The Barker’s World

Well, my journey is almost over. I took a plane yesterday morning to Athens, took a taxi to a bus station to catch a bus to Volos. When I got to Volos, I went to the customs broker’s office to get my car, but it turns out that the customs office was closed for the [...]

Well, it has been 3 weeks now since we flew into Chania Airport on the western end of the island of Crete. We arrived at night and one of Matt’s coworkers met us at the airport to make sure we got in okay. Once we got our rental car, he showed us the way [...]

Well, we’ve been in Crete for 3 weeks now, but before I start writing about that, I wanted to share some of the last photos we took before we left Heidelberg.
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Well, it is almost that time. We are now just 2 days away from our big move to the island of Crete. It has been a very long process to get this done and now that the time is upon us, it is just now starting to hit us that we are actually moving. We [...]

Well, this has been one very hectic week for the Barker clan. For those that don’t know already, we are in the process of moving to Chania, on the island of Crete in Greece. This has been in the works for some time now, but just recently started coming together.
When we got back from our [...]

A trip back home just isn’t complete without heading up to the top of Mount Lemmon. Nana and Papa have a cabin up there that the family gets to enjoy throughout the year. Fortunately, the big fire of 2003 didn’t burn it down. Some brave firefighters did some fantastic work to make sure that didn’t [...]

While we were staying with Nana and Papa, we took a quick trip over to a winefest at the Sonoita Vineyards in Elgin. Not many people know that they make wine in this area, but they do - and it’s pretty darn good at that. What’s even better about this area is the scenery; once [...]

For the second half of our trip back, we stayed with Matt’s parents in Corona De Tucson (just outside of Tucson). We had a great time with Nana and Papa. The boys loved picking up the Mesquite beans and feeding them to their cousin Samantha’s horses! They also got to ride around a lot on [...]

For the first half of our trip back home to Arizona, we stayed with Ginger’s parents in St. David. The boys really love going here; not only because they get to see grandma and grandpa, but also because of all the cool “toys” grandma and grandpa have.  We spent a wonderful week here, hanging out [...]

Here is a panorama I took the other day when we went to the Elgin Wine Festival. This is located in the town of Elgin (go figure!) between Tucson and Sierra Vista. If you want to see where this is exactly, take a look here. Hope you like it!

An Arizona Landscape