Annual Report - Trip Details

EUROPEAN CITIES VISITED

 

The blue markers are the cities we visited in 2008.  We flew from Chicago O'hare to Madrid to Paris Orly.  Subsequently used the Eurotrain to visit Bern, Lucern, Venice, Florence, and finally Rome.

The red markers are the cities we visited in 2011.  We flew from Memphis to Amsterdam.  Again used Eurotrain to visit Paris, Munich, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Vienna, and then Prague.  

NEW ZEALAND ROUTE

Day 1:  Started in Christchurch, spend time at Lake Tekapo, went to see the Tasman Glacier in Mount Cook National Park. Spent night in Omarama.

Day 2:  Spent afternoon in Queenstown, made our way to Te Anau by nightfall.

Day 3:  Drove through Fiordland National Park to take boat tour of Milford Sound. Spent night again in Te Anau.

Day 4:  Made our way to the Catlin Coast, then drove along it to Dunedin.  Along the way stopped at Cozy Nook and Nugget Point. 

Day 5:  Toured Dunedin, then drove to Christchurch.  Along the way saw Yellow Eyed Penguins at Curio Bay.

U.S. ROAD TRIPS

The green route is the move from Des Moines, Iowa to Houston, Texas.  After spending a couple days in Quincy packing, we spent the night just south of Dallas.

The red route is our move from Houston to Bakersfield, CA.  We turned over our apartment keys in the afternoon and were in San Antonio (1) that night.  After driving the entire next day, we still didn't make it out of Texas, spending the night in El Paso (2).  Day 3 of driving saw us reach Blythe (3).  We reached Bakersfield by noon the following day.

The blue route is our move from Bakersfield to Quincy.  We left Bakersfield at around 1pm, ate dinner in Flagstaff and spent the night in Winslow (1).  The following day we drove around 900 miles and spent the night in El Dorado (2).  We arrived in Quincy at 1pm the next day.