{"id":1473,"date":"2015-09-25T16:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2019-11-17T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T14:33:16","slug":"jeff-wilson-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/jeff-wilson-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Travel Tales from The Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wilson_Family_Mojave_Natl_Preserve.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1475\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wilson_Family_Mojave_Natl_Preserve.jpg\" alt=\"Wilson_Family_Mojave_Natl_Preserve\" width=\"4212\" height=\"2808\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>by: <a href=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smart Coos<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Family Travel Tales from The Rails<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeff Wilson, the host for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realrailtv.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Rail TV<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> travels for business, as well as with his family for several months out of each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, we had the pleasure to sit down with Jeff to find out some of his favorite vacation spots.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9289218266222230\" data-ad-slot=\"2581675933\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of our favorites include:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>What are some of you favorite vacation spots? Why?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trekking on the southwest coast of Portugal on the relatively new <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotavicentina.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rota Vicentina Fisherman\u2019s Way<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> . Last summer, as part of a car-camping trip through Spain, Portugal, and the French Pyrenees, we spent four days hiking village to village along the rocky cliffs of the Atlantic. In the evenings, we bedded down in campgrounds or B&amp;Bs and ate the local dishes like pork &amp; clams in garlic, lemon, and fresh cilantro, all mopped up with fresh, homemade bread. Or grilled squid and sardines. For us adults, we appreciated the inexpensive yet fantastic wines of the region. We all loved the sunsets and pristine beaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Why do you car-camp in Europe?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Car-camping is a great way to get to know Europe, bringing the cost down for families and exposing you to middle-class Europeans (instead of just more American tourists!). Two summers before the trip above, we car-camped from Prague down through Cesky Krumlov in southern Bohemia, then through Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, and back to the Czech Republic on a month-long excursion. Our favorites? A farm &nbsp;stay with the Stojsic family in the mountain towns of central Istria . . . there we enjoyed the farm\u2019s wine, cheese, prsut (Croatian Prosciutto), and got to know the family and the animals. We were treated to an excellent homemade meal of venison stew, homemade bread and pasta, a mixed salad from the garden, and tiny Istrian donuts with garden strawberries for dessert. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reidsguides.com\/destinations\/europe\/croatia\/istria\/istria1-intro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">l<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reidsguides.com\/destinations\/europe\/croatia\/istria\/istria1-intro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">earn more about the Stojsic family\u2019s farm here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and check out <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/wilsonfamilyfilms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">his family\u2019s video series on that entire trip here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>What do you do when you\u2019re not traveling?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we\u2019re not traveling abroad, we enjoy spending the summers in our Aliner camper, traveling the west before spending a month camped on the Columbia River at my in-laws\u2019 cattle ranch near Washougal, WA, just up river from Portland, OR. This summer we\u2019ll be spending ten days canoeing the Green River through Canyonlands National Park to the confluence with the Colorado River. Bound to become a family favorite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you and your family have a favorite vacation spot? We want to hear about it.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1474\" style=\"width: 1328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wilson_Rota_Vicentina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1474\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wilson_Rota_Vicentina.jpg\" alt=\"Southwest coast of Portugal - Rota Vicentina\" width=\"1328\" height=\"747\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Southwest coast of Portugal &#8211; Rota Vicentina<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9289218266222230\" data-ad-slot=\"2581675933\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; by: Smart Coos Family Travel Tales from The Rails Jeff Wilson, the host for Real Rail TV travels for business, as well as with his family for several months out of each year. Recently, we had the pleasure to sit down with Jeff to find out some of his favorite vacation spots. &nbsp; Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-language-inspirations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}