Austria Hotels

After a quick trip to Sunriver for Charlie's wedding, John and I departed out of PDX to our first stop: Munich! We arrived in Chicago around dinnertime and grabbed a quick bite before our 8-hour flight. The plane was pretty full and for some reason Luftansa booked us two aisle seats across from one another. It's hard to get much rest on the aisle seats unless you have someone or something to lay against, so we didn't sleep at all. We arrived a but after noon and it seemed like we were the only international arrival at that time. We breezed through with our passports five minutes - very nice. ...

So I officially started the planning process - a.k.a. moved on from the vague dream and started laying concreate details. Didn't make a lot of progress - (only had an hour lunch break, lol) - but found some promising sites to get me started and created a list of ALL the countries I would like to include if time and $$ were not an issue. Countries to (hopefully) Visit: 1) Ireland (already visited, not a must) 2) England (same as Ireland) 3) Wales (not a must) 4) Scotland (a must!) 5) French countryside (not a must) 6) Spain (not a must) 7) Italy (a must!) 8) Czech Republic 9) Greece (a must!) ...

Hi All, I plan on making entries into the journal from the travel journals that we wrote on our trip. This hopefully will keep the entries fresh and spontaneous (although technically late entries hehehe). I am pairing photos with the journal entries, but unfortunately they have to be small or they are really bad quality. To see the photos larger (and good quality), click on the view all button in the trip photo album above. Day 1 is the easy entry. Travel day. The only comments I can muster about travel day are.....the flight is too long, the seats are too small, team VT gets real tired (code ...