Category Travel
Boise Wedding – Shoshone Falls
As you might have guessed from its name, the town of Twin Falls sits on a bluff above the Snake River very near a number of falls. Some of my relatives said they wanted to stop by Shoshone Falls on the way back to Boise, so I decided to join them. Unfortunately due to the dry […]
Boise Wedding – Guns before girls
Suppose you’ve got a few hours to kill before meeting up with your bride and the photographer for wedding photos. What do you do? If you said “shoot guns!” then you’d fit right in with my family (probably better than I do). When Ammon and I pulled up at Jordan’s parents’ house in Twin Falls […]
Boise Wedding – Tuxes, snails and jovial French chefs
Thursday was the day for last-minute wedding preparations. I needed to pick up my tux, find a box and wrapping paper for my wedding gifts, wrap said gifts, and run some errands for various other family members who were otherwise occupied. Fortunately for me, Jaron volunteered to come along as my special helper. Which means […]
Boise Wedding – In which I overcome trials and get an awesome car
Barely back from wedding festivities in Germany, I left DC again on Wednesday for another set of nuptials. This time with my younger brother, Mark, as the groom, and the setting Boise, Idaho. The trip out went as planned – I flew from DC to Chicago, then on to Boise, where I rented a car, […]
Berlin – Wedding Day
Saturday morning before the wedding was a study in contrasts: Niko: He got up at a normal time, showered, strolled down to the dry cleaners to pick up the shirt he’d forgotten to get the day before, watched a few episodes of Portlandia online (per my recommendation the day before) in his pyjamas. Eventually it was time to […]
Berlin – Wedding’s Eve
So. Berlin. There and back in three days. Thirty-six hours of wedding-related eating, singing, partying, dancing, speaking French, not speaking German, renewing old friendships, making new ones, saying farewell until next time. No sight-seeing. Almost no sleeping. On that last point, I’m happy to report that jetlag actually makes it easier to keep up a breakneck pace […]
Breakfast in Amsterdam
We arrived in Amsterdam an hour ahead of schedule. Then the Dutch proved to be world champion passport controllers — through the line, stamped an out in under five minutes, definitely a record. So now I have two full hours to eat some breakfast, drink some Spa water (hands down the best water ever) and […]
Rivers and Plantations
For the last day of Heather’s visit to DC, we decided to leave the museums and monuments behind (even if we’d tried, we wouldn’t have been able to see them all) and get out of the city for a while. We started the day with a drive up the Potomac River to see the Great Falls. From […]
Labor Day
Labor Day is one of the better holidays for visiting DC — you get the benefit of a holiday (no commuter traffic, parking regulations aren’t enforced) but it’s late enough in the year that the masses of tourists are gone (yay!). This means we had the place essentially to ourselves. Capitol TourWe started with a tour […]
Sunday Touring
So, day two of Heather’s visit to DC: We started out with 9am church meetings, which consisted of Fast & Testimony Meeting (for which we did not fast) and a debate-heavy Sunday School class regarding the meaning of the word “covenant” (there are, after all, lots of lawyers in this ward). After a little socializing […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 