Monthly Archives: January 2010

Introducing BBV

Introducing BBV

Meet BBV, MongoQuest’s faithful mascot. He’s been travelling with us since the great Six States in Five Days trip over 4th of July 2007. Here he is in front of the Grand Tetons. We picked him up along with breakfast at the McDonald’s drive thru window on our way out of town and the...

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Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

This is one of my most beloved webcam travel adventures. For a lover of rivets, steel beams and enchanting artistry – what better site to gaze upon? You can view this webcam on your iGoogle homepage using the Eiffel Tower Mini Cam widget. 2009 2008 2007

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Webcam Traveller

Webcam Traveller

So, what to do when the appetite for travel is large and the budget is prohibitively small?  And, after all, you can’t be on vacation all of the time, right?  My solution:  become a webcam traveller.  Long before I ever laid eyes on the Eiffel Tower in person, I gazed at it lovingly every...

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Europe 2009

Europe 2009

When I was growing up, my family travelled constantly – by car, camper or motor home – up and down the west coast from Vancouver to Ensenada. But nothing east of the Sierra Nevadas… and never, ever by plane. We used to call our family vacations “carbon copy vacations” (because we went to the...

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