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When Jay was a young man, his idea of how much stuff one should have should be measured by how much you could get into a VW bus. And while he never really met that goal there were times when … Continue reading →

In our April 18th posting, “Thoughts on Travel”, we noted that we had been on the road almost constantly for the last 17 months. We also wrote that we were looking forward to spending the summer in Wiesbaden and looking … Continue reading →

As of mid-April, 2018 Jay and Tanya have been traveling nearly non-stop for the last 17 months. For some professionals, touring musicians and global consultants come to mind, this is quite normal. And for us, this has become fairly normal … Continue reading →

Very early in our life of travel, we had the vague idea that Bermuda was part of the Caribbean. We knew it was a tropical-like island and its name just sounded like it should be Caribbean, like Barbados, Barbuda or … Continue reading →

Lest our readers get the impression that Tanya and Jay just keep having one exciting adventure after another on this sometimes ridiculous four-month voyage, we’d like to bring you back to earth. Some travel days and destinations simply lend themselves … Continue reading →

Tanya and Jay may not necessarily be in the middle of nowhere, but we’re pretty darn close. Four days of sailing in the North Pacific and 2,000 miles west of Hawaii, we finally made landfall in Majuro, Marshall Islands. Spending … Continue reading →

Tanya and Jay spent Wednesday kicking around the Kilauea volcano on the big island of Hawaii. Naturally, we expected a major eruption to occur right under our feet and we were hoping we could be rushing for shelter as fire, … Continue reading →

One of our readers suggested we post a description of what it’s like to spend 125 days on a ship sailing around the world. So far we’ve been aboard the Amsterdam for just under one month and here are our … Continue reading →

We spent a day last week transiting the Panama Canal again, this time from the Atlantic side to the Pacific. The other day in the chow line, we chatted with a lady who was incredulous that we would be going … Continue reading →