Monday, April 20, 2015

Eee Hah!


Well, here we go again. Yes, this is what it looks like




It is a suitcase.  Which preludes a journey, no?  yes! To borrow from willy and steve, a combination of on the road again, planes trains, and automobiles (well, okay, busses, er excuse me coaches) and this time boats.  We are about to embark on a new experience for us, a Viking River Cruise.  We’re going on what they call the Tulips and Windmills trip.  Not surprisingly, it leaves from (and returns to) Amsterdam. We will be under the experience guidance of Cole Travel, so logistics will be easy.

We leave in a scant few hours for IAD to board a KLM flight, another first time for us with that airline.  Have heard good things.

This finally being penned Monday morning, I had a delightful few hours in our basement last night mopping up water that emerges from the ducting in cases of extreme rain.  Such as last night.  Continuing in the “new” vein, I am also NOT taking the million pound, but reliable, laptop instead opting for the much lighter and smaller Lenovo.  I think I did a dry run and proved to myself I can publish from that, so fingers crossed.   As one friend advised, priority one is MFO, two is enjoying the trip, and three is the blog.  So if you don’t see another post for a bit, it is either the damn technology, or priorities one and two are winning.

Bon Voyage.

Oh, dining on this trip is somewhat problematic.  Dinner is always served aboard, but off vessel dining opportunities were somewhat clouded by non specific information on when the boat will leave port.   “that evening we will cruise to…..”

And one of the reasons our suitcases are pushing the weight limit is that we had to pack to be

DFD

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