Christmas in the Amazon!

The four of us on-shore on one of our many adventures!

In December of 2023 we embarked on a very long awaited dream-cruise with our dear friends David and Cindy. We had booked it many months in advance and it seemed like it would never get here! When the time finally came, it zoomed by very quickly! We had a wonderful time and experienced a part of the world we never thought we’d see!

We were onboard the Regent Seven Seas Mariner

Regent Seven Seas Mariner

Click here to read more about this great cruise!

Hawaii!

We continued our ‘post-covid’ travel with a wonderful trip to Hawaii. We cruised on the Sapphire Princess. The cruise was round-trip from Los Angeles, which we love because we can start our vacation without the hassle of airports or pre-cruise hotels.

Here we are with the Nakalele Blow Hole behind us – on Maui

We really had a relaxing time – spending time exploring some of our favorite areas of the islands and even were able to visit with friends on Oahu – Whitney and Richard Hyde – who also were kind enough to take us to our rental car before we joined them for a relaxing and fun breakfast ‘catch up’ session where we learned all about their fun appearance on “Family Feud!”

Instead of a ‘traditional’ blog post – we decided to create a highlights video (although it’s actually a little over 5 minutes long).

Here’s a link to that post!

Post-COVID – finally able to cruise again!

June 2022 – North to Alaska!

The gang at the George Inlet Sign – thank you to the nice people that took it for us!

We boarded the Majestic Princess and took a wonderful cruise to Alaska. It was very nice to be able to travel again after all we went through with the COVID-19 lock-downs. Things are still not 100% back to normal in the travel world, but it felt really good to travel!

We had to show proof of vaccines and proof of negative COVID tests – and while on the ship we were asked to wear our masks indoors – but it was still an awesome trip!

Our cruise was even better because we were joined by our wonderful friends David and Cindy from Las Vegas! We met while on the same bowling team – but a couple of years ago they moved to Vegas. It was a blast to catch up with them and have this adventure together.

Read more about it here!

Family adventure: Adriadic & Aegean Medley 2019

We had a wonderful opportunity to travel to the Mediteranian with family and a family friend during the summer of 2019.  Adam and I (Susan), had the pleasure of being joined by:

  • Adam’s parents: Art and Cheryl Carpet,
  • Adam’s sister and husband: Bonnie and Steve Parrish,
  • and a dear family friend: Murray Hill.

We had been planning the trip for nearly 2 years, and it involved a 15 day Princess cruise (actually 2 back-to-back cruises) and extra time in Europe for all of us with variations.

Check out more about it here!

Our latest adventure!

We just arrived home from an amazing cruise in the Baltic Sea.  We spent time in countries like Sweden, Russia, Amsterdam and Estonia.  We cruised on a new cruiseline for us – Regent Seven Seas.  We had an amazing time.  If you want to see more of our adventure, and some of the bazillion photos we took – click on the pull-down above titled “Cruises and Trips – Photo-blogs” and it should be the top selection “Baltic Sea 2016.”

In front of the "Church of the spilled blood"

In front of the “Church of the spilled blood” in Russia

We recently noticed that our format doesn’t look the same on all devices – if the pull downs don’t work – here’s a direct link to the section about our Baltic Cruise – we hope you enjoy it!

Travel blog

We love to travel – hope you enjoy our adventures!

We are so very blessed to be able to travel to interesting and exotic places on this big blue marble.  We often are asked to share photos or information about these places, so we thought we’d create a Travel Blog – once in a while we toss in other goofiness that is going on in our lives.

To view our trips/cruises and travel just click above in the “Cruises and Trips Photo Blogs” pull-down and choose one of our adventures!  Some of them are still ‘under construction – but most of them are complete – we hope you enjoy and we’d love feedback or comments if you have them!

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Fun Day!

We had a fun day today. We went to the coast with Art & Cheryl and looked at some houses. On the way we stopped at Topper’s Pizza. It was great!

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We enjoyed a great view too!

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Then we went and looked at some houses. They were nice but no decisions just yet!