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"Travel,
ultimately, is an investment in memory. The experience is enjoyable, but
it's the memories that we keep." —Jonathan B. Tourtellot
2023
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2022
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Oct 19-Dec 20: Jan and Huyen visited SE Asia for 2 months. We flew to Singapore (and returned from there too) in Singapore
Airlines Business class using KrisFlyer miles. We visited Vietnam
(Hanoi, Nha Trang and Saigon), Thailand (Bangkok) and Malaysia (both
Penang and Kuala Lumpur). We loved it. |
| Sept 4-15: Jan and Sofia visited the Netherlands
in Delta One using Delta Skymiles. It had
been 3 years for Sofia since she saw her family. |
| Apr 18-28: Jan and Huyen visited the Netherlands, after an
absence of more than 2 years. We flew Delta Business Class using
Virgin Atlantic points and stayed at AirBnbs in Vlissingen and
Gouda. We even celebrated King's Day in Amsterdam (April 27) |
| Feb 19-25: Sofia's mid-winter break vacation was time for a family
road trip. This time to Arcata, CA where we visited the Redwoods,
including the Avenue of the Giants. Fun but a long drive from Seattle. |
2021
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Oct
19-27: Jan and Huyen made their first international flight in 2
years, visiting Cartagena, Colombia. We flew Delta to New York on miles,
then a paid business class ticket on Delta to Bogota, followed by a
flight on Avianca to Cartagena (using Lifemiles). The return flight was
in reverse though we upgraded the New York to Seattle flight to First
Class using certificates. In Cartagena we stayed at a Hilton Resort on
points. |
| Aug 1-5: Jan
and Sofia visited Fairbanks, Alaska flying Delta. We were upgraded both
ways. |
| June 5-10:
Jan and Huyen visited the Tampa Bay area flying Delta. Besides Tampa and
Ybor City, we visited Ft. Myers, Sarasota. St. Petersburg and Clearwater
Beach. We were upgraded to 1st Class on both flights (one using an
upgrade certificate). All in all, we had a great time. |
| June 19-24: Jan, Huyen and Sofia planned a road trip to Glacier
National Park in Montana but didn't make it beyond Spokane because of an
illness (not Covid!) |
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May 1-5: Jan and
Huyen visited Chicago, flying Delta, staying at the Radisson Blue Aqua Hotel.
We were upgraded to 1st Class on the return flight. |
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2020
| Oct 18-24:
Jan and Huyen visited several National Parks in Utah. Absolutely
beautiful. Check out videos Huyen made:
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| Aug 23-24: Road trip to the Oregon Coast. Video:
Westport, Seaside
and Cannon Beach |
| July 5-13: Road trip to Los Angeles. More videos:
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| Feb 16-21:
Our mid-winter break brought Sofia, Huyen and Jan to Tucson, Arizona
flying Delta using Delta miles. |
| Jan 8-16:
Jan and Huyen visited Florida flying Delta using Delta miles.
We first stayed in Miami Beach, then cruised to the Bahamas. The weather
was very nice! |
2019
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Nov 21-27: Jan
flew one last time to The Netherlands this year to attend a
reunion of his High School. He used Virgin Atlantic miles for this
trip, flying Delta One on the outbound, Delta Comfort+ class on the
return. |
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Nov 6-15: Jan
used the second leg of his Cathay Pacific New Year's Day
Business Class mistake fare ticket this week. Jan and Huyen, who left
for Vietnam a few weeks earlier to visit family, flew back together to Seattle on Asiana Airlines (Smartium Business class,
Huyen using Asiana miles, Jan using
United miles). |
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Oct 30-31: Jan
visited Portland flying Alaska Air First Class using coupons that were
about to expire. Jan made Alaska MVP status. |
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Sep
8-12: Jan visited Colombo, Sri Lanka flying Qatar Airways's
new Qsuites using American Airlines miles. From Colombo he flew to
Hanoi in Singapore Airlines Business Class using transferred Citi Thank
You points. The return from Hanoi
to Vancouver, BC was on Cathay Pacific using the famous New Year's Day
Business Class mistake fare. |
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Aug 10-21:
Jan flew Delta and KLM to Kaapstad, Zuid-Afrika in Business
Class on a discounted Expedia ticket earning 30K Delta MQMs. |
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July 22-Aug 5:
Jan and Sofia visited family in Vlissingen (The Netherlands)
flying British Airways Business class on a 747 jumbo jet. |
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May
10-22: Jan and Huyen visited Istanbul, Nice and
Amsterdam flying Aer Lingus, Turkish Airlines and Air Canada Business Class using United
miles. |
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Apr 4-11:
Jan and Huyen visited the family in Vlissingen and Velden (The Netherlands)
flying Delta One Business Class using Delta miles. They also saw his
friends Wiebe and Bea in Haarlem and visited the Keukenhof. |
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Mar 8-14:
Jan and Huyen visited Lisbon (Portugal) including a one night stay
in Paris. It was a great trip. |
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Feb 16-21: Jan, Huyen and Sofia
visited Puerto Rico for our mid-winter break using Delta miles.
We'll be staying at the Embassy Suites, a Hilton resort. The weather wasn't
as nice as expected though San Juan was very pleasant.
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Jan 28-Feb 1:
Jan did a mileage run to Santos, Brazil in AeroMexico Business Class,
leaving from Vancouver CA, earning 20K Delta MQMs. Santos (near Sao
Paulo) was surprisingly pleasant. |
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Jan 8-18: Jan and Huyen visited Bali flying Cathay Pacific
Business Class using American Airlines miles. They stayed at the
Stones Hotel - Legian using a Marriott Travel Package.
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2018
| Dec 8-10: Jan
and Huyen visited Nashville Tennessee flying Alaska Airlines |
| Nov 4-7: Jan
and Huyen visited Las Vegas flying Alaska, where we met Siegfried (from Siegfried and
Roy) at the Mirage. |
| Oct 6-11:
Jan and Huyen visited Kauai on Delta (Comfort+ class), using Delta
miles. We stayed at the
Koloa Landing Resort at Poipu using Marriott points. We did several
excursions including a Helicopter Ride, our first. |
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August 14-22: Jan and Huyen visited Buenos Aires, Argentina.
August is Tango festival time in Buenos Aires. We flew AA Business
Class using AA miles |
| July 24-Aug 2:
Jan and Sofia visited the family in The Netherlands flying Delta
One Business Class using Virgin Atlantic miles. |
| June 1-8: Jan
& Huyen visited Japan flying ANA 787-800 Business Class using
Virgin Atlantic miles. |
| May 21-24:
Jan and Huyen visited the beautiful island of Maui in Hawaii. We
were originally scheduled to visit the Kona coast on the big island
using an Alaska Airlines sales fare but were able to change our ticket
(travel waiver because of the Kilauea eruption). |
| May 5-11: Jan & Huyen visited Spain
flying Iberia Business Class using Avios miles from Chicago to Madrid.
We flew Alaska Airlines 1st Class to Chicago and back. Besides Madrid, we also visited Cordoba, Sevilla, Merida and Toledo. |
| March
23-30: Jan visited Florence on Delta/Alitalia Business Class,
visiting his second cousin Irina. Jan and Irina have the same
great-grandfather, "oud opaatje".
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| Feb
17-24: Jan, Huyen and Sofia cruised from Los Angeles to
Mexico visiting Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta. We flew United Basic
Economy to Los Angeles and survived! |
| Jan 10-20:
Jan and Huyen visited Hong Kong and Dubai flying Cathay Pacific
Business Class using Alaska Miles. Among many other activities, we had
High Tea at the Burj El Arab! |
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2017
| Dec 4-13:
Jan and Huyen visited Tahiti. We flew Alaska Air First and Air Tahiti Nui
Business Class using AA miles. It's strange to realize that Tahiti is
about the same distance from Seattle as The Netherlands with only 2
hours time difference (in the winter)! We stayed in an over water
bungalow on the island of Moorea. |
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Oct 20-26: Jan and Huyen visited Milan, Italy flying AA. Jan
used 4 SWU certificates from AA to upgrade to Business
Class on both trans-Atlantic flights. |
| Sep 22-29:
Jan visited his family in The Netherlands. He also secured another year
of Delta Platinum Status with this trip. |
| Aug
13-31: Jan, Huyen and Minh flew to Vietnam, arriving in Hanoi
and returning from Saigon. Sofia was with her mom during this
period. We met Huyen's family and did some sight seeing. |
| Aug 9-11: Jan and Sofia flew to Flagstaff, AZ to meet tante Annemiek
en oom Peter. |
| May 27-29: family road trip to Portland OR, meeting old friends. |
| Feb 19-23:
all four of us flew to Phoenix on AA for the mid-winter break. Using a
combination of upgrade instruments, we all ended up in First Class on
the outbound flight! We stayed at a lovely resort, the
Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak
resort with an extensive, heated pool complex. We visited our old
neighbors Trudy, Joe and Joseph and did a day trip excursion to the
Organ Pipe Cactus National
Monument. |
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Jan
10-20: Jan completed a very special trip: around the world
in an A380, almost 30,000 miles. As if that is not special enough,
he flew A380 Business Class ("Korean Air Prestige Class") from
Los Angeles to Sydney (via Seoul, Delta miles), then
Etihad First Apartments (thanks to AA miles), first from
Melbourne to Abu Dhabi, then from Abu Dhabi to New York. The
shower in the plane worked J The last leg
JFK-YVR was in Cathay Pacific First Class (777). In Australia, Jan visited his friend Wiebe. |
2016
|
Dec 12-15: Jan visited Panama City flying American Airlines and made
Executive Platinum Status for 2017. Jan rented a car and was able to
visit the Caribbean side of the Panama canal, visiting the new, larger,
locks. |
| Nov 6-11:
Jan visited Borocay in the Philippines. He tried to use his Delta
Global Upgrade Certificates, which has become more and more difficult.
He got an upgrade to Delta One on the return flight only. He made
Platinum status for 2017 but that is really not worth much anymore on
Delta. |
| October
8-14: Jan flew from Vancouver to Auckland (via LAX) on an
Boeing 787 Dreamliner. From Auckland, he flew directly to Wellington,
planning to take the
Northern Explorer train back to Auckland the next day. Unfortunately,
the train got cancelled that day so he flew back to Auckland where he
explored the city and visited the
Hobbiton movie set at
Metameta. |
| Sept
14-15: Jan did one last mileage run on Delta to
Charleston, South Carolina. As expected, Delta didn't upgrade Jan as a
Diamond Elite to first class on the segments to and from Seattle, the
ones that count! Bye Bye Delta. |
| July
19-Aug.11: Jan and Sofia flew to The Netherlands for our
annual leave, this time together with Huyen and Minh. This year, we just
went 3 weeks. We visited Brugge, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Goes and more. The
last week Huyen and Minh went to Prague and Munich while Jan and Sofia
spent time with family. The special treat this year was that we all flew
Delta One Business Class, both ways! We used AirBnB for a wonderful
apartment in Vlissingen. |
| June 26-July
1: Jan and Huyen spent a romatic week in Paris, France. |
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May 29-June 3: Jan visited Kuala Lumpur and Penang in
Malaysia flying Japan Airlines and Malaysian Airlines, all business
class. The segment Kuala Lumpur to Penang was by train. The flights
Vancouver to Narita and back on Japan Airlines were in a 787 plane. |
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Apr.9-12: Jan visited Sao Paulo, Brazil again. During his extended
stop in Phoenix, he visited his previous neighbor Jojo and his parents.
The flight Phoenix to Miami was delayed and Jan missed his connection to
Sao Paulo. Luckily AA put him on the next flight in International
First Class. The return flight through LAX was on a 787 airplane in
Business Class using an AA SWU - a very positive experience with great
sleep because of the better air quality. |
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Mar.21-24: Jan visited Shanghai, China. His return flight
routed through Hong Kong so that he could use a 72 hour Chinese
transit visa. |
| Feb. 13-18:
Family trip to Houston. We visited a friend of Huyen first, then
stayed at a rented beach house in Surfside Beach for a few days. The
weather was great and we enjoyed our trip. |
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Jan.26-29: Jan visited Sao Paulo, Brazil. All 4 segments of his trip
were upgraded to business class using AA SWUs. |
2015
| Dec.16-17:
Jan did another mileage run to San Juan, PR in First Class, this time
successfully completing the AA Challenge and earning Executive Platinum
Status, which includes 8 System Wide Upgrade (SWU) certificates. No
operational issues on this trip. |
| Dec.7-8:
Jan flew to Omaha, NE on Delta to use his expiring regional upgrade
certificates (RUCs). Not a mileage run because the Delta SkyPesos
program has been gutted. He did earn 6,000 MQMs but won't be pursuing
status in the future. |
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Nov.15-18: Jan tried to do a crazy mileage run on American Airlines to
complete an Executive Platinum challenge in one trip: 25,000 EQP before
Dec.23, 2015. However, he only managed to do half the trip (24 hours)
since his AA flight to San Francisco was diverted to Phoenix for lack of
fuel (!!!) The wait at the Phoenix airport, locked up in a plane for
several hours, with the prospect of another 24 hours inside a plane was
just too much so he got out and flew home the next day. Earlier AA had
managed to arrive late at the SJU airport (closing the door in Miami
knowing that the plane was not going to leave anytime soon) which caused
Jan to miss his connection to JFK. It was an operational disaster. After
flying Delta, it was not a great experience. The good news is that AA
refunded the flight segments I did not take after the diversion (about
half the ticket price) |
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Sep. 7-12: Jan had to fly to Spain to attend his dad's funeral.
He found a last minute business class flight using United miles and was
pleased with the way United handled several issues like a Lufthansa
strike and planes with mechanical defects. |
| Aug.3-6:
Jan and Huyen Dao made a romantic trip to Las Vegas, flying 1st Class and
staying at the Palazzo Hotel. |
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Jun.14-29:
Jan and Sofia flew to Amsterdam for our annual leave to The
Netherlands. We stayed in Spain for almost 2 weeks, visiting Opa Jan who
was very sick. We returned almost a week early because the weather in
The Netherlands was really bad and had to give up our Delta One seats on
the return flight. Maybe next year :) |
| Apr. 7-16: Jan
visited Saint Petersburg and Moscow. his arrival was delayed for about 8
hours due to another strike in France. Saint Petersburg is a most
beautiful city. After Saint Petersburg, Jan took the Sapsam high speed
train to Moscow, where he met his friend John M. They toured Moscow
together for the next 3 days, then flew back together from Moscow to New
York JFK in Delta One (the old Business Elite) thanks to a Delta Global
Upgrade Certificate. Jan's flight from JFK to SEA was also delayed, 3
hours locked inside a plane, due to a Delta pilot error, but waiting in
Delta One in a 75E plane wasn't bad at all. |
| Feb. 13-19:
Jan and Sofia flew to Houston to board the Carnival Magic from Galveston
to Mexico for Sofia's mid-winter break vacation. Our segments to Houston
(stops in PDX and SLC) were in First Class, Sofia's first time! She
liked it. |
2014
| Dec. 9-15: Jan made a road trip to Provo UT and Sun Valley ID for
some skiing with his friend James M. |
| Nov. 28-Dec. 2:
Jan paid another visit to Hong Kong where he hooked up with his friend John M.
It was an exciting visit and both of us earned lots of miles. They flew
back together in Business Elite thanks to a Delta Global Upgrade
Certificate. For Jan,
this concludes his points gathering on Delta airlines for now: he has
enough for 2 years worth of Diamond Medallion! |
| Nov. 3-4:
Jan did a Delta mileage run to Omaha. |
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Oct. 20-21:
Jan did a Delta mileage run to Portland (Maine) |
| Oct.
6-7: Jan did a Delta mileage run to Baltimore |
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Sep. 20 -25:
"guys" week on Kauai with David W. It was very hot and Jan got another
sun burn from snorkeling! He should know better. David is a real animal
when it comes to Mai Tais! |
| Sep. 7 - 11: Jan visited Hong Kong. Such a dynamic
city! Jan also did a hike on Lamma Island, just like being in the
jungle. Jan used two Global Upgrade Certificates for two wonderful
flights in Business Elite (Delta's International 1st Class) and earned
26K MQMs in the process. |
| Jan reached
Diamond Medallion status on Delta (until Jan. 31, 2016):
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Aug.
12-31: Flight to Berlin in Delta Business Elite for a 2.5
weeks exploration of Central Europe: Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava
and Budapest. Highlights included the Brandenburger Tor, the old town in
Prague ("just like Disneyland") and Budapest where Jan saw a performance
of the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble and also got a nice tan in the
Gellert Thermal bath. |
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June
14 - Aug. 10: 8 week annual leave for Jan and Sofia to The
Netherlands and Spain.
Besides the now usual visit to Opa in Spain (incl. a visit to Terra
Mitica), Sofia attended 3 full time camps, an equestrian camp, Humanitas
kinderkamp and a sailing camp. She also hosted her Belgian friends Yarne
and Maike for a few days; they all had great summer fun on the beach. |
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May 11- May 15:
Jan visited the Dutch island St. Maarten in the Caribbean. Upgrades on
the JFK to SXM and back flights but not on SEA to JFK and back segments.
Jan enjoyed being blown away by the jet engines at SXM airport. |
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Apr. 28-29: Jan
did another Delta mileage run to Charlotte, NC: 3 upgrades and another
9724 MQMs. |
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Apr. 19: Jan did
a Delta
mileage run to Orlando, FL: 4 upgrades to First Class and 9724 MQMs.
Double MQMs
rock! |
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Apr. 7-8:
Jan did a Delta mileage run to Manchester, NH |
| Apr. 6-10: Sofia and her mother visited her friend
Joseph L. in Phoenix, AZ. |
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Mar. 24-25:
Jan did a Delta mileage run to Charlotte, NC. |
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Mar. 8-13: Jan traveled to the Kingdom of Bahrain to
explore this island in the Persian Gulf, friendly to Westerners. He
visited the "Tree of Life", the King's Camel farm and other interesting
sites. Another 20,000 miles trip, including a segment on an Air France
A380 on the upper deck (in coach!) |
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Feb. 15-21: Winter break vacation for Jan
and Sofia. First they took the
Amtrak Coast Starlight train from Seattle to
Burbank (CA), which has a movie theatre in the
Parlour Car. Then they
drove to Carlsbad, near San Diego, where they visited Legoland for 2 days.
Sofia loved the Legoland hotel. Next they flew to
New York (LaGuardia) for a short 2 days visit, staying with Jan's friend
Peter F., then back to Seattle from JFK. |
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Feb. 10-12:
Jan flew to
Philadelphia for a 1 day visit on United where he visited the dad of his friend
Peter M. and, of course, the Liberty Bell. It was very cold in
Philadelphia! |
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Jan. 26-29:
Jan traveled to South Beach, Miami and Key West, Florida. He did some
snorkeling and biking in Key West. Got stuck in the Atlanta ice storm mess on
the way back but made it home eventually. |
2013
| November 27 - December 31:
Jan did a semi-backpacking trip to the S.E.
Asia: Vietnam,
Thailand
and Malaysia, returning from Singapore to Seattle. |
| November 5: Jan did a
Delta mileage run to Minneapolis, testing
Gold Medallion status (received 2 upgrades) and obtaining
Platinum
Medallion status on Delta until February 28, 2015. |
| September 20 -
September 26: visit for Jan to Mumbai, India, which required 3
days travel (Seattle-Chicago-Amsterdam-Mumbai and v.v.) and 3 days in
Mumbai. Great experience to visit Mumbai, even for just 3 days. Most
Indian people were very friendly. This flight also got him Delta
Gold Medallion status thanks to a
status challenge
from Delta Airlines! He flew over 20,000 miles on this trip. |
| June 15 - August 11: 8 week annual leave for Jan and Sofia to The
Netherlands and Spain. Besides lots of amusement parks (Terra Mitica,
Slagharen, Efteling) Sofia attended two full time children camps: the
Humanitas
Kinderkamp in Veere en het Land van Ny, as well as a
day camp:
Speelstad Vlissingen. She also biked a lot (get her own bike in
Vlissingen), visited the beach, visited family and made new friends.
Jan was able to meet quite a few old acquaintances. More details to
follow. |
| April
21 - May 6: 2 week visit Jan to The Netherlands to celebrate the
coronation of their new king: Koning Willem-Alexander |
2012
| December
25 - January 7 (2013): 2 weeks visit to Vlissingen to celebrate 2nd
Christmas Day, Oma Betty's birthday and New Year's Eve. We did visit
Antwerpen but all got sick from the flue, Jan the worst. |
| August 31 - September
21: Three-week visit for Jan to Bocas
del Toro and Panama
City, Panama, and to Mexico City, Mexico, where Jan visited his
friend Adriaan. |
| August
29 - September 3 : Long weekend visit for Sofia and her mother to stay
with friends in Phoenix, Arizona. |
| June
14 -August 25: Eleven-week stay in Gibraltar,
including a week-long stay with family in Venlo and Vlissingen,
the Netherlands; visits in Spain to, among others, Málaga,
Granada,
Cádiz,
Jerez de la Frontera,
Arcos
de la Frontera, Ronda, Estepona,
Sotogrande,
Puerto Banus,
Ceuta,
and numerous white towns; a tour of Tangier and
Tétouan,
Morocco; and exploration of Tavira,
Faro, and
Cacela
Velha, Portugal. |
2011
| December 2011: Eight-day Caribbean cruise on the Carnival
Miracle with stops at Grand Turk (Turks
and Caicos Islands), Dominican Republic (La Romana), Aruba,
and Curaçao.
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| July 2011: Jan and Sofia spend three weeks visiting
family in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. |
| June 2011: Two-week visit to Anadalucia, Spain, including one
week traveling though Granada,
Córdoba,
Sevilla, Tarifa,
Medina
Sidonia, Ronda,
Gibraltar,and Málaga, and one week staying in
Torremolinos, for real
summer weather; sightseeing of the region's history, art,
architecture, and culture; and family fun at places such as
Benalmádena's Tivoli World,
Fuengirola's Bioparc
(zoo), and Aqualand
and the Crocodile Park
in Torremolinos. |
| May 2011: Long weekend of fun at Disneyland and warmth
in the California sun! |
| March 2011: Family weekend at Cannon Beach, Oregon. |
"All
journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." —Martin
Buber
2010
| October 2010: Two-week trip to Netherlands and Spain for Jan
to visit family, including a road trip to Grenada, Córdoba, and La Linea
on the Costa del Sol, and Gibraltar.
|
| September 2010: Week-long RV trip to the Oregon Coast, with
stops at Bandon
and Newport,
Oregon. |
| August 2010: Family weekend trip to Moses Lake to enjoy sun and
splashing at the Surf
'n Slide water park. |
| June 2010: Family trip to San Diego, California, including
visits to SeaWorld, the San Diego
Zoo, and the San Diego Wildlife Park, as well as the beaches of Del Mar
and La Jolla and the lighthouse at Point Loma. |
| April 2010: Three-week trip to Vlissingen,
the Netherlands, for Jan and Sofia to stay with family. |
| January 2010: Week-long cruise for Jan, Sofia and her mother on Royal
Caribbean's Mariner
of the Seas along the Mexican Riviera, with stops in Cabo San
Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta. |
"Travel
is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness." —Mark Twain
2009
| October 2009: Jan takes a 10-day trip to Hong Kong and
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
|
| August 2009: Jan and Sofia visit Vlissingen,
the Netherlands, for two and a half weeks. |
| July 2009: Long family weekend in the Chateau op
Wielen at the MarDon
Resort on Potholes Reservoir in Eastern Washington. |
| May 2008: Family trip to Vlissingen,
the Netherlands, to stay with family, attend the wedding of Jan's
niece Christel and her new husband, Sjuul, in Venlo, and visit the
Dutch theme park Efteling,
the city of Maastricht, and Aachen,
Germany. Jan and Sofia stayed about 20 days, during which Sofia attended morning preschool in
Vlissingen. |
| January 2009: Week-long trip for Jan, Sofia and her mother to Honolulu,
Hawaii, with a stay at the ResortQuest
Waikiki Beach Hotel,
hours on the beach, a drive around the island, and visits to the Honolulu
Zoo, Waikiki
Aquarium, Bishop
Museum, Polynesian
Cultural Center, and Sea
Life Park. |
2008
"The
world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." —St.
Augustine
2007
2006
| July 2006: Family camping week to Fort
Stevens State Park and Seaside
on the Oregon Coast, and Seaquest
State Park in Washington. |
| May 2006: Caribbean cruise on Carnival
Valor with 18 family members from Holland, including stops at Grand
Cayman, Cayman Islands, Isla
Roatán, Honduras, Belize
City, Belize, and Costa
Maya, Mexico. |
| February-March 2006: Family trip to Vlissingen,
the Netherlands, to see family and celebrate Jan de Rie Senior's 75th
birthday. |
"There's
a particular kind of affinity that occurs when traveling, a subconscious
bonding to a foreign land that happens almost instinctually. (I've always
believed it's hard to drop bombs on a place you have personally visited.)"
—Matthew Link
2005
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2004
| November-December 2004:
Family trip to Vlissingen,
the Netherlands, to introduce Sofia to her Dutch relatives, celebrate Lianne
and Rob's 25th wedding anniversary, and celebrate Sinterklaas. |
| June-July 2004: Family camping vacation down the Oregon
Coast, stopping at Fort
Stevens, Cape
Lookout, and Beverly
Beach state parks. |
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes." —Marcel Proust
2003
| November 2003: Solo trip for Jan to visit family in Playa
Albir, Spain, and Vlissingen,
The Netherlands.
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| October 2003: Romantic vacation to Maui,
Hawaii |
| August 2003: Cultural week in Chicago, Illinois. |
| June 2003: Scenic weekend drive through the Columbia
River Gorge. |
| March 2003: Romantic week in Savannah,
Georgia, and Charleston,
South Carolina |
| March 2003: Solo trip for Jan to family in Vlissingen,
The Netherlands. |
| February 2003: Family ski week to Big
Mountain, Montana. |
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"You
must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences." —Constantine
Peter Cavafy
2002
| December 2002:
Family holiday trip to Vlissingen,
The Netherlands, for New Year's. |
| December 2002:
Long family weekend to
Phoenix,
Arizona, and the Grand
Canyon. |
| November 2002: Adventure trip for Jan to Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| September 2002: Weekend in Silicon Valley, Calif., to celebrate the wedding of Elisabeth Byström and Evan ten Brink. |
| September 2002: Solo trip for Jan to family in Vlissingen,
The Netherlands. |
| August 2002:
Romantic week in Montréal and
Québec
City,
Canada. |
| August 2002: Family day-trip to Mount St. Helens. |
| August 2002: Solo trip for Jan to family in Vlissingen,
The Netherlands. |
| July 2002: Family weekend chateauing at La
Wis Wis campsite, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, and hiking Silver
Falls Trail from Ohanapecosh, Mt.
Rainier National Park. |
| July 2002: Long weekend for Jan to New York. |
| April 2002: Family trip to
San
Antonio and Corpus
Christi, Texas. |
| March 2002: Week in Paris and the
Loire
Valley. |
| January 2002: Family ski weekend to
Mt.
Bachelor, Oregon. |
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"We
strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into
astonishment once again." —Shana
Alexander
2001
"What
you risk reveals what you value." —Jeanette Winterson
2000
| December 2000: Solo trip for Jan to Paris to visit Patrick Questembert. |
| November 2000: Romantic weekend in Santa
Fe, New Mexico. |
| November 2000: Solo car trip for Jan through the American Southwest. |
| August 2000: Family sightseeing trip through the Netherlands. |
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June 2000: Honeymoon cruise throughout the Mediterranean (Barcelona,
Monte
Carlo, Florence,
Capri, Pompeii,
Venice, Athens,
Ephesus,
Istanbul). |
| February 2000: Family trip to Disney
World, Clearwater Beach,
Florida. |
| February 2000: Solo trip for Jan to the Philippines.
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"It
is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves—in
finding themselves." —Andre
Gidé
1999
"The
day shall not be up so soon as I, to try the fair adventure of tomorrow."
—William Shakespeare
1998
| December 1998: Family visit to Vlissingen, Netherlands. |
| August 1998: Romantic Labor Day weekend in San Francisco, California. |
| June 1998: Adventure trip to Singapore. |
| May 1998: Family trip to Disneyland,
California. |
| February 1998: Romantic Princess
cruise to the Eastern Caribbean. |
| January 1998: Solo trip for Jan to Eastern Africa. |
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