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Japan 2025
29 September 2025 Other than the 4am alarm and the 4:30am Uber pickup to get us to the Madison airport for our 6am flight to MSP, it was a relatively painless travel day. We arrived in Minneapolis just as the sun was rising, and stumbled our way to the Delta club where we vegged out and ate some breakfast. When we were fully awake, we walked our usual loop and gathered with the large crowd at the G gate where we were squeezed in due to the renovation currently taking place in


Great Western Electric Vehicle Road Trip (Grand Canyon Rafting, Glacier Park Cycling and Columbia River Gorge Cruise and Cycling) August 2025
Thursday July 31, 2025 Last May, we went just to look at the new Audi Q6 EV, and ended up buying it! In the back of my mind, I didn’t...


MEDITERRANEAN ADVENTURE - May 2025
Day 1-3. May 16-18, 2025 We left Madison around 3pm on Friday, and arrived in Barcelona about 3pm on Saturday. Travel went well, boosted...


CALIFORNIA April - May 2025
Carmel Friday April 25 - Tuesday April 29, 2025 We had an uneventful travel day, with two tight connections (MSP and SLC) but everything...


NATCHEZ TRACE CYCLING TRIP - April 2025
Thursday April 10, 2025 Jeff suggested that we head south to find a place to ride while awaiting Spring to fully arrive in Wisconsin. I...


TULUM MEXICO February 2025
We are so blessed to travel with our adventure companions! Many people that hear of our adventures ask to be included, and on occasion,...


CENTRAL AMERICA (Guatemala and Costa Rica) - January 2025
Friday January 3, 2025 While we were on the plane in Madison incredibly early this morning, I looked at my Facebook feed and saw a...


ST. JOHN (USVI) - December 2024
St John, US Virgin Islands December 6-14, 2024 Among the many things on our bucket list was to do a National Park...


PORTUGAL - September 2024
August 30, 2024 I was so excited for this trip, I’d been packed for over a week and was up early in the morning with anticipation! We...


ISLE ROYALE BACKPACKING - July 2024
Friday July 19, 2024 The Magnificent Seven are back on adventure. We gathered at our lake home yesterday afternoon on a glorious day in...


ROME to VENICE CRUISE - April-May 2024
Rome April 26-27, 2024 We arrived in Rome about 5pm Thursday evening. Each of three flights were late, which made for 1 hour connections...


COSTA RICA - January 2024
January 5, 2024 Almost as soon as we returned from last year’s Yoga Retreat at Imiloa Institute near Dominical Costa Rica, we booked...


CORNWALL (England) - September 2023
Saturday September 23, 2023 Funny moment on our flight from Inverness to London yesterday: the steward came down the aisle offering...


SCOTLAND - September 2023
September 14-15, 2023 Since we were travelling all this way, I decided to book a few additional excursions – hiking trips in the Scottish...


IRELAND - September 2023
8/31/2023 For several years we’ve been fans of a musical duo “Moors and McCumber” – James Moors and Kort McCumber. We were first...


29029 - EVERESTING Aug 2023
Augu st 8-13, 2023 We left Camp Paxson, Montana in the early morning on Tuesday to embark on our 8-hour drive to Huntsville, Utah (just...


GLACIER BACKPACKING - July 2023
It had been a while since the Magnificent Seven took a trip together (other than the Ice Age Trial which we finished earlier this month)....


ICE AGE TRAIL (PART THREE) - NOV 2021 - JUNE 2023
It’s tough for our group to schedule time, especially over the winter months with people taking extended breaks from the Wisconsin...


COLORADO - August 2022
Our hiking group had originally planned to travel to Colorado in August 2020 to get some acclimation before Kilimanjaro in September...


CANADA - July 2022
Vancouver 5 July 2022 At the beginning of the holiday weekend, there were news reports of cancelled flights and people being stranded at...
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