Category: Recap
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Week #49 – 52 ~ Recap
Today marks the end of Week #52. We originally planned to be on the road until now, but back in February when we were planning out May, we realized we were just wasting time until we were able to move back into our house on July 1. So we contacted our renters and they were…
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Week #48 ~ Recap
1,232 driving miles, 1,058 flight miles, two flights, 18 relatives, 2 family friends, 1 metro ride, 1 graduation party, 1 friend moving to the coast, 3 states, $948 OVER budget. We have missed our people and this week was full of reconnecting, telling stories, and hanging out at the tables of relatives and friends. We…
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Week #47 ~ Recap
1322 driving miles, 2 great cities, 12 oysters, 1 national park, 3 roadrunners, 1 javelina, 1 UNESCO World Heritage site, 2 states, 2 hours waiting in line for amazing barbecue, $73.15 OVER budget. What do you do in your next to last travel week of the Big Meander? That is all. Next week; Kansas, a…
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Week #46 ~ Recap
783 miles, 2 states, 1 weekend catch up with dear friends, 2 national parks, 1 museum, 1 National Historic Site, $811 OVER budget. Santa Fe, Carlsbad, Marfa…..in a weird way you could say it was the triad of artistic experiences. Santa Fe is well known for the high desert clarity of light, rich browns and…
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Week #45 ~ Recap
867 miles driving, 3 states, 3 National Parks, 2 hotel rooms, 2 campsites, 3 nights of freezing temperatures, 1 museum, $19.50 under budget. As our friend Susan says, “Geological time includes now”, and this week we got to experience the slow tick of geologic time by witnessing some of the most beautiful results of those…
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Week #44 ~ Recap
2,389 miles, 1 day at sea on the boat, 1 flight, 1 surprise birthday dinner, 2 national parks, 2 states, 1 official circumnavigation of the globe, 3 nights hosted by amazing and generous friends, $564 over budget. Whew! That’s a big week ~ even for us. We were glad to get off the boat and…
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Week #43 ~ Recap
7 more days on the cruise ship, approximately 24 hours of studying for Erin and 100 hours of re-reading “Game of Thrones” for Marla, 4 workouts in the gym, 1 cousins dinner in Honolulu, and approximately 6,000 steps per day going from our room to various activities around the ship. We have no idea how…
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Week #42 ~ Recap
Week #42 saw us transition from “pollywogs” to “shellbacks” as we crossed the Equator and started moving north back back to the United States. There are all kinds of naval traditions that celebrate that transition. Our cruise ship had its own that involved a skit about King Neptune, an assistant cruise director dressed in drag,…
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Week # 41 (and a day) ~ Recap
This was the week we got on The Love Boat (Grand Princess), to begin our final leg toward the States. Auckland was good to us ~ we had a chance to cook in our own kitchen, do some laundry, watch the boats in the harbor, take a winery tour and a hike, have really good…
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Week #40 ~ Recap
1,340 miles, 1 flight, 1 family of four hosting us at their amazing home, 1 ferry ride, 1 apple orchard, 2 wine tastings, 1 koala, 1 harborside AirB&B, 1 kookaburra, 2 beautiful oceanside strolls, 1 haircut, $341.77 UNDER budget. From Adelaide to Auckland, this part of the trip has been A+! Apples, grapes, wine, ocean,…