Rich Family Odyssey:
Itinerary
Family Travel in the Internet Age
It’s a big world, and no matter that 14 months seems like a very long time,
we cannot cover it all and remain sane. To minimize the road damage, we’re
mixing two kinds of trips: 6+ months of travel in the motor home, which we
completed last year from May 14 to November 15, then 8 months
of heavy eTripping alternated with hanging out with the locals from December 1
to July 25..
Leg Four: Europe
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Date |
Segment |
Day Plan |
Contacts & Comments |
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4/13-30 |
Portugal, Spain |
On our own via Car and Eurail |
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5/1-5/20 |
Southern France, Italy |
See current updates online |
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5/21-6/14 |
Switzerland, Austria, Germany |
Zermatt, Interlaken and Jungfraujoch, Salzburg, Vienna, Romantic Road and Rhine Valley |
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6/14-6/23 |
Amsterdam Paris |
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6/23-30 |
Cotswolds England |
With the Carpenters!! |
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7/1-7/10 |
England Wales and Ireland |
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7/11-20 |
Scotland and England |
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7/21-25 |
London and home to Denver |
Steffi will be counting the days |
Leg Three: Africa
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Date |
Segment |
Day Plan |
Contacts & Comments |
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3/16-28 |
Kenya/Tanzania |
Family Safari |
Abercrombie & Kent |
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3/28-30 |
NBO-JNB-LHR-CAI |
2-d stopover London en-route Cairo |
Our One World Tickets are great, but sometimes, they make you go a long way! |
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3/31 |
LHR-CAI |
Arr late PM |
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4/1-9 |
Egypt tour |
Egypt and Nile cruise |
Maupintour |
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4/9-12 |
Jordan/Petra |
Extension to Petra |
Maupintour |
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4/13 |
Amman-Cairo, Cairo-Madrid, Portugal |
En-route to Europe |
Leg Two: Asia Pacific
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Date |
Segment |
Day Plan |
Contacts & Comments |
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12/16-18 |
Auckland (dep. 19th) |
Visiting friends |
And resting! |
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12/19-22 |
Bay of Islands |
Sightseeing by car |
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12/23-30 |
Rotorua, Coromandel Peninsula; Volcanoes; Wellington; CHRISTMAS!! |
Sightseeing, beaching, Maori heritage sites |
Steph’s first summer Christmas |
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12/31/00 |
Ferry to Picton |
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1/1-5/01 |
Nelson, AT |
Hiking, Abel Tasman NP |
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1/6-15/01 |
Queenstown, fjords, glaciers |
Hiking, fishing, etc. |
A week of R&R in Queenstown area, seeing the western coast and Southern Alps |
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1/16-22/01 |
Dunedin |
Family Reunion |
Reynolds/Macandrews’ families converge on the Dunedin sesquecentennial |
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1/23-27 |
Stewart Island, etc. |
World Heritage Sites |
Considering Kaikoura |
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1/27-29 |
Christchurch, train |
Tranzalpen train |
Crossing the spine of the S. Island |
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1/30 |
CHC-SYD |
To Australia |
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2/1-2/11 |
Sydney, Gold Coast, etc. |
Touring, visiting friends, etc. |
On our own by car |
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2/11-15 |
Cairns, Great Barrier Reef |
Snorkeling on GBR |
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2/16-17 |
CNS-AYQ |
Climb Ayers Rock |
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2/18-21 |
Perth |
Explore West Coast Australia |
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2/22 |
PER-HKG |
Fly |
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2/23-2/27 |
Hong Kong |
Sightseeing, shopping |
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2/28 |
HKG-BKK |
Fly |
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3/1-3/4 |
Bangkok |
Ride an Elephant or two |
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3/5 |
BKK-Phuket/Ko Samui |
Pre-booked R&R |
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3/6-3/10 |
Phuket (or Ko Samui) |
Relax; hanging out w/ no plan |
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3/11 |
To Singapore |
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3/11-3/14 |
Singapore |
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3/14-15 |
Singapore-HK-JNB-Nairobi |
Fly |
Another long one…17 hrs w/o stopovers; leave Singapore 5:35P, arr Nairobi 1:55P the next day! |
Leg One: Central America
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Date |
Segment |
Day Plan |
Contacts & Comments |
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12/1/00 |
DEN-PTY |
Panama City via Miami |
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12/2/00 |
PTY |
Partial Transit Panama Canal |
Boat tour through the canal to Lake Gatun |
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12/3/00 |
PTY |
Rain forest |
Parc Nacional Soberania |
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12/4/00 |
PTY |
City and Museum tours |
Research relatives who worked on canal |
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12/5/00 |
PTY-UIO |
Enroute Quito |
Begin tour Galapagos Islands |
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12/6-14/00 |
UIO-Galapagos |
Begin Galapagos tour |
Galapagos Cruises |
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12/14-16 |
UIO-PTY-MCO-LAX-SYD-AKL |
Air from Quito to NZ |
THIS is a long day of flying! We leave Quito at 6:45 AM & arrive NZ 4:25 PM 2d later! |
Completed Itinerary for Navigating North America
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Approx. Timeframes |
Destinations |
Curriculum |
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April 2000 |
Pre-Launch |
Project Mgmt 101 |
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May 2000 |
Launch, Shakedown trip from Denver to western Massachusetts and Cape Cod via Marshalltown and Niagara Falls |
Stress Management; German and First Aid; American Colonial and Revolutionary History; Ocean and Beach Ecosystems |
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June-July 2000 |
Mid-Atlantic Coast: NY to Cape Canaveral: to include… NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Eastern Virginia (Mount Vernon, Williamsburg), North & South Carolina & Georgia Coasts, Cape Canaveral and Orlando, Gulf Islands National Seashore |
US Government and History, Air and Flight, Space, Natural History, Intro to World History. Intracoastal and Okeefinokee Swamp Ecosystems. NASA Space Program |
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August 2000 |
Northwest Florida to New England via Appalachian/Blue Ridge Parkway Routes; US and Canadian Maritimes |
Biltmore and Monticello Botanic Preservation; Revolutionary and Civil War sites, Industrial Revolution. |
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September 2000 |
Southern Canada, Upper Peninsula MI, Boundary Waters, US and Canadian National Parks Loop (Jasper, Banff, Glacier, Yellowstone, Olympic NPs) |
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October through mid-November |
West Coast Loop: Olympic Coast to San Diego. Return Home through more National Parks and Monuments |
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Mid-November |
Home for Thanksgiving; Repack |
Guest Lecturer, Cottonwood Creek Elementary School |