As I said before, our travel would not be possible without the kind and generous help of many others at many times. Thanks to all of you (I won’t name names for fear of leaving out someone). We leave today for Spain, France, and Italy. Our full planned itinerary...

Hi, everyone. Long time, no hear. We’ve been preparing for the next stage of our travels. We’re off to house sit in Toronto, and then March 3, we head off for 3 months in Europe. Below is the itinerary. We’re going to many towns we don’t know much about...

We wanted to give everyone time to enjoy the holidays and ring in the new year. We stayed two days in Invercargill, the southernmost city in the Commonwealth of Nations (former British nations). It was very rainy and windy. A public statue outside our hotel window turned into a...

Easter Seals was a well known charity when I was a kid. But we have seen a lot of Christmas seals. (See video below.) We have also seen signs for Christmas lilies, when I had only ever heard of Easter lilies. So happy holidays from the land of summer...

I read a travel writing book a while ago that noted that smell was the one thing you could not capture on film about a foreign destination. The scent of eucalyptus as we drove through the coastal mountains of Australia was fabulous, like a free worldwide menthol air freshener....