The Algarve is the southern part of Portugal and is famous for its beautiful coastline. We stayed in the town of Portimao which is just East of the bigger town of Lagos. There is a stretch of condos and restaurants on top of the cliffs that are popular with Europeans as a vacation spot. The…
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Basque Country with Paul and Kara
Yep, it isn’t just the 2 of us for a couple of weeks. We are 4 once again – Meg’s brother Paul, and his Spain-loving wife Kara, are joining us for a couple of weeks exploring the Basque Region of Northern Spain. We really like traveling with people and were excited that they wanted to…
Our new favorite Spanish town- Castro Urdiales
The more we travel, the more that we are drawn to smaller towns. We have been to a lot of Spanish cities and have enjoyed them all, but we have missed out on a lot of the smaller towns. Now is the time that we are becoming more focused on the out of the way…
Mayne Island, British Columbia, Canada
We spend most of the year on the road but return every summer to the Pacific Northwest to visit friends and family. Just because we are retired and have the whole summer free, doesn’t mean that our whole family is free as well. Our sons are busy with jobs, girlfriends, and navigating early adulthood, so…
Biking the Oregon Coast- Part 2
In May of 2022, we were newly retired and waiting for our new house to be finished. We were eager to start our nomad traveling life but couldn’t leave the country because of the delays going on with our house build. So, we decided to do something I have wanted to do for a long…
Just Like Bath Water??
We have all heard the water temperature of tropical beaches described as “Just Like Bath Water”. But I don’t really know what that means. How hot is bath water? How hot are the beaches? How hot does the water have to be before I will swim? What places in the world have the best water…
Corfu, Greece- Last Stop before Seattle
M likes to spend our last week before returning home at a lazy beach location. It doesn’t always work out but it was perfect for this trip. This trip through Eastern Europe did not have many beaches but the last couple of weeks has made up for that. Our week in Sarande, Albania was great…
The Albanian Riviera
I am not sure why so many countries get to have their own “Riviera”, but Albania has one too. The beaches are mostly as good as many of those that we have seen in other Rivieras. We stayed for a week on the beach in the center of the town of Saranda, Albania, and didn’t…
Finding the sun in Fethiye, Turkiye
One of our goals in our nomadic lifestyle is to avoid bad weather. We work at planning our travels so we can avoid wearing long pants, or even worse…. Socks!!! I enjoy living in shorts, T shirts and sandals most of the year. We also enjoy looking at the weather back in Seattle once in…
Is Koh Mak our Favorite Thai Island?
We have now stayed over a week on 6 different islands in Thailand, over the past two years. We have liked them all for different reasons and I will try to sort that out a bit in this post. First, I need to explain Koh Mak. This is a place for deserted beaches. The island…
Malapascua Island, Philippines
I’m not sure why it took us this long to the to the Philippines. We have heard so many good stories from our Filipino friends as well as other travelers. We lived for a few years in Beacon Hill which is the heart of the Filipino community in Seattle. We are definitely familiar with Filipino…
Isla Holbox, Mexico
If you have followed our travels, you know that we keep coming to some relatively remote beach locations. I love the idea of a tropical island where there are no cars and there is nothing much to do except hang out on a beach. We have been to many different islands and towns in many…
Stoupa, Greece – Our new favorite European beach town
If you saw my post last week about Sardinia, I was complaining that we didn’t quite match with the beach town of Olbia. It wasn’t what we were looking for in a relaxing beach week. I felt a little bad for complaining so much, so now I need to write a blog post praising a…
Sardinia- not as planned
We have been in France for over a month, and our feet haven’t set foot in a swimming pool or on a beach. We knew would be ready for a beach week and set aside 5 days in Olbia, Sardinia for some beach relaxation time. We took a ferry from Corsica and found a bus…
Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
Our first stop in the Galapagos is the most populated island Santa Cruz and we stayed in the biggest town Puerto Ayora. Santa Cruz is bigger than the island of Maui but it still only has 20,000 fulltime inhabitants. Many people that visit the Galapagos do it on a liveaboard small cruise ship (usually about…