Steve (DOS) and I are currently on an 8 night Royal Caribbean (RCCL) cruise, sailing to Curacao, Aruba, and a lazy day at Coco Cay. We are sailing aboard the beautiful Mariner of the Seas, which for RCCL is now…
Amtrak Auto Train – Southbound to Florida!
After a lengthy stay in Virginia, I was able to convince Steve (DOS) to take the Amtrak Auto train back home to Orlando instead of driving all that way. We had taken the Auto Train together once before (and I…
Pre-Christmas weekend at Jekyll Island 2018
Jekyll Island pre-Christmas 2018 -Arrival day One After a wonderful night out at Bern’s, we drove from the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay Airport, to Jekyll Island Georgia for a 3 night pre-Christmas weekend, in what has now become a yearly…
Safari bound! Welcome to Makanyi Private Game Lodge!
After a two night’s stay at the Hyatt Regency in Johannesburg, Steve (DOS) and I flew from Johannesburg to Hoedspruit, South Africa. The flight was less than an hour aboard an Embraer 140 jet, and as the flight wasn’t full…
Touring the Chilean Wineries – Day Uno
On our first day of wine touring, we went to two wineries plus had a wine pairing lunch at a third. After having a full breakfast in the hotel, we packed up and checked out of our hotel, the Hyatt…
Finnair and British Airways Business Class flights home from Singapore
In this day of the Jet age, it’s amazing how you can go from one part of the world to another, literally overnight, or with our routing a couple days. After a wonderful and quick trip to Singapore, we reversed…
Heading home from Saõ Paulo
Like all good trips (or even bad ones), the trip eventually comes to an end and it’s time to go home. Considering our whirlwind trip to Brazil, and we had only a couple nights in Saõ Paulo, it still felt…
Minnesota work-week ends with Friday travel woes
I’ve gotten a bit behind in posting since I got back from Easter Island, and traveling for work. I have been writing about our experiences on Easter Island over the July 4th weekend in the last few posts, but will…
Pre-Christmas weekend at Jekyll – part 1
I haven’t posted in a bit as my 6 year old Macbook Pro finally went out. Well sort of; it still works if you hook it up to an external monitor, but the display screen went out, so it’s a…