We're happy to announce travel-ography.com has finalized plans to be in Boston over the 4th of July this summer !
This will be a wonderful trip to probably the best place in the whole world to be on the day our nation celebrates its Independence. We'll walk the Freedom Trail on the 4th of July, join hundreds of boats and thousands of revelers in the Boston Harbor, as we follow along with 'Old Ironsides' when she sails out into the harbor and fires her cannons in a 21 gun salute to our nation, and top off the evening by attending the annual 'Boston Pops Concert' along the Charles River with over a half million other people proud to call this 'our country'.
This travel-ography adventure is set to take place July 2nd through July 6th this summer. We have accommodations in a beautiful hotel right in the heart of the action. Easy walking distance to all of the July 4th events.
We also plan to 'drop in' on the 'Boston Pops' practice on the evening of the 3rd. We have a 'day trip' planned to Cape Cod and we'll also spend some time at the Kennedy Library and Museum. Our hotel is located right in the middle of some of the best shopping in the city (in fact, we're attached to a mall !) and great dining opportunities are all around us. We'll tour legendary Fenway Park, home of the World Champion Boston Red Sox....(and we're even open to extending our trip two extra days, so we can see the Twins play the Red Sox.)
There is so much to do and see in Boston and the 4th of July is the perfect time to be there.
Cost of the trip is: $895 (per person based on double occupancy)
$795 ( " " " " triple " )
$735 ( " " " " quad " )
This does not include airfare (since some of our traveling companions choose to use frequent flyer miles).
At this time we are able to secure airfare for $600 from Grand Forks or $350 from Minneapolis.
We do have limitations to the number of travelers we can include on this trip, so if you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible. Either call us at 701-352-1810 or email us at stevelarsonstudio@yahoo.com .
We'd love to have you join us, as we celebrate the 4th of July in Boston !
Steve and Linda
PS...Here are a couple more images from our recent travels to Spain.
Above is the beautiful bridge in Logrono, Spain. When the water is calm the view is stunning, as a mirror image really creates a cool effect. Our daughter, Abby, lives only 5 minutes walking distance from this bridge.
Here is our family enjoying a tradition very popular in Spain. Every night about 8-10 pm a group of bars or pubs offer 'tapas' (cool bar food) to their patrons. These range from mini sandwiches to stuffed mushrooms to mini skewers of steak or chicken, etc. They are fabulous ! Abby lives two minutes from this area.
Our family.....wearing off the 'tapas'. We're a pretty excited bunch.
By the way, don't forget the Beth Moore 'Living Proof Live' trip we're offering to the Target Center in Minneapolis. There are still some seats available on the bus and I can assure you this will be a wonderful time. See more details on the previous post on our blog, travel-ography.com
Steve and Linda
travel-ography.com is pleased to announce our offering of a weekend in Minneapolis to attend the Beth Moore 'Living Proof Live' Event !
This inspirational event will be held Friday, July 18th and Saturday, July 19th at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We have secured 40 tickets to the event, a beautiful and comfortable motorcoach bus and hotel rooms less than a block away from the Target Center.
Cost of this package is $195 per person (4 in a room)...$205 (3 per room) or $225 (2 per room). $100 deposit needed to hold you a spot.
Please call 701-352-1810 to reserve a place with us for this wonderful event.
(Tickets are going fast..and we haven't even advertised this !)
Steve
Whew !!!!
I thought we were supposed to 'slow down' a bit as we get older. Definitely not the case here.
After spending the last two weeks of December in Spain, coming back to a photography studio needing our 'attention' to catch up, and trying to plan more travel-ography.com adventures, plus preparing a one hour motivational program I'm presenting to more than 200 teachers and administrators on Monday, the 21st of January, time has not been an ally.
I must post some photographs so you can see what a wonderful time we had in the beautiful country of Spain. Our daughter, Abby, is over in Logrono, Spain (the Northern region) teaching English for one year, and we gathered, as a family, to enjoy the country and the holidays.
Spain is so different from America in many ways and we found it so interesting.
Here we are eating 'lomo' (pork, I think) sandwiches on the fly.It took awhile to develop a taste for some of the food, but believe me, our hosts (Abby and Ben), did not disappoint when they cooked up a fantastic Christmas meal for the family.
Shopping for the ingredients proved very interesting (note the weird mini shopping carts) and there is no way we could have enjoyed such a delicious meal without the knowledge and language help from our hosts.
We 'walked off' all the great food by visiting cathedrals, museums, castles, and lots of other points of interest our 'guides' wanted us to see.
Rob (above) with Spain's beloved 'Don Quixote'.
This proved to be an amazing shot...as I had moved all around this magnificent Cathedral, capturing photographs from several angles, when, unexpectedly, Jesus on the Cross lit up in a beautiful, warm glow....for ten seconds....then returned to darkness. I happened to be in the right place at the right time and was able to capture two exposures of this amazing sight.
The uniquely designed 'Guggenheim Museum' in Bilbao, Spain. One of only five Guggenheim's in the world. It was fabulous.
And we still had some energy...after seeing so much !
These are only twelve of 2,349 photographs Linda and I captured in Spain. I'll share more in future posts. (Don't worry, I won't post all of them!)
Tomorrow we're announcing details of a very exciting adventure we're offering to our travel-ography.com friends. We're going to Minneapolis to see Beth Moore speak and inspire at the Target Center. I've heard her program is wonderful and usually sells out quickly, so we feel fortunate to have secured 40 tickets, a comfortable motorcoach bus, and good hotel rooms, in order that a bunch of us (including you !) can be part of this inspirational event on July 18th and 19th.
More details in tomorrow's post. Until then....goodnight.
Steve and Linda
