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Fri, 11 Apr 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [292]
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 >
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [284]
WE AGREED TO MEET AT SUNNYSIDE on the Hudson River near Tarrytown NY. Jenny, Matt and son Ryan came down from Connecticut, Debra from nearby White Plains and we came across from North Jersey. Debra and Jenny are “John One’s” nieces ... Read more >
Sat, 6 Jul 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [258]
IT HAS BEEN NEARLY 15 YEARS since we visited Colorado ski country—each year we promise to make the trip but keep putting it off. But Houstonian friends Greg and Laura were in town on grandparent duty and a day in the mountains seemed like a good ... Read more >
Mon, 9 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [251]
SEEING RELATIVES IS ONLY PART of the plan on our Grand Tour and when it comes to Connie’s family there is still much to be discovered. Now that Ron, the family genealogist, is hors de combat we have to go to the horse’s mouth for the stories.... Read more >
Thu, 24 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [245]
WE VAGABONDS HAVE TO BE SOMEWHERE; a hotel or hostel, a birding tour or cruise ship. Or an AirBnB in Myrtle Beach SC. It’s a logical stop on the way to Florida, the price is right and we enjoyed our visit in the spring of ’21.
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Thu, 19 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [245]
A GLANCE BACK AT OUR JOURNALS CONFIRMED IT—it’s been twenty-one years to the day since last we were in Southern Vermont. A lot has changed since then and much of what hasn’t isn’t quite like I remember it!
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Mon, 10 Mar 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [244]
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 >
Mon, 16 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [231]
WE SPENT THE NIGHT IN POUGHKEEPSIE in the Hudson Valley with plans to visit FDR’s home in Hyde Park on our way north in the morning. As it turns, out our hotel was just around the corner from Vassar College and we couldn’t resist a stop to ... Read more >
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [230]
WE HAD AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE FOR STOPPING in Virginia. Of course we wanted to see old friends Steve and Roz but we had also arranged to have our South Dakota absentee ballots forwarded to them in Fairfax. This year especially, voting—forgive the expression—... Read more >
Tue, 3 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [230]
CONSIDERING EVERYONE’S AGE, “Farewell Tour” seemed a bit too fatalistic. So “Grand Tour” it is—2½ months and a few thousand miles driving East then South to visit with friends and family. With the schedules ... Read more >
Wed, 6 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [229]
IN THE 50S WHEN SPACE WAS THE NEW FRONTIER, families would gather in front of tiny b&w TVs and anxiously count-down with each new space launch. Today, 65 years later, launches from Cape Canaveral have become ho-hum events—we actually watched ... Read more >
Sat, 3 Aug 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [228]
THEY SIT FROZEN IN TIME, WAITING FOR A TRAIN that has left the station for the last time. A sailor and a soldier ready to ship out. A young girl waiting as Mom buys their tickets. A couple saying good-bye after a 3-day pass. The porter helping a family ... Read more >
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [228]
BERMUDA WASN’T EVEN ON OUR TRAVEL RADAR—resorts on the island are obscenely expensive and the flight schedule is inconvenient. But the idea of sailing from New York, down the Hudson past the Empire State and the Chrysler buildings and Lady ... Read more >
Sun, 6 Apr 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [222]
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 >
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [210]
MYSTIC SEAPORT, MADE SEMI-FAMOUS by the Julia Robert’s film Mystic Pizza, is the largest seaport museum in the US. I often thought of stopping on my way to Boston but never quite made it. Until today.
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Tue, 29 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [209]
EVEN THOUGH IT’S ONLY ABOUT 400 MILES from Myrtle Beach to St. Augustine, we broke up the trip with a stop in Georgia. When we last visited Savannah in ’05—the details are a bit fuzzy in my mind—we seem to recall having a good ... Read more >
Tue, 15 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [206]
THE ORIGINAL PLAN ON OUR WAY SOUTH called for a stop in the Blue Ridge Mountains. but after Hurricane Helene washed out much of Asheville NC, we went to Plan B, a cozy AirBnB cottage in Kill Devil Hills.
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Tue, 8 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [196]
CONNIE, BLESS HER HEART, WAS ON DECK at 4:30 AM when Venezia passed beneath the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and sailed by the Statue of Liberty so the photos from the Hudson were taken with her iPhone. We were packed and breakfasted by half-past eight ... Read more >
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [193]
AFTER FOUR DAYS OF NON-STOP TALKING we needed a break from people—some alone time—before visiting John’s brother Ray in Ohio. A bit of Google mapping and some time on Booking.com got us a room on the shore of Lake Erie in the Lake Point ... Read more >
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [189]
ST. AUGUSTINE IS THE OLDEST CITY in the United States. It is also the last “Friends and Family” stop on this leg of our Grand Tour. John’s sister Jean “Charlotte” and daughter Carli moved down from “Joisey” about ... Read more >
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [188]
WE HAVEN’T EVEN BOARDED THE SHIP and the itinerary has been changed! Yes, we are leaving again, a month aboard Holland America’s Oosterdam, sailing the “long way” to Buenos Aires, through the Panama Canal and around Cape Horn.... Read more >
Fri, 16 May 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Views [183]
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?
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Sun, 9 Mar 2025 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 8 Mar 2025 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 20 Nov 2024 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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