My Travels Around The World
December 2025
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 […]
Day 2: A failed Louvre attempt; Grande Arche & Champs Elysees
This entry is for Monday, October 20, 2025. The gang had mixed sleep results Sunday night, with jet lag hitting some worse than others. But […]
Day 1: Walking Paris
This is for Sunday, October 19, 2025. Ash and I left around 7:20am to take the van back to the airport rental center. No problems […]
2025 Paris: Departure, Monet’s Gardens
We tend to plan travel a year in advance, and by this time in 2024 we already had the Africa trip planned, which we did […]
August 2025
2025 Africa: The Way Home; Final Thoughts
We skipped the safari activity this morning because it would have been too hectic to do a shortened version of that, then finish packing and […]
July 2025
Day 10: Okavango Delta, Part 3
This entry is for Thursday, July 31, 2025. It is a bit after Noon as I sit here with this view to write about the […]
Day 9: Okavango Delta, Part 2
This is for Wednesday, July 30, 2025. It’s 12:20pm as I start on the first half of the day. This is my view at the […]
Day 8: Okavango Delta, Part 1
This post is for Tuesday, July 29, 2025. We are at Moremi Crossing. They have added technology since we were here in June 2023. We […]
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