Trip 1 Trip 2 Hurrah, I was going to Bulgaria again! The flights were the same: Denver – Washington, D.C. – Vienna – Varna. The airport in Varna is small with only a few regular international flights. During the high season there are dozens of charter flights from European cities, but I fly from America […]
One week after the hike to Chasm Lake with me being in a better shape and state my husband and I went hiking to the Rocky Mountain National Park again. As the sign says there are a number of lakes there. We chose to go to Ouzel Lake. We were at the trailhead at
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It was only 3 days since I returned from a solo trip to Europe when my husband Sergey decided to revisit Chasm Lake that he saw last time 25 years ago. ‘Can we do something easy first? Give me time to adjust to altitude after 2.5 months at sea level’, I asked Sergey on the
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My flight home from Varna was via Istanbul with a 9-hour layover. I never was in Turkey before and instead of sitting at the airport decided to see a little bit of Istanbul. The flight to Istanbul was scheduled to arrive at 5 am. Tourist attractions open at 9 am. The boarding for the flight
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‘HOWDY’, the inscription on wings of a Spirit airplane cheered up its passengers as we were flying from Denver to Fort Lauderdale. Not everyone on the plane was in a good mood. The flight was almost 2 hours late. Spirit did not have a pilot in Denver to fly our aircraft. The airline sent one
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The underrated country Bulgaria is one of the most underrated countries in Europe. I am not the first person to say this and may not be the last. By the time I am writing this I have been to 73 countries and territories. When I go to a new place I often ask myself the
