On this trip to our Australian home away from home, Fremantle (or Freo as it’s always called by the locals), we arrived in early September to celebrate a family birthday. It just so happened that we were in town for
Freo Footy Fiasco
ULC 5-Year Commemorative Ordination Certificate
Why the heck is a Universal Life Church ordination certificate on our travel blog? “Sherman, set the WABAC Machine for 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.“ Back in 2021, we were well over a year into the great COVID-19 lockdown that
10 Types of People Who Shouldn’t Step Foot on a Cruise
The image below links to a PDF reprint of a recent AOL.com article titled “10 Types of People Who Shouldn’t Step Foot on a Cruise”. We are definitely Types #2 “People who want an authentic cultural experience in another country”
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
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