAGE FOR THE TABLE AND WITH US AT 42....U DO THE MATH...AFTER DINNER WATCHED SHIP GO THRU THE LOCKS....DOWN THIS TIME...STILL TONS OF TRAFFIC ON THE WATERWAYS.....THEN A DUTCH TALKE AND QUESTION ANSWER WITH OUR TOUR HOST ERMA....SHE IS BRILLIANT....GOOD NIGHT
30 APRIL 16
STILL 9 HOURS AHEAD OF PACFIC TIME....ALMOST MAY...LONG TRIP TO ARNHEM..NOT THERE YET BUT ALMOST....MUSEUM AND CITY WALK...YEAH...KROLLER=MUELLER MUSEUM....HOUR OUT OF ARNHEM....ONE OF THE TREASURES OF THIS EARTH.....IN AN ESTATE SETTING....RURAL TREE LINED PARK LANES TO THE BUILDING...VAN GOGH....MONET...RENOIR....MANY OTHERS GREAT AUDIO GUIDE.....PLAYED STARY NIGHT ON THE BUS BEFORE AND AFTER AND OF COURSE IT WAS THERE...LOVELY DINNER....CITY TOUR THIS PM....JOHN OUR TOUR GUIDE 80 STILL HATES THE NAZIS....AS WE SPEAK OUR BOAT IS UNDER THE FROST BRIDGE THE SPOT OF HIGHLITE WHERE THE MOVE "A BRIDGE TO FAR" HAPPENED
WATCHING IT AS WE WRITE THIS...3 HOURS BIG CAST.....17MILLION IN THE NETHERLANDS 25 MILLION BYCLES....CITY OF ARNHEM TOTALLY BOMBED OUT NO OLD BUILDINGS AND ARCHETICURE.....PROGRESS MODERISH CITY...NEWISH NOT AS CLEAN AND ANCIENT LOOKING AS BRUGE AND BRUSSELS...ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT WITH THIS MOVIE ON THE BIG SCREEN AND SINGERS. FRANK WILSON TRIO....3 ANDREWS SISTERS ...GREAT MUSIC.....SHIP FRONT WITHOUT BACKGROUND WITH CURTAINS OPEN ALL WE COULD SEE IS SILOHUTES....NICE DINNER...COUPLE FROM TUCSON...TALKED TIL THEY RAN US OUT....NICE SUNSET....MAY 1 TALADEGA
1 MAY 2016
ALMOST MAY...STILL 9 HOURS AHEAD...ALMOST MADE IT THRU THE MOVIE...FINISHING UP NOW....BREAKFAST....TULIP LECTURE ON BOARD...HOME VIST IN AFTERNOON..we ARE IN ENKHUIZEN THRU THE OLD ZIDER ZEE NOW A FRESH WATER LAKE....TULIP LADY AND VISUALS SENSATIONAL....ITS 20% OF THE COUNTRYS INDUSTRY....GREAT STATE RUN HISTORIC MUSEUM REDONE FROM 1916 FLOOD WHICH CAUSED THE ZIDER ZEE TO BE DAMNED UP....WONDFULE TOWN EXHIBITS WITH COSTUMED STAFF....LUNCH ...HOME VISIT SUPER...3 STORY NICE HOUSE...SINGLE WOMAN...HER PARENTS VISITED....WON THEM OVER INSTANTLY
CITY VISIT..BEST WEATHER DAY OF THE TRIP....ALL SUNSHINE....NICE STEAK DINNER FOOD AND STAFF SERVICE WONDERFUL....MONDAY THE TULLIPS...ON TO TALADEGA
2 MAY 2016
HOORN....BREAFAST....WALK TO BUS...WONDERFUL SUNSHINE....HOUR TRIP TO THE FIELDS...GREAT HOST....ONLY TRIP HE TOOK THIS YEAR....GREAT VISIT AND GREAT FARMER.....TULIPIS SEASONAL....7 WEEKS...THIS THE END OF IT...MANY HOUST HAD FLOWER DISPLAYS IN THE YARDS LIKE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS...LOT OF TULIPS
LUNCH ON BOAT....WALK IN CITY...CAMERA BATTERIES...WESTRIES MUSEUM WONDERFUL WITH PAININTS FORM 1600S...LOTS OF GREAT STUFF...EXCELLENT LECTURE ON NETHERLALNDS...DINNER ....SHOW WITH TALENT FROM BOAT. GREAT SHOW ABOUT AN HOUR ....LOTS OF FUN....TIX FOR VAN GOGH MUSEUM WEDNESDAY
ALREADY TALKED OF DEEMBARKMENT...ON THE WAY TO AMSTERDAM FOR THE THIRD TIME
3 MAY 2016
AMSTERDAM....ONE OF THE WORLDS CITIES...17 MILLION PEOPLE IN COUNTRY 25 BIKES...THEY ARE ALL HERE...SPECIAL PATHS....BREAKFAST....CANAL TRIP WITH GREAT GUIDE....CANALS EVERYWHERE....400 YEAR OLD BUILDINGS ...BY THE ANN FRANK HOUSE IT IS WHERE THE DIARY IS....SCHEDULING TO GET IN THERE A REAL LOAD...RIGHT ON THE WAY TO DOWNTOWN....RIJKS MUSEUM...LIKE ,MEMO AND HERMITAGE....TONS OF HISTORIC EVERYTHING.....REMBRANDTS HOME STUFF THE HIGHLITE....SAD NOT TO BE ABLE TO SEE IT ALL AND DO ALL THE CAPTIONS...BACK TO BOAT FOR LUNCH...AFTERNOON JEWISH TOUR..ANOTHER GREAT GUIDE...LOVELY OLD CHURCH AND HISTORIC BUILDINGS...PIX OF OTTO FRANK IN THE ATTIC AND OTHER....COUNTRY CLEBRATION NEXT TWO DAYS...DINNER TONIGHT AND SOME PACKING.
4 MAY 2016
ONE OF THE TREASURE DAYS OF MY LIFETIME....KEUKENHOF MUSEUM.....FLOWERS OF ALL SHAPES SIZES AND COLORS....WORLD CLASSL
3PM TIX TO
11 PM AMSTERDAM TIME 2 PM LAS VEGAS TIME NOW...ON THE WAY HOME...UP IN 4 HOURS AND ON THE WAY TO THE BOAT....WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE
5 MAY 2016
KLM 9000 MILES TO LA....GOT IN EARLY MOVED UP LA TO LV FLIGHT FROM 7 TO 3
IT WAS DELAYED QUICK BUMPY RIDE HOME....JOEL FOR US AT ARRIVAL.....HOUSE IN TACT AND MAIL ON THE DOORSTEP...5 STAR EVENT
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