"We haven't been everywhere, but it's on our list!"
The coronavirus, COVID-19, is disrupting travel plans worldwide and ours are being affected too. We were scheduled to visit South Korea but that’s not going to happen now; even if we still wanted to go almost all airlines have cancelled
Upon our return from Africa in February we updated our list of UN countries visited; we now stand at 114! That total is composed of 113 of the 193 current member countries of the UN and one former member country
A great article from the Globe & Mail with inspiration for 2020 travels. An especially intriguing destination idea is Expo 2020 Dubai; we’ve never been to the UAE and maybe now is the time! See all their suggestions here: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-where-to-go-in-2020-a-globe-travellers-guide/
Upon returning from our fall, 2019 trip our country count stands at 109 UN countries visited. While we enjoy keeping score, we travel primarily to see the sights and meet the people. We almost always spend at least 2 or 3 days in every new country that we visit.
On our recent January/February trip to South and Central America temperatures were in the 20’s and 30’s every day and we only saw rain 3 times in 34 days. We cleverly thought that we’d escaped all the snow shoveling back
We’ve now visited 103 countries, coincidentally the same number of elements as in the periodic table (back when we went to school!).. To celebrate, we were going to do a song set to the tune of Tom Lehrer’s “Elements Song”..
The featured image is a view of the deserted streets of San Juan Del Sur, usually overrun by tourists. Although our “Turtle Tour” in 2018 was cancelled, we have no doubt that we’ll get back to Nicaragua some day. A
The feature image is of the eruption of Mount Agung that stranded us on Bali for a day and a half. Of course “stranded” meant hanging around the beautiful hotel pool and Kuta beach, and fine dining at Un’s Restaurant.
Visited our granddaughter (our very first grandchild!) in Fremantle for a couple of weeks, then time in Indonesia on the islands of Lombok, Gili Air, Bali and Java, then Singapore, and a layover in HK. Our first stop was in
Thursday, March 29, 2018 Early morning flight to Bhutan, the “Happiest Place on Earth “. Awesome view of the Himalayas including Everest. Landed in Paro and we’re quite excited to celebrate our milestone goal of visiting 100 countries.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 We are half way! Having reached the Maldives, we have now visited half the countries in today’s world. There are 193 UN countries, so country #97 is right in the middle. Of course we’ve visited several
Awfully chilly for BC, but beautiful. Why we’re headed off travelling again!
If we have to be home during the winter, then Vancouver is certainly one of the nicest places in Canada!