Well its been a while but I’m final­ly get­ting back to look at our site. How time flies when you’re hav­ing fun. 

Keep­ing a watch­ful eye on the Coro­n­avirus out­break both here in the US and in Europe where we have a trip planned in May. So far we have not can­celled any plans but we’ll see how things pan out in the next cou­ple of weeks. It’s the first time this has hap­pened to our plans in many years of travel.

So far in the Hous­ton area things seem to be under con­trol but it’s only a mat­ter of time before we have a num­ber of cas­es here. We’ll keep our fin­gers crossed.

2018 High­lights is now active on the site. We hope you have as much fun look­ing through our trav­els as we did get­ting it all togeth­er. Its a lot of work but for us a great way to reflect and sum­ma­rize our year. Can’t believe its anoth­er year gone!!

Hap­py 2019!

We made it back home after a love­ly trip to the UK for an ear­ly Christ­mas cel­e­bra­tion with fam­i­ly & friends. We’ll be post­ing our high­light reel of 2018 in the near future–stay tuned.

Stephen.

We’ve removed our hol­i­day let­ters from the site and will post 2017 at the end of the year!  Should you wish to see the 2016 let­ter please let us know using the con­tact form on the site and we’ll arrange it.

Its been a while since we trav­elled and its good to be post­ing some­thing here again.  We have some plans for the com­ing months which should keep us post­ing some more in the Spring/Summer ahead.

We took a 10 day cruise from San Fran­cis­co down the California/Mexican coast­line.  Stephen had nev­er been to Mex­i­co and was keen to see the beach­es and towns on our trip.

A Google Map of the trip is below although we sailed down the coast rather than drove, thank goodness!

San Francisco

Always a fun place to vis­it, we were for­tu­nate to spend a cou­ple of days in the city pri­or to get­ting on the ship.   The weath­er was amaz­ing­ly sun­ny and warm for our depar­ture and we sailed right under the Gold­en Gate Bridge on the way out to sea!  What a thrill.  You could almost touch the under­side of the bridge from our van­tage point right on top of the ship and although our pho­tos were not as good as the real thing we were so lucky to have  a sun­ny clear day do see it (unlike when we returned!).

Leav­ing San Francisco 

Approach­ing the bridge 

Can see the whites of their eyes now 

Marin in the background 

And we’re under 

Good­bye Gold­en Gate 

Puerto Vallarta

After three days lazy sail­ing down the Cal­i­for­nia and Baja coasts our first port of call was Puer­to Val­lar­ta where we arrived at 7:30am.  We spent a great morn­ing with friends John & Sandy from Michi­gan who were return­ing home from Puer­to the same day we vis­it­ed.  They were able to show us the sites and ori­en­tate (using the UK ver­sion of the word here as opposed to the US ‘ori­ent’.  Check out here for more info on the dif­fer­ence)  to the town before leav­ing which was real­ly nice for us.

We’re here! 

Fun horse cul­ture in the city 

Anoth­er horse 

And again 

I think the folks were small­er in these days 

Love­ly mosaic 

Local entertainers 

Some love­ly doors in the city 

The fly­ing cow–gues which farm girl took this one 

Anoth­er inter­est­ing beach statue 

With our friends Sandy & John 

Remain­ing ports vis­it­ed will be added soon.…..