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AUSTRALIA | Sun, 22 Jun 2025 | By countryboy | Views [28863] | Comments [2]
Welcome back. Nice not to be dead, isn’t it? I’m here. You’re here. This is good.
It’s been a while.
A looooong while.
First up, apologies if the ‘dead’ comment was triggering. Did we even have the word ‘... Read more >
Tags: ai, artificial intelligence, checking in, hi, substack, writing
COSTA RICA | Wed, 5 Mar 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [29876]
OUR SPIRITS NEEDED A JOLT OF COSTA RICAN Pura Vita before returning to the sturm und drang of the USA and a condo in the beach town of Jaco was just the ticket. This is our fourth visit to Costa Rica, we’ve already covered most of the country ... Read more >
USA | Fri, 16 May 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [29153]
IT SHOULDN’T HAVE COME AS A SHOCK—there have been only two or three of us posting in the past year—but World Nomads seems to have stopped supporting photos on this site. And what’s a travel blog without pictures?
... Read more >
USA | Sun, 6 Apr 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [29097]
AFTER TWO WEEKS OF SLOTH ON FLORIDA’S Turquoise Coast we’re back on our Grand Tour. This leg took us through Alabama and Mississippi to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. After our 8-hour journey from Pine Island to Destin, the two-hour ... Read more >
USA | Fri, 11 Apr 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [29031]
NO TRIP TO THE HOUSTON AREA would be complete without a visit to Sabine Woods Audubon Sanctuary—at least for birders like us. Yes, we know we’re here too soon for the Spring migration but we’re hoping to see a few of those famous Early ... Read more >
AUSTRALIA | Wed, 23 Jul 2025 | By countryboy | Views [28524]
Right. Where were we?
I alerted everyone to the world-altering news that I had written a parody of a certain tally-ho pilot from last century and that I was starting to post it – in chapters – on a thing called Substack.
Then my 87-... Read more >
Tags: delay, femur, goggles, hospitals, parent, rehab
NEW ZEALAND | Thu, 13 Mar 2025 | By nomad_kiwis | Views [24510]
It seems like only months ago we ended our Mediterranean cruise but it has been well over a year!
At the end of 2023 I joined with other Ulysses members to ride the length of New Zealand raising funds to help those who continue to suffer from the ... Read more >
USA | Mon, 10 Mar 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [24335]
IT’S BEEN TWO AND A HALF YEARS since Hurricane Ian crashed through Fort Myers and just a single lane on the only bridge connecting Pine Island to the mainland is open. On-going construction regularly stops traffic dead. Businesses along Pine Island ... Read more >
PANAMA | Fri, 21 Feb 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [12139]
OF PANAMA’S ROUGHLY ONE THOUSAND BIRDS, seven are found only in Panama. With our previous birding birding trips in nearby Columbia we had already seen all but 90 of the species. No, problem, though. This trip was not jus about birds—it was ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 26 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [195]
The temperature was forecast to never get much above freezing so we bundled up for the walk to Earl’s Court Underground station. Thirty minutes later we were at Russell Square with only a short walk to the British Museum.
The Museum ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tue, 25 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [178]
The Eurostar “Chunnel” train from Paris to London may cost a bit more than flying but it is much more civilized. We cleared both EU and UK immigration at Gare du Lyon in Paris, carried our own luggage onto the train and were in London in ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 29 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [137]
It rained hard on Thursday and Saturday’s forecast isn’t much better. Today would be the best day for birding at Stodmarsh National Nature Reserve. It took us a half-hour for he eight-mile drive on England’s narrow, winding ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sun, 30 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [128]
When Henry VIII wasn’t busy tearing down churches, monasteries and abbeys or doing away with excess-to-needs wives, he indulged his paranoia by building castles. Actually more like fortresses, some 30 “castles” were constructed as part ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tue, 23 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [122]
The Galapagos Islands is the laboratory where Charles Darwin began developing his theory of evolution in 1835 . It took him more than 20 years of mulling, prodding from geologist Charles Lyell and botanist Joseph Hooker and competition from Alfred Russel ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thu, 23 Oct 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [122]
When we began our travels a couple of decades ago, we had to rely on guidebooks like “Lonely Planet” and Rick Steves. Now the internet is chock-a-block with tips and destinations for independent travelers. Much of it is shamelessly ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sun, 16 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [118]
I had almost forgotten our 2015 “drive by” visit to Citadel in Besançon. This time we’ll stay for a few days, if only to break up the six-hour drive from Lyon to Strasbourg. Traffic and parking being what they are, we decided ... Read more >
FRANCE | Thu, 13 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [107]
Around 910, William I, Duke of Aquitaine “The Pious” founded the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny with the “no strings” donation of his hunting preserve. The monastery would be free from any future obligations to him and his ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sat, 13 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [107]
Despite English Heritage sites going back in time from castles, priories and monasteries to Roman villas and even Neolithic sites, John’s favorite site opened for business in 1939. Its existence wasn’t known to the general public until 1970 ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sat, 22 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [107]
Connie had had a list of places in Metz that she wanted to visit, most important and—as it turned out—the most impressive Metz Cathedral and Musée de la Coeur d’Or. I picked our AirBnB less on location and price but because it ... Read more >
FRANCE | Wed, 22 Oct 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [106]
Saint-Congard is less than an hour from Josselin but as the French say, “Vivre la difference.” Our AirBnB is in a four-hundred year old farmhouse, 20 minutes from the nearest grocery store. Michel and Blandine met us at the door, speaking ... Read more >
FRANCE | Wed, 19 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [105]
We considered returning to Colmar today—the sun was shining and we wanted to see our favorite town in its glory. When we realized that Colmar’s neighbor, Eguisheim, was on the list of “Les Plus Beaux Villages de France,” we re-... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Wed, 17 Dec 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [104]
We finished our Christmas letter—even checked it twice—and (e)mailed it off to all of the good little boy and girls. If you didn’t get yours, try to be nicer next year. When we still felt that we needed a little Christmas—right ... Read more >
FRANCE | Fri, 31 Oct 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [104]
Whether to visit Chambord or Chenonceau, that was the question. Both were top picks on Rick Steves’ recommended list. Château de Chenonceau was described as the “toast of the Loire.” On the other hand, Château Chambord ... Read more >
FRANCE | Wed, 5 Nov 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [104]
Bordeaux and wine have been an item since Roman times but after Bordeaux wine was served at the wedding of Henry Plantagenet, future King Henry II, and Eleanor of Aquitaine it became the plonk of royalty. When Richard the Lionhearted proclaimed it his ... Read more >
FRANCE | Sun, 26 Oct 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [99]
Chinon is on the Vienne, a tributary of the Loire, but it makes a good base to see some of the chateaux and quaint villages long the “Valley of 1000 Chateaux.” The actual number of castles along the Loire is closer to three hundred, and not ... Read more >