Overview For years we heard a lot of good things about taking a river cruise in Europe. After sampling the river cruise experience for a few days in Egypt on the Nile in 2023, we decided to take the plunge and go all in with Viking's 23-day Cross Europe cruise called European Sojourn (their longest river cruise). Go big or go home as the saying goes! So, we even front-ended and back-ended this cruise starting [...]
Overview A trip to the Indy 500 was a bucket list item for us and one of our sons (who has gone every year for over 15 years) finally got us to plan a trip out to this enormous event. We put in our request for tickets in June of 2023 through the Indianapolis Motor Speedway website. In September we were notified we'd been granted 2 tickets and so we began laying out a trip [...]
Overview Our first trip of the year took us to south to get out of the late winter weather and to explore and experience some of what the south has to offer in early March. On this trip we made stops and visited in the following towns and cities over the course of three weeks. As always when we head south this time of year, we try and meet up with friends and family, catch [...]
Overview In 2016, we visited the Island of Crete in Greece for several weeks and had a blast, however, we've never been to mainland Greece. High on our bucket list was the Acropolis in Athens as well as a number of other famous archeological sites such as Olympia, Delphi and Mycenae. We started planning for this trip by reaching out to Insight Guides, a company that connects travelers with hand-picked local travel experts. On their [...]
Overview After a lifetime of thinking about it, we finally pulled the trigger on going to Egypt and visiting this part of the ancient world - and our son Carl was able to join us. We planned the trip 5 months in advance and 2 weeks before our departure, the "war" between Hamas and Israel erupted at the Gaza Strip, just 6 hours from Cairo. We did some research (including talking with someone whose husband [...]
Overview For us, there is nothing like a road trip and we kicked off our fall 2023 travel with an Italy road trip that focused on picking up several places we didn't get to see the last time we were here in 2016. Our friend Carole retired to Italy about 9 years ago and she's helped with a lot of the travel planning. It really beneficial when traveling to have a "local" who knows some [...]
Overview It's early spring in Virginia in March and Nancy and I have gotten cabin fever after being home for 3+ months from our 6 1/2-month cross country road trip to Alaska and we ready to hit the road once again. This short 1-month trip down through the south enabled us to experience spring through summer and then back to spring again while we travelled down to south Florida and back to our home in [...]
Overview We live a few miles outside of Round Hill Virginia up on the Blue Ridge and this is within easy striking distance of a great deal of the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia. I grew up in this area of the country but have travelled widely across North America, and I still believe that the Shenandoah Valley is still one of the most beautiful areas. The last few years we have been road [...]
This is post 23 on our cross-country USA adventure as we travel along the Ohio River Scenic Byway to Cincinatti and finally home to VA on our 6-month adventure. The following areas in are covered in this post. Day 1: Louisville, KY to Covington, KY (day 182 of the overall trip) Louisville to Madison We leave Louisville and head back across the Ohio river to Indiana where we pick up Route 62. We're [...]
This is post 21 on our cross-country USA adventure as we travel though Utah and Colorado, on our 6-month adventure. The following areas in Utah and Colorado are covered in this post. Day 1: Prescott Valley to Monticello, UT (day 161 of the overall trip) On last year's road trip, we had 4 different stops in New Mexico as well as several in Texas. Even though it is warmer there, we opt to go north [...]
