Apologies: this post is really out of date. I was behind in the posts and then my computer died. We were moving around so much in May...

I am on a roll.....We spent just 3 days in Japan. The only reason we ended up in Tokyo was because I looked at the return trip from...

Yes, I am going to catch up on the travels while we are in Guatemala for two weeks at Susan's brother's house. Steve married Barbara, a...

Well, this got a little behind. My apologies. We are currently in Mahajual, Mexico, staying with a friend who has been in the southern...

I have found that posting photos on the Wix blog site is getting harder and harder (taking forever to download). I suspect that the site...

This post will skip over our Bangkok and Angkor Wat times (to be covered in later posts) to try to capture the experience we had in the...

But first: A quick final note on Vietnam: We finished our Hanoi-based tours with a day in Ninh Binh, which is about two hours from Hanoi...

So we are at the halfway point of our travels -- six months! We have been to Portugal, Spain, Berlin, the Cascade Mountains inWashington...

OK, so we left our intrepid travelers heading for Hoi An, where it rained for 6 days straight. Still, some good times were had. Our 2nd...

So we ended our New Zealand tour with three days in Auckland, staying at my cousin's home (Mark and Mary Perkins). We also spent time...

We flew from Cairns (Australia) to Queenstown (NZ) via Jetstar Air, on which you pay for all the food and liquids you want and for the...

Well, it is official - we have done Australia. Kind of. We flew from Honolulu to Melbourne on 11/7. The excitement started when we got to...

We left the Cascades last Saturday (October 29) and our host (long time friend, Lee) went way out of his way to drive us to Bellingham,...

To follow up a bit about the penguins and pickles: Lauren and Cody specialize in finding interesting things for us to do while we are in...

It has been a while between writing posts, although #6 just got published because of low wifi strength at our last stay. We entered...

The El Camino is different for everyone who walks it. But the grueling effort to walk 10 to 20 miles a day is a reality that everyone...

THE FRANCESHINAS

So we started walking El Camino on Friday. Saturday was another trek mostly along the coast with beautiful weather and incredible views....

So we left Madeira on Wednesday. Flew to Lisbon and took a train to Porto. The train was little more exciting than it should have been,...

We have been on the island of Madeira for nearly a month. We have walked a lot of the island, both to get to know the place and to get us...