Well, this has been a little frustrating. I spent a few hours creating a new posting for my blog, published it and, after creating my link on Facebook, found out it no longer existed. I can't begin to understand how or why that happened, but it means I am having to do it again, today. Hopefully, it will work, this time.
It is for reasons, mostly outside my control, I have not been able to create a posting for two and a half months. I am not happy about all the delays, but I am not going to cry over spilled milk and I certainly can't blame anyone else.
My interest travel really started with my first adventure in travel, back in 1970. In our youth, most of us leap at the opportunity to experience new adventures. I'm not sure I would ever have developed my own interest in travel had it not been for my wife. Evelyn, having been born in Berlin, Germany, decided she wanted to visit her home town in 1969. She took a ten week trip (it seemed a lot longer to me, at the time) by herself to visit with relatives and re-acquaint herself with her home town. You might think that was not much of an adventure for a young woman, since she had moved to California at the age of thirteen with her parents. Not so, my friends. She was traveling to what was still a war torn or impacted city. Berlin was an island city in the northeast of what was the communist enclave of East Germany. The "free" section of Berlin, which amounted to about half of the original capital city of Germany, was composed of the British sector, the French sector, and the American sector, and was completely surrounded by a twelve foot high concrete wall, not to mention the barbed wire, land mines, and the vigilant watch of the East German military. Much of the older parts of Berlin, which had gone through the war, were still composed of bullet hole riddled buildings.
It was the following year of 1970 we both decided to move to Berlin, together. We were there for four years, during which time we visited quite a number of places in Europe. We managed to visit the Tirolean area of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, and many historical sites in Germany. That was it. I was hooked. Although I have mentioned some of the places we have visited, we have no where near satisfied out travel addiction. We have, of course, had to taper off due to the financial status this economy has put us in, but we are now looking forward to an upcoming vacation to Costa Rica. We have some friends who want us to go with them and share their time-share, as well as sharing the cost of a rental car. We have enough points on our rewards programs with credit cards and mileage points to almost pay for the air-fare. Like the title of this post, hopefully, we are ON THE ROAD AGAIN, and without paying an arm and a leg.
