Just as we were about to tuck ourselves in last night, I checked the Aurora forecast on a whim to see if anything was happening. It was showing a KP index of 6 which is moderately high, and it showed our location in a possible band of areas where an aurora sighting might be possible.…
Keep readingIt was a leisurely wake up that began with the included breakfast. I had a small potato pancake that somehow had too much flavor. Baltic cuisine is an interesting thing. We were on the road just before 10:00am and spent the next 20 minutes getting out of Riga. We then drove for another 2 and…
Keep readingThe Shakespeare, as it turns out has rather thin walls. We could very easily hear the neighbors early 2000s pop music mix. While Nicole did not take issue with the song selections, she didn’t care for the clarity at which she could have sung along to their playlist. Our initial flight was supposed to have…
Keep readingAs a straight shot, it would have taken us about four hours to go from Klaipeda to Vilnius. But we felt that we couldn’t miss the chance to make a little detour to see the Plokštinė missile base, a relic of the Cold War. It was the first of its kind, created in the 1950s…
Keep readingThe Curonian Spit is a landmass just across a small strip of water from Klaipeda. It is a geographic term that I was not familiar with until researching this trip. It is essentially a narrow strip of sand dunes, beach, and forest that parallels the coastline of Lithuania for about 90 km and eventually merges…
Keep readingBefore summer travel gets out of hand, we had to make a decision as to where to go. Madagascar was one scenario, but required a day and a half of driving at one point which wasn’t appealing. I had concocted another scenario with Belgrade, Kosovo, and Sarajevo, but Nicole exercised her veto powers on what…
Keep readingAfter another night of 9+ hours of sleep, we headed to the nearby coffee shop and to the front of the line just as a fresh batch of cinnamon rolls arrived. What luck! Nicole arranged for a late checkout which gave us an extra hour. Nevertheless, it was kind of a dead day. We sat…
Keep readingWe had no difficulty getting up early since we both got another solid 8+ hours of sleep. We rode the golf cart down to the end of our street to get some pastries at a coffee shop and got ready to go snorkeling. Pickup was not offered, so we had to drive about 12 minutes…
Keep readingLast night was the first night I slept well in more than a week. I am running a sleep deficit and accumulated probably 9.5 hours last night. As a diamond member, Nicole was given the option of a free breakfast or a credit of $15 per person. We opted for the breakfast which was quite…
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