December 2024
A European Sojourn
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 [...]
A Netherlands Adventure
Overview This post covers The Netherlands portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Belgium. This included a trip to [...]
A Belgium Adventure
Overview This post covers the Belgium portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure after the Viking cruise has docked in Amsterdam after [...]
A German Adventure
Overview This post covers the German portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Austria. This included a trip to [...]
An Austrian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Austrian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up as we leave Hungary. This included a trip to Transylvania in [...]
A Hungarian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Hungarian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Croatia. This included a trip to [...]
A Croatian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Croatian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Serbia. This included a trip to [...]
A Serbian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Serbian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we leave Bulgaria. This included a trip to [...]
A Bulgarian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Bulgarian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe and picks up the adventure as we pass out of Romania. This included a [...]
A Romanian Adventure
Overview This post covers the Romanian portion our 9 country 35-day adventure across Europe. This included a trip to Transylvania in Romania, a 23-day Viking River cruise across [...]
July 2024
An Indy 500 Road Trip
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) [...]
April 2024
A Florida and Charleston SC Spring Road 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 [...]
December 2023
The Ancient Civilizations Road Trip Part 3 – Greece
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 [...]
The Ancient Civilizations Road Trip Part 2 – Egypt
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 [...]
The Ancient Civilizations Road Trip Part 1 – Italy
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 [...]
May 2023
A Slow Meandering Trip to South Florida
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 [...]
February 2023
Shenandoah Valley Getaways – A Local’s Guide
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 [...]
November 2022
Cincinnati OH & State College PA – Our 6 Month Road Trip – Part 24
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 [...]
Louisville and the Ohio River Scenic Byway – Our 6 month Road Trip – Part 23
This is post 23 on our cross-country USA adventure as we travel along the Ohio River Scenic Byway in towards Louisville Kentucky on our 6-month adventure. The following [...]
Crossing the Great Plains – Our 6-month Road Trip – Part 22
This is post 22 on our cross-country USA adventure as we travel though Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and parts of Kentucky on our 6-month adventure. This bog covers the [...]
October 2022
Utah and Colorado – Our 6-month Road Trip – Part 21
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 [...]
Crossing Arizona – Our 6-month Road Trip – Part 20
We've had a fantastic time in these first 5 months, but now it is time to head east toward our Virginia home. This post covers our journey to [...]
San Diego – Our 6-month adventure – part 19
We are doing the last part of the west coast portion of our journey before heading east and home to Virginia. This post covers our 5 days in [...]
The Nevada and California Desert Adventure – Our 6-month road trip part 18
After months in Alaska, we decided that we wanted to go where we know its going to be warm and not rain, so we are head off into [...]
Northern California – Our 6-month Alaska Adventure Part 17
Our 6-month adventure continues as we travel south through Northern California. Day 1: The Transition to the Pacific Coast in Oregon (day 133 of the overall trip) We don't [...]