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

Monday May 9 Athens Pretty easy flights - MSN-ATL and ATL-ATH. The second leg was over ten hours. I watched three movies (Momma Mia of...

Saturday January 8, 2022 Long day of travel, that went surprisingly well. Like before our Tanzania trip, I’d been stressed the two weeks...

Tuesday November 16, 2021 A long day of travel, but by 9 pm we were settling into our “rustic cabin” in Kokee State Park. Jeff, Ryan and...

September 28, 2021 We were up for our last breakfast at Bristol Cottages, and eager for the next part of this adventure. I had a sad...

Traveling to Africa The anticipation and logistics leading up to the trip were like nothing I can recall. Partly due to lack of major...

January 26 and 27, 2021 Besides difficulty in scheduling, now we’re lining up days that work for the 7 of us, and hoping for great...

1200 Miles to Kilimanjaro ... the group was sad when we needed to postpone the trip to Tanzania that had been scheduled for September...

Wednesday evening, we took Sox the cat downtown to Bailey’s condo, then came home to pack (the cat hates to see suitcases). I can pack...

To Idaho or Bust. August 6-7, 2020 The only thing that hadn’t been cancelled with this COVID pandemic so far is the Salmon River rafting...

2019 was a great adventure year for us. In addition to the trips I’ve highlighted, we spent a snowy week in Sedona AZ in February, we...

Thursday September 5, 2019 Not our “usual” kind of adventure, but we travelled to Paris / London to celebrate Bailey’s 30th birthday. Her...

Since we visited Anacortes, Washington when we'd launched our cross-country cycling trip in June 2012, I wanted to return to the San Juan...

Thursday to Friday April 25-26, 2019 This excursion is because our team was successful enough to have earned us another BrightStar “Super...

Wednesday March 27, 2019 We booked this REI adventure without paying attention to the dates of the Multiunit Franchising Conference in...

Welkom to the Netherlands! Fulfilling a long-time dream of my mother’s to bike Holland in the spring, we’ve done a quick travel...

New Zealand had long been on our adventure list. We’ve known people that really immersed in the country by renting a RV and driving both...

"You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it,...

After our collegial experience hiking together in Alaska last year, our local group of seven got together to compare bucket lists and...

United Methodist "Volunteers in Mission" Trip An opportunity to do another mission trip with my folks came up, this time with several of...