Ireland in the rain
A whirlwind tour of the Emerald Isle between rain showers
Dreams, Failures and learning English
Our last week in Lancaster and a trip to Knaresborough
Our evening walk home
Our walk home
London Calling
Four days in London, pubs, plays and Egyptian mummies.
Boat on the water, not boat on a lake
Boat on water not boat on a lake
The Budget, the Lake and a Walk over the Bay
The June budget a trip to the Lake District and a walk across Morecambe Bay
A walk among the fields with Lancaster Castle in the distance
Escape from the Schengen Zone to Lancaster England
Time running out on our Visa we take Ryan air to England
Hamburg from the Elphie
Hamburg with Viviane
The industrial city of Hamburg Germany with Kelly's exchange sister Viviane
Nyhavn, Copenhagen
48 Hours in Denmark
A 48 hour tour of Copenhagen Denmark with local artist Tina Jensen and her husband Ole
Celebrating Sweden
A week in southern Sweden celebrating with family
Even a less than perfect Paris is still pretty good
Day trips from Paris to Giverny and Chartres then ending our stay with a food tour of Montmartre
Sacre Coeur
Sacre Coeur
Cousins in Paris and the May Budget
Joining my cousins in Paris for two weeks, and our May budget numbers are in
A bit of Italy and the barging life in France
A spontaneous venture into Italy and a few days on a French barge
Villefranche
Villefranche
Greetings from the French Riviera
A week on the French Riviera from our home base in Villefranche
A week in Provence
Week touring Provence France from the City of Arles
Floating through Dordogne
A week in Sarlat and the Dordogne region of France
Our home for the week
Our home for a week
A chateau and 18 friends in the Loire valley
18 friends gather in the Loire valley to live the chateau life for a week
Mont St. Michel, and our April budget numbers are in
Mont St. Michel and a review of the April budget numbers
Walking Omaha Beach at sunrise
Walking Omaha Beach at Sunrise
A pilgrimage to Normandy
Four days touring Normandy and the D-Day beaches
Boppard town square
Germany’s Rhine River Valley and Boppard.
Germany's Rhine River Valley while based in Boppard.
A Rainy day in Heidelberg
Heidelberg Germany, the GlobeTurners’ European tour begins.
The GlobeTurners are off to Europe, first stop Heidelberg Germany
Antelope Canyon
Antelope Canyon and Monument Valley
A trip through Antelope Canyon and Monument Valley on the Navajo Reservation
The desert is beautiful
Phoenix and the Taupe suburbs
Phoenix, sunshine, spring training, and a bit of cold, wind and rain.
Joshua Tree the park, not the album. And a Budget update.
Joshua Tree a photo tour and the February budget numbers are in
LA... mansions, palm trees and the occasional hippy
Welcome to LA
Welcome to the Hotel California … Los Angeles and environs
Our travels through Southern California
Rocky Creek Bridge and Highway 1
Rocky Creek Bridge and Highway 1
We get by with a little help from our friends…. Monterey to Big Sur
Friends and family are hosting many of our stays this year. So much so that this blog could be one long thank you note, from Jim and Amy in Seattle…
We left our budget in San Francisco
Our road of choice to San Francisco was the classic California Highway 1. This is the road to take if you are not in a hurry. Along the stretch north…
Roadtrip, Seattle to Sonoma
In Seattle it tends to be rainy and cold in February. I know it is not Minnesota cold but as I have been known to say, “I didn’t mind the…
Bucerias, saving the best for last
During our final days in PV we decided to stay a couple of nights in Bucerias, about 45 minutes north of PV. We booked a hotel room at Vista…
This is a pretty good life
As we head into our last week in Puerto Vallarta we are constantly taking stock of our life here. Traveling the world is our current goal but we want to…
Conchas Chinas to Sayulita a day in pictures
Friday was a day of extreme laziness where we only left the apartment to pick up charcoal for the BBQ with a required a stop at the restaurant down the…
Puerto Vallarta Sunset
Puerto Vallarta a Love, Hate, Love relationship
When last we spoke we had just arrived in PV and were really enjoying the new surroundings. What is not to like? The weather is beautiful, the water is warm,…
The first Sunset
The First Sunset
Nomadic Retirement Day one, or is it two? Puerto Vallarta
Everyone asks, “do you feel unburdened, free, not a care in the world?” Not really. Don’t get me wrong, we don’t have any regrets, it is an adventure we have…
A Calendar…..really?
Exciting news on the GlobeTurners blog,… a calendar!!! Ok, not that exciting but we think it’s cool. We now have a calendar of upcoming travel on the Blog. There remain…
40 years of friendship through travel
In 1977 a young woman from Brazil traveled to California from her home in Venancio Aires 200 miles south of Sao Paulo, a high school exchange student with the…
Life on the Lake is good retirement training
We left Seattle just in time to catch the morning traffic, an hour later we had finally escaped the city heading east on I 90, summer road construction slowed our…
Prevost harbor at Sunrise
San Juan Weekend
Each year Kelly and I join my sisters and family for an extended outing. We have hiked the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim and have run/walked the Monterrey half marathon.…
Boston Airbnb
Where will you live?
Whenever we tell people our plan for 2019 and beyond one of the first questions is "where will you live". My stock answers are "a nice tent" or "well we…
Crystal Mountain Lunch
A great sunny day in the northwest and we decided to take Dad for lunch at the Summit House located at the top of the Crystal Mountain resort Gondola. Fantastic…
The plan
The plan to quit work and Travel the world. I think the idea is to have no plan. We have been planning our lives for far too long...…
