OK, it’s not much but it’s better than nothing. First new country in almost 2 years, as we added the Bahamas to our list. We’d be lying if we said that we didn’t pick one of the Caribbean islands that
Country Count Updated to 115
It’s official; we’re not going ANYWHERE any time soon
On March 13th, 2020 Canada issued a level 3 travel advisory (“avoid non-essential travel”) for the entire globe. We’re grounded. Our thoughts are with those countries so much harder hit than Canada (so far), and we look forward to resuming
Coronavirus and Travel Plans
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
Country Count Updated to 114
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
Where to go in 2020: A Globe traveller’s guide
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/
Country Count Updated to 109!
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.
Why we escape winter
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
Celebrating 103!
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”..
Planned visit to Nicaragua cancelled
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
Stranded on Bali by Mount Agung Eruption
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.
Off to Australia again (and Indonesia, Singapore, and Hong Kong)
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
Our 100th Country!
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.
Half the countries of the world!
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
Snowy and cold
Awfully chilly for BC, but beautiful. Why we’re headed off travelling again!
Colony Farm Walk
If we have to be home during the winter, then Vancouver is certainly one of the nicest places in Canada!