Madeira, Portugal
Our trek from Mérida, Mexico started on the last day of April and took us to the Portuguese island of Madeira via the airports of Mexico City, Paris, and Lisbon. The trip was long and the jet lag lingered for…
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Mérida, Mexico: Apr 2026
After spending a couple of weeks in San Miguel de Allende, we flew to Mérida where we stayed for a month. On our way to Mérida we missed our flight connection in Mexico City and arrived late into Mérida without…
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico: Mar 2026
After a month on Maui we headed for Mexico to San Miguel de Allende (SMdA) to spend two weeks. We met up with Susan’s sister there and did some tours, including historical walking tours of the UNESCO designated Centro neighborhood,…
Maui, Hawaii: Feb – Mar 2026
After departing Medellin, Colombia we made our way to Maui, Hawaii where we stayed for a month. We have been going to Maui every year in February for the last 15 years so this was a bit of a welcome…
Medellín, Colombia: Jan – Feb 2026
In mid January we flew from Montevideo, Uruguay to Medellín, Columbia where we stayed for one month. Medellín’s nickname is ” The City of Eternal Spring”, due to its constant year-round Spring season temperatures and weather conditions. Prior to our…
Montevideo, Uruguay: Jan 2026
Happy New Year to you! After spending the holidays in Buenos Aires (BA) we took a ferry across the Rio de la Plata to Uruguay where we stayed for eight nights in the capital city of Montevideo. Since the two…
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Dec 2025 – Jan 2026
We arrived in Buenos Aires on December 6th and settled into our Air BnB apartment for a month, including Christmas and the New Year. We were amazed at how much it felt like a European city. Our Air BnB was…
Cruise from Lisbon to Buenos Aires: Nov-Dec 2025
We departed Europe via a cruise ship, the Celebrity Equinox, out of Lisbon, Portugal for a one-way Trans-Atlantic crossing (“repositioning cruise”) to South America. We had figured out that the cost was about the same as flying and we could…
Porto and Lisbon Portugal: Nov 2025
We flew from Malta to Porto, Portugal in mid November to connect with friends coming off of a river cruise. The four of us stayed in an Air BnB in the heart of Porto and explored the city and surrounding…
Malta: Oct – Nov 2025
We flew from Athens to the small island nation of Malta in mid October, where we stayed for just over a month. Given that we had just moved 9 times in 7 weeks, we were ready to settle in a…