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Wieliczka Salt Mine: Touring Poland

On our trip to Poland, we tried to visit as many of the Seven Wonders of Poland as we could, including Wawel Castle and the Main Square of Krakow. The Salt Mine has received over 40 million visitors and has salt deposits over 13 million years old.  It took us 350 steps down into the mines, and a chilly 800 throughout the mines to tour to 20 different chambers...

Gaudí’s Casa Batlló in Barcelona

As an award-winning, nationally recognized interior designer, JD was drawn to visiting this famous landmark during her trip to Spain.  This modernist masterpiece and museum have undergone several refurbishments, rebuildings, and redesigns.  The roof of the building is said to honor the Legend of St. George as he pierced the back of the dragon with his sword...

Would You Travel to a Place or a Person?

It’s a seemingly cliche question: would you travel to a place or to a person? To me, to a place evokes a sense of adventure, anticipation, excitement. To a person brings a sense of longing, of comfort, of home. Today would have been my younger brother’s birthday. It brings back memories of little kids having a summertime birthday party, cake, running...

Travels through Germany: A Photo Gallery

After Denmark and Paris, the next destination on M’s European adventure was Germany.  Here is her collection of travels through Germany, from the countryside to the castles. Just as JD took the trip this summer through Europe to Croatia, Greece, Venice, Spain, and Rome with her daughter, M took her daughters on an excursion to shape their experiences...

Cabin Life (For the Weekend) at Lake Arrowhead

It’s July and it’s hot.  It’s 107F degrees and although it still beats the 90 F degrees and 90 percent humidity we had in Chicago, it is still just hot.  JD and I are playing the “where is it hotter” game between Los Angeles and Phoenix, although she doesn’t really care when she has the Mediterranean breezes as she...