We spent several hours at Plitvice Jezera National Park in Croatia today. 16 lakes connected by hundreds of waterfalls and it is one of the most awesome National Parks in Europe. We had great weather and because we are in “shoulder” season, the crowds weren’t nearly as bad. We hiked for 6 miles to see…
Rovinj, Croatia
Because of the limited bus schedules we were forced to only stay 2 days in Ljubljana but that means we got 4 days in Rovinj instead of 3. This worked out well. We were anxious to get to the Adriatic Sea after spending a few weeks inland. M thought that this place reminded here of…
Rainy Times in Ljubljana, Slovenia
We had planned 3 nights in Slovenia after leaving the capitol of Croatia- Zagreb. Unfortunately, we are now in offseason bus and train schedules and we couldn’t get a bus or train to our next destination on Wednesday, so we would have to leave Tuesday and only have 2 nights in Ljubljana Slovenia. Our Train…
Zagreb, Croatia
The day before leaving Budapest, I started not feeling so well. Just a little cold, but I needed to take it easy for a few days to get better. M also got it a couple of days later… But, we only had 3 nights in Zagreb so we were worried we wouldn’t get the total…
Budapest, Hungary
We are still getting used to the idea of slowing down our travel. We are used to doing 3-4 attractions in a day so we can say that we have “seen” a city in 2 or 3 days. We had 7 nights in Budapest so we changed that to 1-2 attractions in a day which…
Things I have seen that are…. different…
I often laugh at stupid things that I see in other countries that just seem a little weird. I have started taking pics of some of those things and maybe sharing them here is a good idea… Or maybe not Yesterday we visited an underground hospital that was used to treat people during the siege…
Vienna, Austria
Vienna is our first stop on our long fall Europe trip. We had a week here, so we were able to take our time seeing the sites and getting over jetlag. Usually, jetlag doesn’t bother me, but this time I had a hard time sleeping when I am supposed to be sleeping, and staying awake…
Bratislava, Slovakia
We have been in Vienna for a few days and I have a lot of pics to share but we aren’t done with Vienna yet. Yesterday we took a day trip to Bratislava and that needs to be shared now, even though my blog posting might be out of order. We took a 1 hour…
Travel Planning- Our Way
We have friends that often ask us how we are comfortable to be traveling internationally and doing all the planning by ourselves. We never use travel agents and generally don’t like group planned tours. M has done a couple of Rick Steves tours and she liked the social aspect of traveling with different people but…
Why did we retire to the city?
M and I grew up in the suburbs and lived most of our adult lives in suburbs. We thought that was the thing to do. Raise kids in the suburbs was the expectation. Good schools, playing in the neighborhood, sports, scouts, and all the kids activities seemed like it was the way to go. But…
Home Free or Homeless
I haven’t written much lately because it feels like that we haven’t done much lately… but that isn’t true. We have done a lot. Maybe because we haven’t done anything cool or significant lately… but that isn’t true either. Looking through my phone I found a lot of cool pics so I can share those…
Ride down the Coast in May?
I have been wanting to try bike touring for years and we had a few open weeks this month so decided to give it a shot. I have done Seattle to Portland, and Seattle to Vancouver but both of those were just 2 day trips. M had no interest in being on a bike that…
Yelapa- The Isolated Mexican Beach Town
The last stop on our 2022 Mexico tour was 4 nights in the small beach town of Yelapa. We had been going full bore tourist mode during our few days in Mexico City so we wanted a few days to do nothing before we went home to Beacon Hill – Seattle. Yelapa does not have…
Mexico City needs a long visit
The 2nd biggest city in the America’s (after San Paolo) is huge. We have been to Mexico many times and never took the time to visit it’s most important city. We stayed 5 nights but needed a bit more. Tons of great museums, art and things to do. There are over 150 museums. It might…
Guanajuato and San Miguel De Allende
Most of our experiences in visiting Mexico over the last 30 years has been beaches. That is probably the case with most Gringos. We gringos stay for a week in Cancun, Mazatlan, Ixtapa, Cabo or Puerta Vallarta and don’t see much of the real Mexico except for going to a taco stand on the “other”…