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  • New York Day 6 – Brooklyn

    On our last day we negotiated a 3pm check out so that we could go exploring and not have to leave our luggage anywhere.  Since out flight home wasn’t until 6pm we had a decent amount of time.  We headed over to DUMBO in Brooklyn.  There are some fun acronyms for places here.  DUMBO stands…

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  • New York Day 5 – New York Skyscrapers

    We headed back out on the subway to see some of the tall buildings of New York.  There are a few! The Empire State Building is probably the most famous.  We headed there first to try to avoid long line-ups. The Empire State is the ‘nickname’ of New York State.  The Empire State Building was…

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  • New York Day 4 – Museum of Natural History and Central Park

    We got to start a bit later today as the American Museum of Natural History doesn’t even open till 10am. We walked a few blocks to the subway only to find weekend track maintenance had closed the access to that line at our station. Oops – we had to detour via another train down to…

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  • New York Day 3 – Statue of Liberty and 911 Memorial

    This trip has been full of bucket list type of sites. We have all grown up with TV and movies shot in NYC so there are lots of familiar places. The Statue of Liberty being perhaps one of the more famous. The official name of the statue is Liberty Enlightening the World. She was a…

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  • New York Day 2 – Central Park and The Met

    We were too late last night to grocery shop at Trader Joe’s, so this morning we headed over before breakfast and coffee. Dave was cranky but recovered once sufficiently caffeinated. I don’t think anyone is particularly jet lagged, being only a three hour time difference, just tired after a long travel day yesterday. After breakfast…

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  • New York – Getting there and Times Square

    We started our trip with a nice and early 5am wake up call. Nothing like flying east to get you up and off to the airport early! We were on a nice new Boeing 787 and while we (Kris and I) had emergency row seats with tons of leg room, we had to “reboot the…

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  • Madagascar Day 28 – A Day at the Museum.

    Our plan for today was to visit the Louvre. We had no real requirements except to see the Mona Lisa. There’s a ton of other things to see of course and we had a few things on the list but the first and most important was to see Ms. Lisa. Before we left though, we…

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  • Madagascar Day 26/27 – Overnight Flight to Paris

    1am is not a good time to be awake. However it was when our flight from Madagascar to Paris left. Air France loaded us up and we actually left 10 minutes early. A very long 10 and a half hours later with little sleep we landed in Paris. Once again we are staying near the…

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  • Madagascar Day 25 – Tana, Our Last Day in Madagascar

    On our last day in Madagascar we had a free day to relax. Our flight to Paris leaves at 1am so we intended to wander and explore a bit and not do too much. We slept in and had a lazy breakfast. We had three errands we wanted to cover off. First was chocolate. Northern…

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  • Madagascar Day 24 – Nosy Be Back to Tana

    Today was our last day at the Anjiamarango Resort in Nosy Be. Our fight back to Tana wasn’t until 6pm so we were able to sleep in and relax. It seemed no big deal to get a late check-out today – there are several other groups here, but it is not even close to full.…

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    On our way back to Paris, we stopped in Orleans, one of the oldest cities in France, to learn some of the history of Joan of Arc.  Joan of Arc (nicknamed the Maid of Orleans) turned the tide of the Hundred Years War – she and the French troops forced the English to withdraw from…

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