This is the final of three installments of our 12-day visit to Kauai. If you missed the first two, click here to read about our helicopter ride and here for our explorations in the South Shore and West Side. The yellow marks on the map below indicate places we visited while on the East Side … More Kauai’s East Side, North Shore and a Boat Tour
Once we’d seen the lay of the island from the air, we were ready to rock and roll via land and water. Click here if you missed our epic helicopter flight, to get a glimpse of the greenest of the Hawaiian Islands. In the planning phase of our trip we learned that Kauai has four major … More Exploring Kauai’s West Side and South Shore
I had promised myself that after we sold Betsy and the CR-V I’d take a break from blogging. Our three recent road trips to San Diego, CA, Greer, AZ, and Palisade, CO to escape from the desert heat were all worthy of a blog post, but I held to my promise. That is, until we … More An outdoor paradise – Kauai, HI
Well, yes… since our big move to Wickenburg and becoming permanent desert dwellers. In case you missed my previous post, many things have transpired in our home, our family and our “normal” world. I promised myself that I would resurface in the blog world again when Betsy sold, and at long last she has found … More A year later – settled into our new life
As you may recall, amidst this pandemic we rented a house in Wickenburg, Arizona to confirm this is where we would exit from our nomadic lifestyle. Halfway through our lease and after living in this little town of about 10,000 people, we realized it was where we wanted to settle down. We checked out several … More Back to the stix and brix!
We agreed sometime in 2019 that our return to Tucson, AZ at the end of the year would be the conclusion of our full-time travels. During the past 8 years we’ve visited every U.S. state (several of them multiple times) and much of Canada. We even slipped down into Mexico a couple of times to … More Transitioning to a new chapter of our life
This long-overdue post covers the final excursions we took on our aborted Viking World Wonders cruise that ended in Bali. Yes, this post is stale, but when we arrived back in the states on March 10th we were in no mood to write (or even read) blogs for a while. With the world turned topsy-turvy … More Final Day of World Wonders Cruise – Day 65, Bali, Indonesia
Cruise days 63,64 – Mar 8,9 In case you missed our previous post, by the time you read this we’re settled back into Betsy, back to reality and our “normal” life in Tucson, AZ. Our final port stop at Bali, Indonesia – Our problems disembarking the ship due to the Coronavirus hysteria heightened as we … More World Wonders Cruise Diary – Days 63,64 – Bali, Indonesia
Cruise day 61 – Mar 5 By the time you read this we’ve returned to Arizona cutting short our World Wonders Cruise. It basically fell apart as far as the destinations we wanted to see – although Viking Sun is continuing with no planned itinerary. The World Health Organization has just declared Covid 19 a … More World Wonders Cruise Diary – Day 61 – Semarang and Surabaya, Indonesia – FAIL!
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