Berry Family VacationsThese are links to PDFs of photos, and videos, of our past vacations. 2023 - Carnival Cruise East CaribbeanThis was an amazing experience with stops in four ports: Dominican Republic (Amber Cove), Puerto Rico, St. Maarten, and St. Thomas. Then three full days at sea to enjoy the ship.
2022 - Georgia and Tennessee
2021 - USA Pacific Northwest
2020 - USA Florida
Video #2: Key Largo Video #3: Key West Video #4: Gator Park Video #5: Rent a boat at Marco Island Video #6: Swimming in Oceans 2019 - Arizona
2019 - Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks
2018 - Philippines
2019 - Thanksgiving on Oregon Coast
2017 - Europe Grand Tour
Vacations To-DoThese vacations still need a PDF:
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Summer 2022 our friends David and Celeste, who live south of Chattanooga, invited us to join them on
their summer vacation and share a cabin in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. We also visited Nashville and
toured the Jack Daniels distillery.
For several months we had the idea of driving to Canada this summer for vacation, but Covid makes that
difficult. In March Kim reconnected with Kevin, who was friend and guitarist in “Plan B” band in early 80s. We
started collaborating on songwriting. Kevin and Sue had retired to Port Townsend in Puget Sound, a town that
is a port for a whale-watching tour.
Accordingly, we planned a vacation around visiting them.
In late 2019 we learned that Jen's friend Leticia had married and moved to Florida Keys. Since I had never
been to Florida, and Jen wanted to go somewhere with warm ocean and nice sand, we planned that as our
summer vacation. But by March 2020 that was derailed by COVID. The Keys were closed. The first week of
June Keys reopened and we resumed the plan. It was a nice summer vacation.
January 5-9 we drove to Phoenix to spend time with family and friends, and enjoy the sun. This was the first
time any of us had been in the Phoenix area. (To avoid LA traffic we took highway 138 through Lancaster both
going and returning.)
July 17 through 29 we drove over 3000 miles, visiting Yellowstone, Glacier, Mount Hood, and Crater Lake
national parks. Kim celebrated his 61st birthday in Billings with his friend from 40 years ago. We spent two
days at Kim’s father's house near Flathead Lake, Montana.
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A friend was willing to stay in our house and watch our kids, giving us a rare opportunity to take a vacation without
them. It could be a long time before we get another opportunity, so we made the most of it.