Hi Everyone! We just returned from a 2-week trip to Portugal. As Portugal has recently become a more popular travel destination for Americans (and it has the highest growth rate of expats of any other country in the world), we will tell you as much as we can about
Two years ago, my (Mike's) family did an Alaskan cruise during which we tried salmon fishing. Although it was fun, we didn't have much success because a) not the best time of year, b) it was a short-duration trip and we couldn't boat
As Jen and I have begun our retirement traveling, there have been a few trips on my "bucket list" (BL). A couple of those trips I've been able to complete recently which I'll write about in these next two posts. The first was a
Hi Everyone - As mentioned in our last post, we returned recently from Antigua where we spent a few days on the island, and then a week on a sailboat. I decided to write a separate post about charter sailing in case you might be considering it as a vacation option.
Hi Everyone! We've just returned from nearly two weeks in Antigua. The first several days were on the island, and the final week was on a charter sailboat. So I will make one post about the island, and a later post about charter boat sailing. Antigua and Barbados
Hi Everyone! It has been a long time since our last post. For the past 6 months, we took a break from our travels to spend time with family. Last year in January, Jen and I fled the cold and went to Key West for a couple weeks, but my
One of our long-awaited bucket list trips was to visit Ireland together. Last month we finally did it! As promised, we wanted to give you an overview and review of what we did in case you are thinking of making this trip yourself! Jen and I flew into Dublin
Hi Everyone! We wanted to give you a few quick updates on the sailboat and our next trip. First, the sailboat (Just Ducky) made it safely across the Pacific. She arrived on August 29th into Long Beach, California (San Diego had some construction ongoing and it was much more expensive)
This will probably be our last blog this trip, so it might be long. We've been in Okinawa for almost a week and wanted to share what the visit has been like. After helping our crew for a couple days, they departed on Monday, July 21st, for San
After 11 days at sea, we finally arrived in Okinawa on Friday morning! Unfortunately, our arrival was not without incident (more on that in a minute). Since our last blog, we experienced some nice sailing. Winds were good, the seas were calmer, and Jen was mostly back to normal. The
Day 10 at sea. We saw land on day 8 as we passed around the northern part of the Philippines, otherwise it's been all water. Day 8 was the most "interesting" day we've had so far. It started out by deciding to raise our
Many of you have asked about what the boat looks like, so I thought I would give you a pictorial tour of where we have lived the past 9 days. Our ride and temporary home is a 55 foot Max Cruise catamaran called Just Ducky. I don't know