"The past two days, we have spent some time with our good friends Nick and Kara Klenske from Iowa. Nick attended law school with Nate and is now a lawyer and Kara is a kindergarten ..."
"On Easter we set out on another of our marathon bike rides (marathon for us at least!) - we had hoped to complete a 30 mile (roundtrip) expedition to Haarlem where we had planned o ..."
"Well here we are ready to leave The Netherlands already and head for Germany tomorrow. Today we went into Amsterdam and did the usual tourist things such as Anne Frank House, Rijks ..."
"July 6, 2006 We made it to Amsterdam just fine and met a lady on the train heading to the airport. She was flying to Tanzania with a summer volunteer group, Global something.... Ro ..."
"Very good hostel breakfast - 3 cheeses and meats, assorted buns and bread (I stuck to the multi-grain bread), plain yogurt, cereal, juice, coffee, biscuits and even hard boiled egg ..."
"This will be the last one from Holland. After we did our laundry (such a mundane chore) we trotted off to the Frans Hals Museum here in Haarlem. He was a local artist of some renou ..."
"All evening packing, packing, packing until 2 on the morning! Actually, between 1 and 2, I was asleep, opened an eye sometimes to watch Ryan loading the car...after some precision ..."
"May 9, 2008 We started our adventure by flying out of Bismarck, ND. Our flight schedule included a plane to Minneapolis and then on to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. This was our f ..."
"The World's Biggest Book It is also, according to the museum brochure, the world's most expensive book. No, it's not the Gutenberg Bible. Nor the collected works of J.K. Rowling. ..."
HAARLEM, Netherlands
