Sixtysomething-year-old newlyweds travelling the world together – Adventure Awaits!
NOTE: As of February 22, 2025 when Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb and current board member of Airbnb joined the DOGE effort in support of fascist and authoritarian president Donald J. Trump, I no longer use or endorse Airbnb. Henceforth, I will use VRBO for short term rentals. In our travels in the U.S. and … Continue reading Lessons Learned from 72 Airbnb stays
We were fortunate enough to visit several of Australia’s great cities in our six weeks in the country, including Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Sydney is the most famous of the three, with its iconic opera house and bay bridge, Melbourne is known for a great coffee culture and its livability, being ranked as the world’s … Continue reading A Tale of Three Cities: Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide
John and I enjoy coffee but we are not coffee snobs. We rarely go to coffee shops and when we lived at home, back before we sold our house and most of our worldly goods, we bought good coffee beans, ground them daily, and made a pot of regular ol’ brewed coffee. When we were … Continue reading Drinking Coffee in Australia
Australia’s Great Ocean Road goes south from Melbourne, starting at Torquay (pronounced Tor-key) and goes on for 243 kilometers/150 miles, ending somewhere around Port Fairy or Portland, depending on who you ask. Many people drive it in just a day or two or, worse yet, get on a tourist bus to see a few sights, … Continue reading Australia’s Great Ocean Road
Our Christmas was spent in the tropical north of Australia, Daintree National Park, to be specific. For John and me, having lived in the deep south of the United States all of our lives, warm Christmases are not that unusual, so a Christmas spent in shorts is no big deal. Daintree, however, is different … Continue reading I’m dreaming of a tropical Christmas
You and Me, Odyssey 