On March 11, Susan and I drove to the airport and began three weeks of vacation. On March 30 we flew from Miami to Houston to Dallas and, due to a flight cancellation, rented a car and drove from Dallas back to Oklahoma City. On March 31 we drove back to the airport, returned our rental car, picked up Susan’s car and collected our luggage, officially marking the end of our vacation. Over the past three weeks we’ve touched states amd five countries. We flew across the Atlantic Ocean, took two high speed trains, and spent two weeks on a cruise ship making our way back from Barcelona, Spain to the United States!

My plan was to document our vacation a little bit each day by posting blog entries and sharing pictures and videos here on RobOHara.com along the way. Unfortunately, I ran into an unforeseen technical issue once we boarded the cruise — either Carnival’s WiFi is blocking access to websites hosted on HostGator, or HostGator is blocking access from Carnival cruise ships. Either way, the result is the same; I was unable to update my website from the ship. The few things I was able to get our were done by phone whenever we arrived in a port and were able to use our international data plan.

What that means is that over the next several days I’ll be sharing more vacation stories and pictures from our visit to London, Paris, Barcelona, Portugal, and all the other places we visited over the past three weeks. It has been a truly fantastic vacation and I still have no idea how Susan was able to plan all the stops, hotels, and everything else!