Packing to live somewhere else for 6 months feels a bit like moving. When I travel, I always have the best intentions to pack a simple, capsule wardrobe with basic necessities. In fact, I tend to pride myself on efficiency in packing, finding multi-purpose in items, and knowing I can always do laundry to save…
Continue reading →There is all kinds of advice out there about what to pack when you travel, and I am not suggesting that my way is the right way….it’s just mine. Everyone has their favorite shirt/dress/sweater/jacket/accessory that they just cannot leave home without. But, here are a few of my pared down tried-and-true items that go with…
Continue reading →At about halfway through the trip, after all the long pre-departure angst of guessing, shopping, packing, and planning for everything it takes to live on a ship and sightsee in a variety of distant foreign lands for 109 days, I find that all the preparation has actually paid off pretty well. I’ve worn almost all…
Continue reading →Bags packed……check. At the airport……check. Passed security…..check. Waiting to board…..
Continue reading →Shoes. That’s what really separates the men from the women. And we girls love them….shoes, that is. The travel experts advise taking a maximum of three pairs of shoes on any trip. One for walking, a pair of sandals for warm weather, and a pair of reasonable dress shoes, whatever that means. That’s like being forced…
Continue reading →We just received our final travel documents…again. We still have the documents from the original six-month version of our trip that were already in the mail at the time it was cancelled. This new official document is actually more of a book, about 120 pages spiral bound. It is the bible for our cruise, tailored…
Continue reading →We were supposed to be in the southern hemisphere this winter, when it is summer there. South America, Africa, Seychelles. Well, that part of the cruise was cancelled and we couldn’t quite get over it. Our calendar was totally empty and we just got back our refunded money that was already spent in our minds. So…
Continue reading →We have been preparing for this voyage since June of 2013 and one would think we would have it all done by now. The amount of work it takes to get there is massive and we are now in the final crunch. Every detail of our life must be arranged in advance to function in…
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