2022 August Viking River Cruise Budapest to Amsterdam

A two week River Cruise  from Budapest to Amsterdam, with 3 extra days in Amsterdam. Pictures

 

2022 May Malta - Italy

April - May 2022  a 4 week trip from Malta to Florence Italy.
We stayed 6 days in Malta, 10 days in Sicily, Taormina and Palermo.
From Palermo by Train to Naples for 8 days (with trips to the Amalfi Coast) and finally to Florence for 6 days, again by train. Pictures

2022 January Puerto Vallarta

 

2022 January, another trip to PV to escape the Chicago winter. Pictures

2021 October Whitefish, Montana

 A week with Family in Whitefish. Pictures

2021 June Iceland

 We toke a 2 week Self Drive Tour around the Country - The Ring Road. Pictures.

2021 April, Maui, Hawai

Our Family get-together in Maui. Two weeks with many beach visits and driving to explore the Island including road to Hana and up to Haleakala.

View from our Patio and family.

 

2020 October, Whitefish, Montana

 2020 was the year of Civid-19, but we did make it to Whitefish, Montana for two weeks to get together with the kids and friends from Seattle.

2020 January, Mexico

2020 we did not go only to Puerto Vallarta, we spent the first two weeks of our winter get-away North of PV  in La Peñita de Jaltemba and explored near by beaches and towns. The last two weeks it was back to PV. Pictures

2019 October, Ireland

A two week trip with Tour Group SmarTours around Ireland, a few extra days on our own in Dublin. Pictures

2019 Norway, Stockholm, Iceland

A trip on our own to Oslo, Norway then by bus and train to Tronheim, Kristiansund, Alesund, Bergen and back to Oslo. Oslo - Stockholm by train. Iceland for 4 days doing the touristy sightseeing and back to Chicago.  Pictures

2019 March - Cruise Abu Dhabi - Singapore

A 3 week trip flying to Dubai and spending a few days there to explore, after to Abu Dhabi for the beginning of the cruise. 15 days cruising stopping in Oman, Mumbai, Goa, Cochin, Sri Lanka, Thailand and ending in Singapore. In Singapore we spent 4 days before flying back home.

2019 January - Puerto Vallarta Mexico

2019 - another year we spent a month during the winter in Puerto Vallarta. Our escape from the Chicago weather. Back to the same apartment, in the Romantic Zone, near the beach and all our favorite places. Pictures

2018 October - Paris - Belgium - Amsterdam

A trip to Paris, Bruges, Antwerp, Mechelen, Brussels, Amsterdam. By train and car for 12 days Meinhard with Ari and Erik on the Beer Tour. Pictures.

2018 August - Whitefish, Montana

A two week vacation with family and friends from Florida. Pictures

2018 June - July Alaska by Ship and Land

A 3 week organized tour - Cruise - Land - Cruise. Vancouver to Skagway cruising. By land from Skagway to Whitehorse, Dawson, Fairbanks, Danali, Anchorage, Seward. Using Train, Bus, Plane and Cruisetrain. After that a 7 days cruise from Seward to Glacier Bay National Park, Haines, Juneau, Ketchikan and back to Vancouver.  Pictures

2018 April - May Portugal - Spain - France

Our 4 week Spring road trip.
Portugal: Lisbon - Lagos and Porto, including a trip on the Douro river.
Spain: Vigo, Santiago de Compostela, A'Coruna, Oviedo, Bilbao and San Sebastian.
France: Bordeaux and Paris.
We flew into Lisbon and then moved around by Train and Bus to Paris from where we returned by plane to Chicago.  Pictures Link

2018 January Puerto Vallarta

2018 was another year we spent a month during the winter in Puerto Vallarta. Our escape from the Chicago weather. We found a new apartment, in the Romantic Zone, near the beach and all our favorite places. Pictures

2017 Germany Wine - Mosel & Rhine

Our 3 week trip exploring Germany's wine region - Cologne, Aachen, the Mosel and Rhine ending up in Mainz and then Strasbourg. Pictures

 

2017 Australia and Fiji

This year we made it to Australia. The idea was to fly to Sydney and spent a week or more in the beautiful city. Well we did land in Sydney, for 10 days, but also went to the Red Center Ayers Rock and Alice Spring to see the rock "Uluru". We toke a three day tour with Intrepid Travel. After returning from the red center and a few days in Sidney we stopped in Fiji for a week, staying in the city of Nadi and doing some day trips by land and boat.

2017 Puerto Vallarta

In 2017we went again for the month of January to Puerto Vallarta, our escape from the Chicago winter. We stayed again in the Romantic Zone, right on the beach and all our favorite places. Pictures

2016 Vietnam (Intrepid tour)

Best of Vietnam (Intrepid) October 2016 20 day trip and 4 extra days in Saigon and Hanoi 

Day 1, 2 Ho Chi Minh City. Visiting the Cu Chi Tunnels, War Remnants Museum, and a City tour.       Day 3 Mekong Delta Homestay, Traveling south by private bus for about three hours to Cai Be and explore the waterways of the Mekong Delta, visiting the Cai Be Floating Market.       Day 4 Ho Chi Minh City and then overnight sleeper train to Nha Trang.

Day 5, 6 Nha Trang, idyllic coastal town.    Day 7 Quy Nhon City Nha Trang - Po Nagar Cham Tower.     Day 8, 9, 10 Hoi An, ancient Town. My Lai Memorial visit and bicycle outing.

Day 11, 12 Hue. crossing the Hai Van Pass and a visit to the Imperial Citadel, also Royal tomb, Motorbike trip including lunch, Perfume river cruise and Thien Mu Pagoda.

Day 13 Dong Hoi Vinh Moc Tunnels Entrance.     Day 14 Farm Stay, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park visiting the Phong Cave first, then a cruise up the Son River towards the Thien Duong Cave (Paradise Cave).    Overnight sleeper train to Hanoi.      Day 15 Hanoi - Water puppet show, Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum and Museum, One Pillar Pagoda.     Day 16 Mai Chau   which is situated in a beautiful valley surrounded by verdant mountains and emerald rice paddies, the night in a local stilt-house homestay in the village of Poom Coong.   Day 17 Hanoi.     Day 18 Halong Bay and overnight on boat.     Day 19, 20 Hanoi.
Link to PICTURE ALBUM.

2016 Great Britain Trip

A 5 week trip through Great Britain - (England, Wales and Scotland). 30 days by car and 5 days in London.
Pictures

2016 March Florida

March 2016 we went for two weeks visiting friends and neighbors in Florida. Our trip was from the Orlando area to Naples and Marco Island.  Pictures

2016 January Puerto Vallarta Mexico

This year we went again for the month of January to Puerto Vallarta, our escape from the Chicago winter. We stayed in the Romantic Zone, right on the beach and all our favorite places. Pictures

2015 National Parks Utah - Arizona. (Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, Grand Canyon)

Our Fall 2 week trip. We started this circle trip by flying to Las Vegas, renting a car, and driving the circle visiting five parks in Utah and Grand Canyon North & South in Arizona.
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2015 Copenhagen, Denmark - Finland - Tallin, Estonia

Family re-union

Biking

This was a trip to visit Finland with the children, to let them one more time see their mothers country. Seija and I traveled first to Copenhagen for 4 days then to Helsinki where we all met up. After 4 days in Helsinki we traveled, by car, to Punkalaidun. Seija stayed there while Erik, Ari and I went on a tour biking the Finnish Archipelago.After returning to Punkalaidun we drove up to the Lakelands (Punkaharju) where we rented a cabin for a week. At the end we returned to Punkalaidun and attended the Pentinmaki Family reunion (over 100 attended). We went back to Helsinki where everybody went their own way, Ari - Iceland, Erik and Sarah - Helsinki,  Seija and I Estonia.   PICTURES

Copenhagen

Finland - the family

Finland

Tallin - Estonia