Travelog for: BarryO

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Hi there, I am BarryO, named after BarackO, and am also an American Democrat.  I will be on vacation when you meet me so won't be talking much politics.  My home base is in San Francisco, California, U.S.A. and I would love to start my travels.  This is me all ready to go with my Valentine heart sweater.  (Photo below)

See ya along the way,

BarryO

Oh, boy; a nice family has agreed to host me; I hear they are a lot of fun.   It would be bad form to say exactly where I am headed but I can show you; it is somewhere visible on this globe.  So this afternoon, I played one last game with the cat, and said goodbye to my buddies.  I am the first ToyVoyager in my family!!  The cat gave me a special hug and I’m ready to get into a soft comfy padded box inside the envelope.  I’m on my way!!

Regards,

BarryO

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Updating map.

Hello took a while for my new host family to catch on but i made it to Sunny Sacramento, California.  I was greeted by Teddy the elder bear of the house he has been calling this place home since 1997 and  has survived  3 babies, 2 dogs & a road trip to Mexico where he was almost lost forever.  I got to sleep in a very cute doll house with teddy and some of his friends. I also have spent some time out by the beautiful blossomed tree. 

Here we are resting under the tree

I got to visit the state capital!

Happy Birthday!! on St. Patrick’s Day to my dear hosts, hdezfamily.

From BarryO and Friends


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Hi, Mom, I'm home!  and I had a wonderful time. and I completed a life mission, I loved staying in that dollhouse. 

and look at all the nice things the Hdezfamily sent with me. 

Mom says, thanks, she loves them all. 

BarryO

Hi All,

I’m packing up, putting my sweater on, and hopping into my travelop to take another trip, this time far far away, near where Cheerio is headed.  I think the weather is nice there now as it is Springtime.  My fellow ToyVoyagers gave me a nice send-off with lots of hugs; they even came along to the Post Office to reassure me that it would be okay, they have all travelled at least as far.  Bye, see ‘ya soon, I’m the one with big blue Air Mail / Par Avion stickers.  LOL,

Your friend,

BarryO

Hi Mum,

I arrived at Bruchsal today, while my host was on a trip. I was so sad, when I heard, where they were: an ostrich farm. I could have completed a mission, when I would have been here yesterday.
So there are no photos of me right now, but they told me, that they will go to my host's parents tomorrow for Mother's Day. I hope, that she will take me and her camera with her then.


Bye, BarryO

Happy Mother's Day!

I want to send you these flowers via internet.



We are at my host's parents home to have lunch together. We will eat asparagus, Schnitzel in breadcrumbs, potatoes, mayonnaise and sauce hollandaise. Yummy, yummy!

Did I tell you, that Bruchsal and surroundings are famous for asparagus?





We've seen some blackbird babies, but it was just impossible to take photos of us with them, so here is just a photo of them.




At home again Petra's husband bought some icecream - yummy again.

Hi Mum,

there's such a beautiful weather today, that we toyvoyagers asked our host to take us with her and her daughter, while her daughter delivered a magazine called Konradsblatt.

At first we walked into the palace garden and I had a first look at the palace from far. I hope to come a bit closer next time.

Here you see one of the chestnut alleys.




From the same place you have a good view to this street with old houses.




Can you understand, that I want to get close? It looks really beautiful.



In the palace garden you find some statues. Four of them show the four seasons (winter, spring, summer, autumn) and four of them show the four elements (water, fire, earth and wind). Here you see the element water.



There is a nice pond in the palace garden, where you find ducks.




These houses also belong to the palace area. Behind this house you see the tower of the church St. Damian and Hugo.




The left part of this photo shows the church building. You see, that you have to walk a bit to come to the church tower.




We also stopped at this parking site. You can see me twice




From this place I had been able to see the middle part of the jailhouse. It's a really interesting building. Maybe I can take another photo of it later.




This was the last stop, before we drove home again.