Travel is usually fun but is definitely not without its headaches. One such headache became amplified...
Travel
Travel Subtopics
I hadn't blogged for a couple weeks because I've been traveling. First, I went to California...
The night before boarding a plane to Shanghai, I made a point to watch the movie...
One downside to traveling is that it is harder to stick with any sort of exercise...
Beginning in 1999, I started a "foreign-country-a-year" streak. Unfortunately, it ended in the pandemic year of...
Recent Travels
Below are some of my most recent travels. The rest are filed in the subtopics at the top of this page.
After the Los Angeles Consulate approved my first non-lucrative visa (NLV) application for Spain, I was relieved...
Over the last year, I’ve heard from many American friends who either retired to Portugal or...
“Finished planning Portugal trip,” wrote my dear friend Tori. “September 24 to October 12. You are...
“Tomorrow,” my dad suggested late Wednesday night, “you should take Andrea to Yosemite.” That idea had...
For our final week of vacation, we went to northern California. There were many reasons to...
The Alaskan Wildlife Conservation Center trip was such a delight that we wondered if we should partake in...
Photo by Andrea
Andrea was particularly interested in seeing bears and the Northern Lights in Alaska. While finding the...
“It’s going to be cold in Alaska,” I told Andrea a month before we were in...
Initially, I wasn’t planning on having us visit southern California during our whirlwind, month-long, five-state tour...
Photo by Andrea
“There won’t be much to see in Ohio,” I told Andrea before the trip. “Therefore, we...