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The Amazon River and Painted Ladies – Day 5

This post is about the fifth day of our road trip in America, still in San Francisco! You can read all of the related posts here. The ones describing the previous day, two installments can be found here – Cable Cars and Matrimonial Cakes – Day 4 of our Trip Serendipity at work and how [...]

Serendipity at work and how we wandered over to the dark side of San Francisco – Day 4, part 2

This post describes the second part of our fourth day of our 160 days long trip to the US & Canada. First part of the day is here. In case you missed it, our trip posts start here. We’re back home now – an re-living the trip by blogging about it in retrospect. A couple [...]

Cable Cars and Matrimonial Cakes – Day 4 of our Trip

On our previous trip to the US, both IsraeliDad and myself were severely struck with jet lag. At least I think it was jet lag, very likely aggravated by stress, a fair amount of cultural shock amd even illness (I came down with a fever three days into the trip). We were fortunate enough to [...]

An A-Mazing Day in San Francisco – Day 3 of our US trip

This post covers the third day in our five and a half months of traveling in North America. Previous post is here. First post is here. For our second day in the city of San Francisco, we opted to leave our car in the hotel’s garage and explore the city on foot.  The Buena Vista [...]

Travels in America – Part 4

This post covers the third in our long road trip in North America. Previous post is here. First post is here. First Day in San Francisco Two hours past midnight, in a dark motel room, in a strange new place, still laying in their big bed, our two boys woke up and started prattling away. [...]

Travels in America – Part 3 – Flying to San Francisco

Several months prior to our date of departure, I had already booked our flights, placed an order with a car rental company and made hotel reservations for our first month of the trip. By the time we had only one month left, pretty much everything, except for the bags themselves, was ready. We had my [...]

Travels to America – Part 2 – Preparations

Pretty much every Israeli has a valid passport on hand. Just in case that… you know. However to visit US, an Israeli citizen must first procure a VISA stamp in said passport. Getting a US tourist VISA is expensive and irksome. I suspect most of those reading this blog have never gone through it themselves, [...]

Traveling To America – Part 1

It’s been two months since we returned from our travels in the USA & Canada in 2011. Finally settling back into our comfortable routine, I think I finally have the time and energy to blog again. If it’s alright with you all, I’d like to share here some of our travel stories and replay our [...]