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In 2016 I walked the Way of St. James from St. Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela. The first 10 days were with my sisters and my nephew Sam and then Sam and I continued for another 27 days. I raved about it and would often start talking to Paul about an experience…

Madeleine and I had both been to Porto before and were very excited to return and have Paul experience it for himself. I was a bit worried that we had hyped it up a bit too much and the reality would be underwhelming but, Porto did not disappoint and we all loved our time discovering…

We were so excited when our friend Madeleine said she would try to join us for a week or so on our trip. We sent her the itinerary and left the meeting point up to her. She chose Portugal, specifically the Algarve and Porto and we were beyond thrilled!! We first met Madeleine in Peru…

It all started with this. We were walking to get something in our neighborhood (yes, probably more wine), and I glanced over as we passed through a nearby narrow “street” and saw this. We’d experienced a speakeasy years ago in Seattle, so it definitely got our attention. We reached out on IG to see about…

We loved Lisbon!! Perhaps being our first city in Europe on our trip may have had something to do with it, but we feel it may be more than that. The city of 7 hills (only!!?? I didn’t count but it felt like we had to walk up or down a little or a lot,…

We are on the last day of our “Best of Morocco” tour with Intrepid and, in short, the travel experience has been very successful!! We have seen a LOT, learned a LOT, had some lovely shared experiences and met some very nice people. We would not travel with a tour group in every country but,…

This may end up being a bad idea (as in way too unwieldy), but here’s a diary of our inaugural attempt at doing an actual organized tour in Morocco. We’ll update this as we go. March 26: That’s a wrap for Marrakech, Morocco, and our time with the Intrepid Tour and all our new friends.…

There are some places that I have heard about, in name only for years but never really understand what the big deal was. That was Wadi Rum for me. I know a little more now. It is a protected desert area in the southern part of Jordan that is populated by the Beduin people. It…

We like to think of ourselves as savy, seasoned travellers who know how to ask the right questions so as to get what we want (or sometimes make a decision to not do something). But sometimes, as we were reminded today, things just don’t happen as you expect them to. Case in point our desire…

“You must really like Petra”, was a comment I received on my Instagram. Were we that obvious? I guess so because yes, yes we did. We really liked Petra! I defy anyone to come here and NOT like Petra. Take me up on it, I dare you… And then I saw arrows and couldn’t resist…