Through the Kingdom of Neptune

After being at sea between Galveston and San Juan, we were happy to be on land for two days in a row.

I fell in love with St. Thomas, to the point I had Curtis checking out flights for a future trip. This would be a great island to spend a few low-key weeks. Read more →

Planning Our Epic Mediterranean Trip

I went to visit my friend Lois last year. Not too long after I walked in the door I said “I want to take a repositioning cruise!” She said ok and that she also wanted to spend a month on the French Riviera. So began our plan for our Mediterranean trip.

By the time I left her house 5 days later, we had booked a cruise from Texas to Barcelona, an apartment in Barcelona for five days, an apartment in Cassis, France for a month, and our flight home three weeks after that. Over the course of the next few months we added houses and hotels on Sicily, hotels in Rome and London, and planes, trains and automobiles in between.

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