Before we headed to the airport for our flight home Robyn wanted to see the start of the changing of the guard. We walked over to the front of Buckingham Palace and stayed about an hour, but we only caught the first part because we had to head to the airport. We had a great vantage point and it was pretty cool to see at least part of the process. When we left on this journey 15 days ago we checked two bags and carried on three. Now we were chec...

Our trip to Europe has been in the works for several years. Robyn and I have talked about going since the early 1980's, but other things just kept getting in the way, such as work, raising our children, and having sufficient funds. Two years ago we finally made the commitment and originally set June 2011 as the month we would go; however, life interfered and we decided to delay one year. I planned on using airline miles to pay for the airfare and had accumulated ...