Sometimes I come up with a good idea and this was one.   I contacted a photographer in Cartagena ahead of our trip. Daughter KT is graduating high school and we wanted some Senior pics.   My thought was with Cartagena becoming a destination wedding spot....there were area photogs who may do a nice job and the scenery is spectacular.        I hired Juan Diego of Duques Photography and he did a great job.    Once there, we decide to maximize the time...

Tough trip to plan for ....20F in Beijing and 95F in Jakarta.  A lot of business meetings and not sure laundry limits. I'll be outside if trekking to the Great Wall. I'm going to be all over the place. Packed a suitcase in a suitcase in case I see something to buy for the girls/family too good to pass up.

This is our first vacation to Hawaii. We've been all over the Caribbean and really hadn't seen the sense in 10 hours of flying to find better sand, water, & scenery, but decided we won't know til' we get there. Dean has a last minute business trip come up in Riverside California, so the girls all fly on Thurs morning from Chicago to meet in San Fran. They get the 6 am limo and check in with United and are hit with an  $80 checked bag fee with...

A few Mauro Moments getting out of Chicago. Lucky us. United overbooked 944 and offered us $400 cash each to wait 5 hrs. Since we had a 9 hr layover in Frankfurt....why not !!    We took the money and a 7:45 pm flight with the same connection in Frankfurt - Malaga we were originally on.    Hey...pays for the trip!!  

Planning our Spring Break trip to Spain and family set up of TravelPod site.    Jeez...the language barrier and getting through Spain will be easier. " I don't want to call it Mauro08".....   "That's boring."......"Don't capitalize our screen Name" ..."I want my own blog" . OK ...go to bed girls, we'll do it. 11 days counting down. I still haven't booked my trip.   I've known for some time I am needed for business meetings in...