Our Traveling Adventures

Star Trek the Cruise VIII. Fun times on the ship.

Day 76: Day 76 was Saturday, January 11, 2025, once again. Not the Saturday that we spent at the botanic gardens and the movie in our...

Day 72: Wednesday, January 8 we started our tour of our last non-USA city for our around-the-world-in-81-days trip. I am writing this...

Day 68 (Wellington to Ohakune, 298 km): Saturday morning, we caught an Uber back to the airport to get our rental car. We had a date with...

Day 64: December 31st, New Year’s Eve we flew from Sydney, Australia to Wellington, New Zealand. We arrived in Wellington in the late...

Day 60 (Soldiers Point to Sydney 229 km): We got onto the road by 9:15 AM from our B&B at Soldiers Point. The drive was not particularly...

Day 57 (Brisbane to Ballina, 231 km) Christmas Eve, we left Brisbane around 9:30 AM for our drive to Ballina. We originally thought we...

Day 54 (Mountain Creek to Brisbane, 115 km): Saturday, December 21, we left Kieran and Tammy’s place around 10:30 to head to Brisbane. We...

Day 50 (Magnetic Island to Cape Hillsborough National Park, 390 km): The ferry took us back to Townsville with super fun memories from...

Day 48 (Cairns to Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island, 368 km). We got up at 7:30 in an effort to start getting on the road earlier....

Day 43 (Driving distance Cairns to Port Douglas, 67 km): Tuesday, December 10. We had two flights between day 42 and 43. Day 42 we flew...

Day 37: We arrived in Phuket in the evening around 8 PM. By the time we got our car and hit the road, we were travel weary. We headed to...

Day 34: In our last blog, we had just visited the phantasmagorical Blue Temple. We left around 11 AM to head south for Chiang Mai. Along...

Day 31: This day was mostly travel. We took a flight from Bangkok up to Chiang Rai in the north. Chiang Rai is both a city and a province...

Day 27: We left the Wood Castle Hotel in New Delhi around 7 AM for the airport. Our flight was not until 11:10 AM. Javeed recommended the...

Day 22: We spent the day traveling on Ethiopian Airlines. One oddity about Ethiopian. Every time I picked seats for us, they or their...

Day 20: In our previous blog, we took a quick tour of Livingstone, Zambia on our way to the Livingstone airport. We flew from Zambia back...

Day 17: This blog entry starts a bit…challenging. Keep reading. It gets better. Thursday, November 14th was a travel day. And it was...

Day 15 continued: We left Kings Camp and Timbavati around 11 AM on November 12 for our 90-minute ride to Hazyview. It was a cloudy and...

Day 12: We spent three of the best days and nights of our lives in and around Kings Camp in the Timbavati Wildlife Park  in northeastern...