Note: This post was originally started on my birthday August 2nd, and now I’m finally finishing it up a month later! I’ve been busy at home catching up on quite a few things, and feeling lots better now from my…
Post Cruise Blues from the Roof Top Bar at the HGI Heathrow Airport!
Wow – what an awesome 16 night cruise we had on the Island Princess! So much has happened since the last post and with the amazing sites we saw on the cruise it will take me at least a week…
Auto Train Home to Florida!
It’s 4:30pm as I write this and Steve (DOS) and I just boarded the Amtrak Auto Train here in Lorton, VA (just south of Washington D.C.), which will take us nonstop to Sanford (Orlando) Florida overnight, arriving around 10am. The…
Cozumel and the Chocolate Factory!
Our final port-of-call on our seven day Sky Princess Cruise was in Cozumel, Mexico. DOS and I have both been here several times over the years, and in my younger “pre-DOS” days in the late 1980s, I loved going to…
Belize City by Day, and The Chef’s Table on the Sky Princess by Night
Note: Steve (DOS) and I are both back from our 7 day Caribbean cruise on the Sky Princess. I’m continuing this blog post from our next port-of-call in Belize. Day Four: Port of Belize We started our day aboard as…
Platypus Wine Tours thru Sonoma
Our fourth and last Platypus tour of this trip, was a Platypus Tour to three wineries in Sonoma, but closer to town (and our hotel) than the previous one we had taken up past Healdsburg and to the Russian River…
Exploring Napa on our Own: Charles Krug and V. Sattui
As Steve (DOS) and I were in Napa for 5 days, we had a couple “free days” where we weren’t taking a wine tour with Platypus, which allowed us to go to a couple wineries and lunches on our own.…
Touring Napa Valley with Platypus Tours
Steve (DOS) and I stayed in Napa Valley for five nights, followed by four nights in Sonoma. We went to many different wineries ranging from the boutique to the large and well known ‘name’ wineries. As a point of reference…
Just got back from our Emerald Princess Cruise!
<Warning: This is a LONG post! Sorry in advance for any typos, duplicate photos, text, grammar or midnight gibberish mistakes on my part. > Steve (DOS) and I arrived home on Tuesday from a 10 night Emerald Princess (partial Panama…
Happy New Year 2022!
Steve (DOS) and I rang in the New Year with an overnight stay at the Hyatt Regency Orlando Convention Center, which was still beautifully decorated from Christmas. We have stayed at this Hyatt many times for overnight stay-cations, and the…