BMW
BMW USA Grand Tour 2022
The BMW USA Grand Tour 2022 was the brainchild of Austin Lundeby who thought it would be a fitting gift for his dad’s 70th birthday (Surprise!) to invite him to the two day BMW High Performance Driving School in Thermal, CA (southern CA near Palm Springs). And better yet, this plan involved a road trip […]
Ireland
A tour of Ireland by a bunch of Geezrs in 2022
In May of 2022, 11 Geezrs flew to Ireland, rented three cars, and in 10 days covered more than 1,400 miles, discovering the complex history, the great food, and the wonderful hospitality of the people of Ireland. During our whirlwind tour, we learned many things, including: Ireland is truly green, everywhere A stranger will stop […]
Russia
Moscow Market Day
Refreshed after a good night’s sleep in our comfortable bed, we were ready for our first full day in Moscow. Alexey, who’d already been up for hours which is his way, gave us a tutorial on using the new, high-tech DeLonghi coffee maker. We were nervous that he may have bought it because he knew […]
Russia
To Moscow by train and our next adventure
One final spectacular breakfast at the equally spectacular Kempinski Hotel, and we were off to the train station. Alexey had kindly made all arrangements, and in no time, we were happily seated in our luxurious car. Moscow is about a three and a half-hour train ride southeast from St. Petersburg, which gave us ample time to see […]
Russia
Goose Goose and Goodbye to St. Petersburg
With only one more day in St. Petersburg, we decided to stroll and eat and take a more leisurely pace. The weather was a bit chilly and overcast but nothing good Minnesotans and Muscovites couldn’t handle. With pizza and a prix fixe “businessman’s lunch,” Goose Goose was our choice for a hearty, well-prepared meal. The […]
Russia
On to the Russian Museum and the Mikhailovsky Palace
If a person wanted to sample more than 400,000 works of art covering all of the historical periods, forms, genres, styles, movements and schools embracing nearly a thousand years of Russian history, a person would be standing in The Russian Museum in St. Petersburg right this minute. Even reading that description (entirely plagiarized from the […]
