Rome – Transatlantic 2009 Day 1

Yesterday was a pretty easy start ot our vacation. Since the true beginning destination of our vacation this year is in Rome, Italy, we have a good amount of traveling to do just to get there. Yesterday, we knocked out a couple of those hours and travelled to Dallas, TX. Suzanne’s parents and her sister […]

Vacation Time!

Yes! It’s finally here – or well at least will be in the morning! Our much anticipated vacation to Rome, Italy followed by a transatlantic cruise home. It definitely seems like more than a year since our last cruise, but it was this time last year we embarked on our trip to Barcelona, Spain followed […]

Packing Panic

Well I had two things that threw me into a “Packing Panic” as we prepare for our trip to Rome and our Transatlantic cruise. First, I did a “try on and see what fits” with my son, and besides just a few recently purchased dress shirts and a few t-shirts, very little fit him. His […]

2009 Cruise Fast Approaching

Since our first family cruise in 2005, an annual cruise together has been a tradition. This year we are lucky enough to be able to take another cruise vacation. Last year we took our first Trans-Atlantic cruise on the Celebrity Summit. We loved the elegance and relaxed pace of that voyage that included exotic destinations […]

Bachelor Time – Sort Of…

It’s that time of the year again – Bachelorhood! The time when Suzanne and the kids make the Summer trek back to Dallas to visit with her family. Well, sort of anyways. Yes, she left this morning for her trek, but unfortunately, I am so buried in work, I am not sure how much of […]

Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July to all! What a great holiday and even nicer when it falls near a weekend enabling a long weekend! Its been a whirlwind time lately as I was on business travel last Thur and Fri and then again Mon, Tue and Wed of this week. So, its been a while since […]

Next Cruise Booked

Well, we have done it. As discussed in a previous post, we have been planning our next cruise. Now, we have gone and booked the cruise. Its going to be another transatlantic cruise. This time, from Rome, Italy to Ft Lauderdale, FL. It may seem odd to do a transatlantic for a second year in […]

Back From Trip

If you follow me on twitter, then you know I was recently on a business trip to the Cleveland area. Most of my trips are pretty uneventful, which is good. This one was a bit different though all ended well. The trip started fine, except for the 6:00 am departure on Thursday. No problems with […]

Next Cruise Planning

Well, as mentioned here before, we currently don’t have a cruise booked yet for 2009. We have been planning on waiting until around the September time frame to see if prices were any better due to being inside 90 days for the cruise. That all sounded good and well, until this weekend when we decided […]

Travel Weary

Whew, what a couple of weeks. Sorry for the lack of posts recently, but I have been on travel for my company and what a couple of weeks it was. The journeys started with a business trip to Hawaii a couple of weekends ago. Yeah, I know, rough place to go on business. It is […]