Sunday, June 28, 2009
Trolley

This is one of my shots from our trip to Yakima. There is an old trolley that is still running as a tourist attraction, but it has a lot of history behind it. And it was a lot of fun.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Google City Tours
You enter a starting address (or even just a city) and it finds points of interest and maps out a three day walking tour. You can add and subtract sites, but can't seem to change from walking to driving directions. Still I think this has great potential.
Now if they could combine this with the custom maps feature in Google Maps we'd really have something here.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Wine-soaked Weekend
And when we do we might just stay again at the Birchfield Manor. It was a little pricier than the places we normally stay, but we had a large jacuzzi tube in our room and the outstanding breakfast was included.
We also ate dinner there on Saturday night, and if you are in the area, I highly recommend the experience. The food was outstanding.
We took a short ride on the Yakima Valley Trolley as well, which was a lot of fun.
Our favorites of the wineries we visited were: Sagelands, Gilbert Cellars, and Windy Point. Although we bought some good wine at a few others as well (particularly the Grenache at the Alexandria Nicole Cellars.
I'll be posting pictures from our trip soon, so check back often.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tripit.com
It's great for organizing all the different pieces of information that go into the make-up of a successful trip. And the best part is how much of it is automated. For example: after booking a flight, I forward the email confirmation from the airline to tripit.com and it formats it and adds it to my itinerary. The same with hotels if you are staying at a somewhat major chain (which we rarely do), otherwise you can add reservation information using a template. You can add notes, web site links, articles, events, car rentals maps, directions and more.
They also have a free app for the iPhone so you can access your itinerary on the go. And if you don't have an iPhone, you can print out your itinerary at home.
So if you are planning a trip, I recommend checking it out.
Update: I meant to say that as much as I love the web site, for viewing your itinerary, the iPhone app is actually better. It's easier to see where one day stops and the next starts. The web site could do with a little more definition between days.
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
New Pages Added
So far I have the General, France, and Yakima pages done.
Also I have opened an Amazon store with books and products that I have read or used for our trips.
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Photos Of Our Travels
Itinerary
- New York
- September 4, 2009 — Leave for New York
- September 5, 2009 — Rochester, NY
- September 6, 2009 — Rochester, NY
- September 7, 2009 — Rochester, NY
- September 8, 2009 — Rochester, NY
- September 9, 2009 — Rochester, NY
- September 10, 2009 — New York, NY
- September 11, 2009 — New York, NY
- September 12, 2009 — New York, NY
- September 13, 2009 — New York, NY
- September 14, 2009 — Return from New York
Resources
- General Resources
- USA
- San Francisco, CA
- New York, NY
- Portland, OR
- Yakima, WA
- Europe
- Austria
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Italy
- Spain
- Mexico
- Yucatan
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