Category Archives: Travel

san francisco (day five): stanford and an early thanksgiving

we paid a visit to stanford university, which was only a short drive away in palo alto. rodin sculpture garden beautiful facade of the stanford memorial church back at home, rebecca spent time with her cousins… since we would be travelling the next day, derek and jennifer cooked a delicious early thanksgiving dinner! it was read more »

san francisco (day four): san fran hot spots

with joe finished with his conference, we had one day to do some sightseeing as a family. first we stopped by alamo square for a view of the famous “pink ladies”, a row of victorian houses, with the city in the background. architecture was generally very interesting, especially when virtually everything is built on a read more »

san francisco (day three): tea garden, embarcadero and more

day three. while joe was still busy at the conference, rebecca and i were able to spend the day with our family. first we went to the beautiful japanese tea garden in golden gate park. jadon checking out the coy fish. i loved the beautiful trees. then we went to the embarcadero where we enjoyed read more »

san francisco (day two): shopping

day two. it was a rainy day in san fran, which was the perfect opportunity to go shopping. again, after a heroic effort getting on and off the bus with baby, stroller and stuff, i made it to the shopping district on market street. i would have liked to walk around a bit more, but read more »

san francisco (day one): a city of murals

we’ve been looking forward to this trip for a long time now. joe is attending the Society of Biblical Literature conference and since his brother and family live in the area, we’ve made it a family trip to San Francisco! the flight from north carolina was painfully long, but we all survived, eventhough we arrived read more »

roadtrip to the outer banks: wright brothers (day three)

our hotel room had a view of the ocean and was only a few steps from the beach.

roadtrip to the outer banks: cape hatteras seashore (day two)

in the week leading up to our trip, we kept getting forecasts for rain and thunderstorms. so we were really happy when we woke up and saw some blue sky peaking through. we decided to take full advantage of it and drive south along the cape hatteras national seashore. first, we visited the bodie island read more »

roadtrip to the outer banks: one fish, two fish, fried fish, grilled fish (day one)

the outer banks is a long strip of narrow islands on the east coast of north carolina. our destination was the town of kill devil hills, a four hour drive from chapel hill. we set off on our roadtrip in the morning, just in time for morning nap. after a lengthy nap, it was perfect read more »

YVR – ORD – RDU

a couple of days after rebecca’s birthday, we were off on our big move to chapel hill, north carolina. luckily most of our stuff was already there (via joseph’s 5 day drive across the continent a few weeks earlier). even so, we had a lot of luggage between me and baby. needless to say, goodbyes read more »

Israel (Part 6) – Jerusalem Panorama

A panorama view of the Old City of Jerusalem, looking north/northeast/east from the Citadel on the western edge of the city (click image for larger version):