Trip Contest Is Back!
The rumors are true, we’re going to run another trip contest! This time the goal is to guess how many steps we’ll take without going over. Here are the details:…
First Stop: New York
We had an absolutely marvelous first day. It started early (4:30!) but we didn’t have to rush or sweat the hour long trip to O’Hare at rush hour. And once…
Welcome to our New Home
We’ve finally moved into our own domain at https://pointyenders.com. This allows us a lot more control over blog appearance and layout. For some reason, one thing that’s hard to get working…
Heading Home!
On New Year’s day we pried ourselves out of our suite at the Park Hyatt Vienna at 7:15am in order to get to the airport for our flight home. The…
Viennese Way of Life
Part of what made our visit to Vienna so wonderful is that Vienna is a place that enjoys life. The cafe society is alive and well here and people are…
Schönbrunn Palace
This will be the most disappointing post ever! While I’d like you to know that we visited the beautiful Schönbrunn Palace, we have no real photographic evidence because they strictly…
The Belvedere
The Belvedere was originally built as a summer residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy. He is revered in Austria as the man who drove the Turks from their occupation of…
Park Hyatt Vienna
Wow oh wow. We arrived at the hotel around 9:30p and checked into our beautiful Park View Suite. The hotel itself is located inside the former Austrian National Bank and…
Leaving Oman
What a terrific stop we had in Oman. We feel so fortunate to have experienced what we did and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend a trip there. Muscat is about 75…
Al Hajar Mountains
For day two of our guided tour of the interior of Oman we covered a circle that sort of mirrored our trip yesterday, but to the west. It looked like…