My Travels Around The World
May 2026
Day 1: A Fertility Temple on our way to Punakha
This entry is for Sunday, May 24. We didn’t have great sleep and gave up about 4am. We had coffee in the room and caught [...]
Departure: San Francisco to Thimphu
This entry starts Thursday, May 21. ———— Whenever we are in San Francisco, we have a standing 5:30am coffee date with some friends. We got [...]
2026 Bhutan & Delhi: Pre-Departure
Tomorrow, Thursday, May 21. 2026, we start a 16 day adventure, most of it with National Geographic. We first booked this tour shortly after we [...]
March 2026
New House: Before & After
Warning: if you follow me for travel blogs but are not interested in a house remodel, feel free to move on. This is for [...]
January 2026
Day 12: The Way Home & Final Thoughts
We were up just after 5am as usual despite being up after midnight for what Guinness has now dubbed the biggest New Year’s Eve celebration [...]
Religion, Homosexuality, & Alcoholism
Are you scared? You should be. I was :)
Retreat
Where introverts get their energy. Can't really imagine going with someone else. 4 massages 5 books water eat well. hiking abundance not just finances. also [...]
On Metaphysics
Emmet Fox, Earnest Holmes, the Buddha and what was that book I read in the mid90's - Christ and the Essenes?
December 2025
Day 11: New Year’s Eve in Rio
Rio has a city population of about 6 million and about 13 million in the metro area. They are estimating that 3 million people will [...]
Day 10: Rio, Part 2 – history tour
I slept until about 5am and Ash was up soon after. The photos above are sunrise at 5:11 and 5:42. We went for a walk [...]
Day 9: Rio de Janeiro, Part 1 – Copacabana, and a food tour
We landed in Rio a little after 6am, Monday, December 29. Our original plan was we were going to hang out in an airport lounge [...]
Day 8: Out of the Amazon
This is for Sunday, December 28. Today is mostly a travel day. We got off the boat about 8:30 AM and got on a bus [...]
Day 7: The last river ride; Dolphins (finally)
Today, Saturday, December 27, 2025, is our last day on the boat. We had decided last night that we would do the 6 AM skiff [...]
Day 6: “I don’t like spiders and snakes…”
Do you remember that song? Jim Stafford. If you’re under 50 you’ve maybe never heard it. Anyway, it came into my head on our walk [...]
Day 5, Christmas Day: The Amazon River, San Francisco (a local community)
Each night when we get back to our room after dinner, we are greeted with these little pamphlet. They provide a history of some kind [...]
Day 4: Frogs, Macaws, and a Sloth
This entry is for Wednesday, December 24, 2025. I woke up naturally at 4 AM and enjoyed my quiet coffee time as I had in [...]
Day 3: Birds, Monkeys, & Sloths!
I was up before 4am as normal. I felt rested and was happy to go up for coffee and have the deck to myself. By [...]
Day 2, Part 2: Incredible Sightings
And primarily what I mean by incredible sightings is not necessarily the things we saw, although that is certainly part of it, but that the [...]
Day 2: It’s a whole other world
This entry is for Monday, December 22. I am going to do something unprecedented and post halfway through the day.  I realized during the [...]
Day 1: Into the Amazon
It look us the better part of 2 days to get into the Amazon, but here we are. You last saw us as we were [...]
2025 Amazon River Cruise – Departure
In 2024 we did a Galapagos tour with National Geographic which we absolutely loved. At the end of that tour they announced: if you book [...]
November 2025
Paris 2025: The way home; Final Thoughts
I am a week behind on this post, but not without good reason. Will explain all of that at the end. We left Paris on [...]
October 2025
Day 5: Bastille
Today we had left open intentionally so that the folks new to Paris could repeat things or do things on their own or do nothing [...]
Day 4: Versailles, Seine River Night Cruise
Ash went to the bakery to get more goodies for breakfast. Everyone was up and ready to go for our 8am departure after food and [...]
Day 3: d’Orsay Museum, Montmartre
Everyone got decent sleep and was up and ready to go early. Ash, Mark, Sherry and I went out about 7am to walk Zeus and [...]
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