During our trip, Karen kept up with a lot of our activity. Our watches recorded how far we walked each day. She tallied all of the other activities. —We took 30 different trains —we traveled 2,570 miles on trains —We made six flights, traveling 9,375 miles —We walked 168 miles —Total distances covered in all… Read more

Our return home was not exactly as we expected it. But, we are home and glad to be here. First, when we did pull in our driveway, cars and front porch had been decorated with balloons from Mark, Brandy and the grandgirls, Sarah, Abby and Katie. Plus, we were welcomed with some big hugs. Even… Read more

Since we started our trip, we’ve noticed in every town where we’ve stayed and in every town we have viewed out the window of our trains, they all have one thing in common. Large or small, they all have places to worship God. Of course the large towns have numerous churches, chapels, cathedrals and abbeys.… Read more

Today we had a tour scheduled which took us to three small villages about 30 minutes from Amsterdam. Each one had a different specialty that we could see demonstrated. We met at the train station for our tour which began at 8:45 but the tour bus pulled out at 8:27 since all were aboard. The… Read more

We arrived in Amsterdam on Sunday, Oct. 20, in the afternoon. It is a huge city and the train station is massive. We plugged our hotel address, Holiday Inn Express, into the iphone GPS and it told us it was about a 17 minute walk from the station. A 17 minute walk for us is… Read more

We are on “fast train” to Amsterdam after our first train this morning, a regional German train, was canceled because of “lack of personnel.” The next train that came through, 30 minutes later was packed and we still had to get on.We were packed together like, well, sardines. However, our next stop was only 14… Read more

Yesterday, Thursday, was a travel day. We left our Rothenburg hotel at 7:20. The innkeeper offered us two bottles of water since we were going to miss breakfast. We stopped at a pastry shop as we were walking to the train station. Karen picked us out two jelly-filled donuts, which we carried to the train… Read more

We arrived by train in Rothenburg on der Tauber, Germany, yesterday evening, after riding the rails and making several train changes during the morning. We were there early enough to walk around the medieval town and check it out. It was about a 10 minute walk from the train station to our Hotel Sonne. We… Read more

Walt Disney visited Fussen, Germany, in the 1950s. Not only did he visit the town, but he also visited Neuschwanstein, the fabulous castle just outside of Fussen. He liked the castle so much that the Disney castle logo was created from the castle he observed there. But even more, those who have visited Disney World… Read more

This day was mostly a travel day. We departed Venice by hopping a train at the Venice train station. It was a little hairy because we did not know where at the station to catch the train. As with all the train stations, we know the number of our train and we know the destination… Read more