40+ years of working long hours was worth every second given that it led to this phenomenal retirement experience for both Mike and I. We have just got back from a drive in the mountains. As I write this Mike is dozing in his lounging chair with our recorded music …
We had a busier day than normal planned, with a lot of driving around in the car to different sites and villages. …
This is our first day in Transylvania and we are staying in a fairly rural, but not remote, area. It isn’t uncommon …
As I write this, Mike and I are once again driving in our RV. We have just left our first campground in …
After seven days we are leaving the campground in Harkány which is half an hour south of Pécs, one of the larger …
First let me start by saying the Mike and I love our electric bikes!!! Most of the kinks have been worked out, …
For those that aren’t interested in electric bikes you can skip this long article. I plan on covering the two main variations …
Mike and I are still in the Lake Balaton area. We are now in a campground on the north side of the …
Lake Balaton, also known as the “Hungarian Sea”, is a huge tourist resort area. It is a couple of hours drive from …
It is Friday afternoon and Mike and I are driving away from Budapest and I feel awful. Our very generous hosts where …
Back to our second home again! We left Canada 10 days ago. We stopped in London to visit my Aunt who is …
We leave in 1 ½ days and we are not ready. How did the time disappear in the last few weeks. Apologies …
The summary of our trip below was written in November 2017. It is now the beginning of March and we are finally …
Above is our final map of our 2018 journey. The blue blocks are the number of nights we stayed in each location. …
Mike and I have spent the past 10 days racing to Budapest while also doing some running around before leaving our RV …
Our first full day in Krakow started with a city tour bus. It might be the worse city tour that we have …
Mike and I are currently in Warsaw, Poland. We had a few problems finding somewhere to stay as we arrived on October …
I am afraid that Mike and I travelled through Lithuania faster than we wanted to but the weather really wasn’t conducive to …
After Moscow and St. Petersburg Riga was said to be the third most important city in the Russian Empire. It was also …
Well here are Mike and I in Estonia. Not what we expected when I last wrote an entry but luckily, we aren’t …
St. Petersburg WOW!!! The buildings, the churches, the architecture and the art WOW! Mike and I would have really liked three weeks …
Rain, rain and more rain!!! For many hours every day and all night the rain pours down. This has been Helsinki. Until …
From rural Sweden to Stockholm and I haven’t written a word. All together Mike and I have now spent one month in …
Mike and I have left Norway and are now in Sweden. I thought this would be a good time to just …
We have been told that Norwegians are really serious about their rules with hefty punishments for things like drinking and driving, speeding, …
Mike and I are now travelling around the area we most wanted to see this summer – the western coast of Norway …
Bergen is Norway’s 2nd largest city and its wettest city and this year has been their rainiest year in a very long …
When Mike and I stayed in a campground in Oslo we met a few families that were there with their children for …
Preikestolen / Pulpit Rock Climb For 4 or 5 hours yesterday I kept saying to myself “I am a senior citizen. I …
For this entire trip I have been trying to be extra polite, extra friendly and extra rule and law abiding i.e. not …
We had been told to visit the small picturesque town of Risor on our drive through the south. It was quite a …
Let me start by saying that in our first week in Norway we have met a lot of super nice and friendly …
After aiming for Norway this entire trip we have finally crossed the border. Recently Mike has been getting a little restless waiting …
I am writing this in the pouring rain and severe winds in a marina near the small town of Ängelholm. Thanks to …
Mike and I are currently driving from Denmark into Sweden. We will soon be on a large bridge that connects the two …
Castles, Palaces & Gardens Denmark has a lot of fascinating castles and palaces, called “slots” and many of them seem to have …
Happy Birthday Mum! Hopefully you think a surprise visit home by Mike and I is a good birthday present. To ours friends, …
Mike and I have seen many very different sites over the last few days. We spent a great day at the Egeskov …
Instead of talking about what we have seen and what we have been doing I thought that I would dedicate this blog …
Northern Denmark – Mike and I are currently in Skagen which is the northernmost town in Denmark. Skagen is the most “touristy” …
We have visited various Danish attractions in the last few days. We spent some time in Ribe which is Denmark’s oldest town. It …
It’s been a few days since I posted a note so this one might jump around a little. My apologies if the …
Mike and I have spent the last two weeks in northern Germany. Our thanks go to Clemens, our friend from Hamburg, for …
Hamburg Miniature Wonderland Wow, it is no wonder that this Miniature Wonderland is considered Hamburg’s number one tourist attraction. It is said …
It has been almost a week since we left Mike’s family in Holland. I feel like we have really started our …
Antwerpen, Belgium: It worked. The shipping company got our motorhome and our car from Halifax to Antwerpen. Our agents in Antwerpen had …
A very strange beginning to our trip. Our plane was due to leave Toronto for Reykjavik at 7pm Sunday night. When I …
Tuesday March 28, 2017: First the good, no the great news, Mike and I are in the RV enroute to Halifax to …
Click for Google Maps. Interact with our route and our campsites. Note: If you cannot click on the line above, click once …
Mike and I have spent the last week traveling through the northern US: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and now upper New York …
Mike and I spent almost two weeks on the island of Cape Breton. What a glorious time of year (ignoring hurricanes!). The …
October 22, 1976 to October 22, 2016. A happy 40th anniversary to my best friend and husband. My love and my thanks …
Mike and I left Newfoundland a little quicker than we wanted so that we could get to the Celtic Colours festival in …
Yet again does a hurricane far off-shore affect our trip. The remnants of Hurricane Matthew have given us an extremely “interesting” Thanksgiving. …
I don’t want to write this entry because it means that our time in Newfoundland and Labrador is over for now. Mike …
Slopes and Hills – not great for the Lincoln or the RV. Both the RV and the Lincoln have each run into …
I am sitting here in our RV living room with my feet up in my recliner looking out the window. What is …
We just spent two nights in Cupids and it was super. Everything went great: our camping location, the hospitable people we met …
Mike and I have spent three days so far on the western arm of the Avalon Peninsula. On Monday we drove …
We have just spent 5 days on the Bonavista Peninsula. Other than worrying about running out of propane we had a super …
This entry is just a quick test to see how a very wide panorama photo works. If you click on the photo …
We have just spent five nights on Fogo Island. It is a barren rock with lots of ocean and a really super …
We arrived on Fogo Island last night along with Environment Canada’s warnings about really strong winds and tying campers down. Apparently Hurricane …
This note was originally going to be titled “Newfoundland: Music Everywhere” but I just realized that Mike and I have spent the …
Newfoundland is amazing. You would expect an important site like Gros Morne to have a lot of good walking trails. What you …
We have just spent almost one month on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and had a great time. Lots of well marked …
SUCCESS! Exactly one month ago today (note: this was written a week ago) Mike diagnosed a problem in Labrador City with our …
We are having a great time in Gros Morne and went on a superb boat ride tonight. We weren’t sure that it …
Mike and I are staying in the northern section of Gros Morne National Park for a few days. We will then move …
Nowhere in Newfoundland and Labrador have we seen houses and decorations in the somewhat dull earth tones that we see in Southern …
This website started because whenever Mike and I traveled I would send letters home. Friends started asking for me to copy them …
Have a look at the pictures here. They all have one thing in common, a door that leads to nowhere. Well in …
We are at the tip of the Northern Peninsula in L’Anse aux Meadows, home of the historic Viking settlement. After two days …
We have spent the last day and a half around St. Anthony in the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland and we are having …
Here is our final entry for Labrador. This was the one area that we planned to visit on this trip where Mike …
Paved roads and intermittent cell phone coverage, my new idea of civilization :-). Some great times and a few not so great …
For more than two weeks now we have been boondocking or, more correctly, dry camping. Boondocking is basically camping without services such …
Well our plan to visit Happy Valley – Goose Bay for a couple of days turned into a full week. I am …
This might also be called “A Parcel that has more air miles than I do”. You may remember that we were having …
The good news is that the road between Labrador City and Goose Bay looks to be excellent. They have just finished paving …
This is our last night in Labrador City before we leave on the Trans-Labrador Highway and the unknown. For those that want …
Just a quick note so that no one feels too sorry for us. We have just arrived in Labrador City. The people …
Before we started out this morning Mike took the garbage across the road to a forestry campsite. He encountered a red fox …
After we left Quebec City region we started driving and encontered some of the steepest climbs and descents we have ever had …
Walmart parking lot – what a great place to meet interesting people 🙂 In Quebec City we decided to stay in a …
Mike and I both really like old Quebec so we couldn’t miss a chance of visiting it again. Actually we spent quite …
July 1, Canada Day on Parliament Hill. As we finally arrived in Ottawa it was only right that we spend Canada Day …
We were again heading for Ottawa when we stopped for lunch in Perth. The waitress told us about what they hoped would …
On our last big RV trip one thing we quickly learned was that we missed our boat. It seemed like every campground …
When we purchased our RV one of the marketing features was that our model had the largest single windscreen in the industry. …
For those friends that we haven’t seen recently here is a quick update of the major changes Mike and I have seen …
Was our trip great – absolutely it was phenomenal! Mike and I had a really, really super time and neither of us …
Now our trip is basically about getting home via a scenic drive around the southern side of Lake Erie. We intended to …
I am writing this sitting on one very sore, probably black and blue bum. Mike and I drove to the Cuyahoga Valley …
Mike and I left St. Louis Missouri and then drove through Indiana enroute to Cleveland Ohio. Somewhere we went from central to …
Missouri doesn’t score really high marks for its uniqueness of town names. The other night we stayed in Lebanon. We have either …
We left the current capital of Oklahoma for the original historic capital Guthrie. The creation and settlement of Guthrie occurred in less …
