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 […]
2024 – Flying East for the Late Fall…
Arriving back to Desert Shadows RV Resort in late October was our plan, as we had committed to flying to the East Coast on October 23rd. Our kids had asked us to do a little babysitting while they attend a wedding in Charleston, SC. Seems like a Win-Win to us. They have reliable babysitting, we […]
2024 – October (White Sands – Guadalupe – Big Bend National Park)
Monday 10/7/2024- White Sands NP As we say our goodbyes to our caravaning friends Gordon and Debbie it is not too sad as we know we will see them over the winter in SoCal as they too have a “Snowbird” lot at Desert Shadows RV Resort. They are heading North to Page, AZ and […]
2024 – September – October Albuquerque Balloon Festival…
Sunday September 1, 2024: We arrived today to begin our 2024 Camp Host position at Assateague State Park on the Maryland Coast. As most of our friends and family know our family has been coming to Assateague Island for nearly 50 years. Thanks to MomMom & PopPop for introducing this to us and making it […]
2024 – Heading East (Antelope Canyon – Horseshoe Bend- Lake Powell – Presidential Libraries – Flight 93 Memorial)
July 29, 2024: Where do we begin with this summer’s adventures when the entire year has been such a whirlwind! Leaving 124 degree temps in SoCal behind us sure feels good! We enjoy snowbirding here for a few months but we are clear this isn’t someplace we want to be this time of year. JUST […]
2024 – June/July Post Camino Exploring Finisterre, Muxia, Porto, & Douro Valley
Monday 6/24/24 Finisterre Today we left Santiago to bus to Finisterre. The walk to the bus station was easy and we had already bought the tickets online. We arrived at the station about an hour early so we had plenty of time for breakfast; croissants and tea- our usual! We found our way down to […]