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USA | Sun, 2 Jun 2024 | By rtumicki | Views [182]
332: Time flies when I neglect my journal entries. Now I am down to 332 days and I have a sneaking feeling this time will go by quicker than I think or would like. I have started many to-do lists in various notebooks I keep. One, the ... Read more >
FAROE ISLANDS | Sat, 1 Jun 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [159]
It looks like the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan. Whaling is practiced on a subsistence rather than on a commercial basis here in the Faroe Islands. It's mostly pilot whales and occasionally dolphins that are hunted. Pilot whales aren't listed ... Read more >
UKRAINE | Tue, 23 Jul 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [144]
This may sound like I'm insane, but I'm in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than two years but I've been here two days and you'd never believe that there was a war at all as I stroll around Lviv. Getting through the border was a ... Read more >
USA | Sat, 22 Jun 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [141]
YOU DON’T HAVE TO TRAVEL TO HOLLYWOOD to see the World Premier of a film—you don’t even need to dress up! Yesterday we attended the World Premier of T.REX in 3-D right here at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and not even ... Read more >
USA | Wed, 12 Jun 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [137]
WE HAVE BEEN BACK IN COLORADO FOR exactly a month—and, boy, have we been busy. We got much needed haircuts and retrieved some essentials from storage even before we checked in to our latest AirBnB, our fifth “same-but-different”... Read more >
USA | Sat, 6 Jul 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [130]
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 >
USA | Sun, 15 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [100]
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 >
USA | Mon, 9 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [96]
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 >
USA | Sat, 3 Aug 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [91]
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 >
BERMUDA | Tue, 1 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [82]
AFTER TWO NIGHTS AND A DAY OF SAILING the good ship Venezia docked at the aptly named Dockyards in Bermuda, about 800 “seagull miles” from NYC. While Hurricane Helene was wreaking havoc on the Southeast US, we were barely affected. Seas ... Read more >
USA | Fri, 11 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [80]
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 >
FAROE ISLANDS | Sun, 2 Jun 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [79]
Last night I had a Faroese night, with this morning having woke up with a hangover after a few at the pub and then some at home. It was bucketing down rain this morning so it was a great opportunity for a lie-in. Chivalrous to the last as always, I wouldn't ... Read more >
USA | Mon, 16 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [77]
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 >
USA | Tue, 3 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [76]
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 >
USA | Thu, 24 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [76]
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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NORWAY | Sat, 22 Jun 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [76]
Blue sky awaited me this morning after a bad dream about a friend. After so many days of rain and dark clouds, the sun was shining and it was warm out. Monica made Norwegian waffles this morning. Unlike their Belgian counterparts, they have a soft texture ... Read more >
USA | Thu, 12 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [70]
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 >
KUWAIT | Thu, 10 Oct 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [60]
Numerous travellers before me have described Kuwait as being about the most boring place they've ever travelled to. Would it be? I just had to find out for myself. Only yesterday did my planned CouchSurfing host, Mohammed, cancel on me due to a family ... Read more >
USA | Tue, 15 Oct 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [59]
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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USA | Thu, 19 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [58]
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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USA | Fri, 20 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [58]
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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USA | Fri, 27 Sep 2024 | By graynomadsusa | Views [54]
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 >
FAROE ISLANDS | Thu, 30 May 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [52]
Early I had a gorgeous view as I was ready to take the Faroe Islands by storm (albeit without the storm) and see and do as much as possible within these majestic islands. I had originally hoped to spend two weeks in the Faroes and go to every main island ... Read more >
DENMARK | Mon, 27 May 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [52]
What do a large breed of dog and Hans Christian Andersen have in common? They’re both Great Danes. Last night I arrived in Denmark on a ferry that was basically a floating duty-free shop. Whilst in Germany I used the Deutschland Ticket, in Denmark ... Read more >
FAROE ISLANDS | Wed, 29 May 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [49]
Known locally as Føroyar, the Faroe Islands have just planted a seed in my heart. After travelling to so many places and for so many years, I often wonder if I can still find new places that make my mouth drop in awe. The Faroe Islands did ... Read more >