In the fall of 2025, we’ll visit Japan again and start our trip in Tokyo. On our first trip to Japan we only visited Japan’s earliest capital cities, Nara and Kyoto, and we are looking forward to visiting the current
The Night Lights of Tokyo
Home for Homeless Homing Pigeons
When we visit the Amazon rainforest in Brazil next year, we hope to reach the remote village of Loof Lirpa to visit the Home for Homeless Homing Pigeons. The Amazonian subspecies of the common homing pigeon, Columba livia amazonum, nests
Amazon Cruise (ver 2.0)
When we created our trip page, Uruguay and the Amazon, we were planning to cruise the Amazon from its mouth up to Manaus, Brazil and back on a large cruise ship. We have had to pivot, and have cancelled that
Elbows Up Canada!
The feature image above is from the CBC article “‘Elbows up’ rallying cry evokes memories of Mr. Hockey” which provides the origin story for the Elbows Up catchphrase. As mentioned on our Amazon Trip Page, we’ve cancelled our plans to
The Goroka Festival…2024!
The Goroka Festival in Papua New Guinea just finished its 2023 run, and PNG’s The National said “Goroka Show hailed a success“. So we’ve begun making plans to attend the 2024 version a year from now. We’ve started a website
Cherry Blossoms and Climate Change
It now appears that our 2024 trip to Japan and Korea won’t be at cherry blossom season. But that may have been impossible to predict in any case since climate change is cited as the reason for the wild swings
Through the Eyes of Van Gogh and…..???
This must be the unluckiest trip that we have ever planned! We bought tickets in 2019 only to see the flights cancelled in 2020 when the pandemic hit. Bought another set of tickets in 2021 when things seemed to be
Plans for Spring, 2020
Those cherry blossoms aren’t in Japan, but in South Korea. Although our South Korea plans got scrubbed in 2020 due to the pandemic, we will get there, just no idea when! ORIGINAL POST FROM BACK IN 2019: We’ve got our
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
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