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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
After six nights in Montenegro, we flew to Athens where we spent a week. We spent three days of that with some friends who were passing through enroute to join their cruise ship. We stayed in a hotel smack in…
After a week in Dubrovnik, we hired a taxi service to take us the 100 km (65 miles) to Kotor, Montenegro, where we spent six nights in the first week of October. It cost about $130 more than taking a…