2025 World Cruise Part 5 – The Greek Islands & Turkey …

March 30, 2025: We have been looking forward to this part of our 2025 World Cruise since first booking it back in April 2024, when we were cruising the South Pacific. As we mentioned in previous journal entries we have few travel regrets, except not visiting our daughter back in 2009, when she did […]
2025 World Cruise Part 4 – Madeira, Portugal – Gibraltar, Siracusa, Italy…

Continuing our adventure from Africa towards the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea our first stop is in Funchal, Madeira an island of the country of Portugal. Tucked away in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Funchal — the capital of Madeira, Portugal — is one of those rare places that still feels like a hidden […]
2025 World Cruise Part 3 – The African Coastline…

Wednesday 2/26/25 At sea We departed Fremantle, Australia on 2/23/25 heading West toward Africa. We have several stops scheduled on the continent of Africa with the first being Port Louis, Mauritius. It will take us a full week at sea. Most days we spend in the gym, in the morning, maybe take in an enrichment […]
2025 World Cruise Part 2 – New Zealand & Australia…

Part 2 of our 2025 Princess World Cruise on the “Island Pricess” streets with making our 1st visit to the country of New Zealand… Friday 2/7/2025: Bay of Islands, New Zealand This will be our first ever stop in New Zealand and we are excited about it. We opted to take a formal tour at […]
2025 – World Cruise (Part 1) Los Angeles, Hawaii, & South Pacific)…

Although we have been full-time travelers, without a sticks-n-bricks home now for nearly 7 year’s we still have adventures, countries, and places on our always growing bucket list. Years ago when we would take 7 day cruises often in the Caribbean we would meet and talk to people that were doing back to back 14 […]
2023 – April – Our First Trans-Atlantic Cruise…

For years in our working life we would take a Spring cruise during April break when Joanne was teaching and I was still free before the start of my company’s busy season. We always felt it was a perfect week to get some sunshine, get re-charged, and just relax before the Spring push and then […]