So based on this, I decided to look back and see how many sites I’ve had the chance to visit already… and here they are, with some...

Left Thursday morning in beautiful sunny weather. Stopped for coffee, gas, lunch (Whole Foods… mmmm smoothie), etc in Portland and that...

Also, if you’re easily offended, are looking for more fact than foolish, are a know-it-all who is considering wasting time correcting me,...

Day 1 – As per usual, a flight out of here in the wee hours of the morning. F’ton to Montreal uneventful, fast-tracked through Montreal...

Thursday – Day 1 in Seattle – So coming from a time zone 4 hours behind Seattle, we were up pretty early. Breakfast at the hotel...

July 1st is our national holiday here, and we spent the entire day busting ass to get ready to go away. Saturday morning, we did our...

It was about midafternoon when we got on the ship, so our cabin was already ready (C415 – a half-covered balcony on Caribe deck (deck...

We puttered around before dinner to refamiliarize ourselves with the ship (which didn’t take long), stopping for a drink and to listen to...

We wander off to explore the city for a while, because if we rest now, we’re doomed for the trip… first thing we note is that home is...

Tuck in with a coffee – it’s another long one… Embarkation Day – Tim and Mel booked us on the free shuttle to the port when they arrived...

Spent the afternoon exploring Palentine Hill and the Roman Forum on our own Friday … according to Roman mythology, this was the place...

Drive from home to Bangor was pretty uneventful, except being pulled over at the border and having the car searched. It’s not like we had...

Saturday morning… thankfully I have Nic so I don’t have to eat breakfast by myself (not that I wouldn’t) as the non-morning people snooze...

I really like the small town feel where everyone knows everyone else… and people all meet around simple places like a gas station for a...

May 8th – Wee hours of the morning… we’re off to the local airport to catch our flight away from Florida (we have to fly west from the...

A bit of background – there were 11 of us in our group, all women, aged 29 to 60. We had 5 cabins – 3 inside, 1 oceanview, and 1 balcony....

A-Bomb Dome – HIroshima Sunday, March 9th – wake up early, ready to begin the great Japanese adventure – it had been storming all day the...

THE HIGHLIGHT WILL HOGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MATT MAYS & EL TORPEDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE TREWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (# of !’s not representative of...

Bangor TravelLodge – AVOID IT AT ALL POSSIBLE COSTS!!! What a shithole! Thankfully we were only there for one night. We make a quick trip...