These posts are recycled from an earlier website written in 2000 about a trip we took in 1999. The dates have been matched as closely as I can reconstruct from our original travel journals.When we returned from our two month journey through Europe we faced a dilemma: lots of people wanted to hear about our trip and see our photos, but since we'd shot a total of 28 rolls of film, we didn't want to subject anyone to that all at once. We've combined some of our photos with some observations from the journal we kept while traveling into this website. If you like, you can read through the whole site, or you can hop around to whatever bits interest you. Or you can skip to the end, pretending to have read the whole thing, and tell us by e-mail how much you loved it. Each country we visited has its own page, but we hopped around quite a bit, with a fair amount of backtracking. Just follow the links as they come up and you'll follow the route we took on our grand adventure. This style of presentation has another advantage: we can't tell when you're yawning.
In celebration of Hannah's completion of her Ph.D. in April, we decided to visit Europe. Since Hannah did not have to be at her new job until August, and I had just left my job in anticipation of our move to Toronto, we had plenty of free time to indulge our wanderlust. We knew that even two months would not be enough to see as much as we wanted to see, so we looked at this trip as an opportunity to sample some of the places to which we may return to explore in greater depth. We also had plenty of friends and relatives to meet and stay with scattered across Europe, and an extended tour gave us the opportunity to meet as many of them as possible.
In celebration of Hannah's completion of her Ph.D. in April, we decided to visit Europe. Since Hannah did not have to be at her new job until August, and I had just left my job in anticipation of our move to Toronto, we had plenty of free time to indulge our wanderlust. We knew that even two months would not be enough to see as much as we wanted to see, so we looked at this trip as an opportunity to sample some of the places to which we may return to explore in greater depth. We also had plenty of friends and relatives to meet and stay with scattered across Europe, and an extended tour gave us the opportunity to meet as many of them as possible.
To begin at the beginning, our expedition started from our former home in Pasadena, CA. We left for LAX in the morning and caught our first flight of the day to Dulles Airport, Washington D.C. Five hours later, we boarded our second flight. Fortunately, I had accumulated enough frequent flier miles to do this whole trip in Business Class, so all this time spent in airports and on airplanes wasn't quite as bad as it could have been. We arrived in Munich the next morning, and our epic vacation began...
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