Colburn’s Family Travels Sept 2007-June 2009

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Our general travel plan is:

1) Late September to mid-October 2007: New Zealand (there was a pricing error…airline missed a decimal)

2) Late October to end of January 2008: Europe (NE to SW)…bought a Volvo in Sweden…plan to take the ferry to Estonia and then drive all the way to Portugal before returning the car in Germany to be shipped to Michigan. We ended up driving 15000 miles.

3) February-March 2008: Texas, El Salvador, New Zealand again [along with Tonga, Samoa, and American Samoa) (same pricing error)

4) Mid-April 2008 to Early June Round the world ticket (China [Shanghai, Xian, Beijing], South Korea, Hong Kong, India [New Delhi], Namibia, Botswana, Mauritius, South Africa, Egypt, Jordan, Greece [Athens, Paros, Mykonos], Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Shetland Islands, Orkney Island, Scotland).  Really good deal…you get 20 flights as part of it.

5) Our RTW finished in Hawaii…now we need to head back on an Award back to the mainland (stopover) then to St. Maarten … and then by sailboat to Guadalupe. Roger also went to Korea, Malaysia, Brunei. TVC-ORD-DFW-MIA-SAL-MIA-ORD-TVC-ORD-DFW-HNL-NRT-ICN-BKI-SDK-BKI-BWN-KUL-BKK-PUS-NRT-HNL-KOA-HNL-ORD-TVC-ORD-DFW-SAL-IAH-ORD-TVC-ORD-MIA-SXM-PTP-SJU-ORD-LHR-AMS-BRU-LHR-ORD-TVC

6) Need 4000 more miles for AA executive platinum…so we have to go to AMSterdam (right after our Caribbean trip)…found a sale to London

7) South America…TVC-ORD-MIA-GRU-SCL-Valdivia-BRC-AEP-IGR-AEP-MVD-EZE-LIM-UIO-Galapagos-UIO-LIM-IQT-LIM-LPB-CUZ-LIM-GRU-DFW-ORD-TVC

Multi-country picture for our local grocery store

Our general home schooling plan

1) http://www.k12.com/  Online guided teaching

2) We started early this summer and our kids have already done about 20% of the school year.  

3) When in Suttons Bay they are attending the Montessori program at the public school.

Keep in touch with us at these e-mails:

roger @
cathy @
eric @
rebeca @
alex @

our domain dri.com

You can SMS us at +1 214 564 4732

Or in an Emergency call
+ 447937001904 (+ usually is 011 in the US)

OR
Callers in US dial: 800-471-3237 ext 824607

Our Itinerary (110,000+ flight miles; 15,000 drive miles):

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Bought a European delivery Volvo…drive around Europe for 115 days…Baltic states, E Europe, Central Europe, Western Europe….15,000 miles:

Gothenburg, Sweden

Hestra, Sweden

Flen, Sweden

Ferry, Stockholm to Tallin, Estonia

Tallin, Estonia

Varna, Estonia

Tartu, Estonia

Riga, Latvia

Palanga, Lithuania

Kaunas, Lithuania

Vilnus, Lithuania

Warsaw, Poland

Krakow, Poland

Debrecen, Hungary

Brasov, Romania (2) (2 nights)

Belgrade, Serbia

Ljubljana, Slovania

Aix-en-Provence, France

Alicante, Spain

Ronda, Spain (3)

Granada, Spain (3)

Madrid, Spain (5)

Manzanares, Spain

Cordoba, Spain (2)

Sevilla, Spain (2)

Tarifa, Spain

Fes, Morroco (2)

Asyliah, Morocco

Tarifa, Spain

Cadiz, Spain

Lagos, Portugal

Evora, Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

Coimbra, Portugal

Douro Valley, Portugal

Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2)

Santander, Spain (2)

Vitoria (2)

San Sebastián, Spain

Amboise, France

Mont-St Michel, France

Bayeux, France

Paris Euro Disney, France (4)

Paris, France (2)

Sarlat, France

Barcelona, Spain (8)

Cascarone, France

Arles, France

Eze, France (2)

Nice, France

Montpellier, France

Barcelona, Spain

Lyon, France

Lausanne (2)

Lucerne (2)

Como, Italy

Florence, Italy (2)

Rome, Italy (6)

Sorrento, Italy (2)

Venice, Italy (2)

Innsbruck, Austria

Salzburg, Austria

Vienna, Austria (2)

Bratislava, Slovakia

Prague, Czech Republic (3)

Dresden, Germany

Luneburg, Germany

Hamburg, Germany

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AKL-CHC land

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INV-EDI land

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