Tag: El Camino de Santiago
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Family in London and Paris
Our greatest joy over our last seven years of travel has been visiting our extended family and having them come to visit us at our various homes around the world. We have a standing offer to all of our children and grandchildren for unlimited all expense paid trips to visit us wherever we may be.…
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Ed & Andrea in Amsterdam
Ed and Andrea Conley are a couple that we try to get together with every time we are in New England on one of our three month breaks and they have a standing invitation to visit us anywhere in the world that we happen to be. Unfortunately, their lives are so busy that they have…
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Hönö with Preben & Sophie
We first met Preben Pedersen in Estella Spain on September 28 2022, the third night of our second Camino when we walked from Pamplona to Santiago de Compostela. We were in a nice modern hotel that did our laundry and provided dinner in their dining room. The dining room was sparsley filled with five other…
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Joel & Lacey in Amsterdam
Joel is Jim’s nephew, son of his next older brother David. Joel and Lacey live in Denver Colorado and are very active weekend hikers and sometimes tandem bikers. Joel was a serious bicycle racer in a past life. They visited us in San Diego over this past Christmas but this is their first excursion out…
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Peggy and Debbie in Amsterdam
After a great first day in Rotterdam and finally a good nights sleep, these two ladies have only three full days left to explore Amsterdam. They have tickets for Anne Frank house museum, the Gardens of Keukenhof, Van Gogh and Rijksmuseum.
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Return to Leiden
On our first brief visit to Leiden to see the grave of Jan Steen we were thwarted by an early closure of the church as they were setting up for a huge sold out choral performance that evening. Since we had nothing scheduled for Sunday March 30 we decided to return to Leiden for further…
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Family in San Diego and Phoenix
Jim’s mother was born in Pontiac Michigan but her family drove across country to San Diego sometime in the early 1920’s as her younger sister Clela was born in San Diego in 1925. Jim remembers visiting his grandparents Fuller and their oldest son Robert at their home on Ohio Street in the North Park section…
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San Diego with Maeve
Maeve was a neighbor of ours in Boston living in the penthouse of the brownstone next to ours in Boston. We don’t really remember exactly when we met her as she kind of snuck into our lives, first as the girlfriend of our next door neighbor John Greene and then as his wife. We have…
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San Diego with Tom and Donna
Tom and Donna Quirk have been visiting us on our travels ever since our very first venture to Paris in 2017. They are such easy and fun houseguests as they are completely self sufficient and they research and plan new adventures for us to enjoy together. Donna is very active and will go out running or walking…
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San Diego, Barrio Logan and the Botanical Garden
We love our house guests, but we also love our down time by ourselves when we tend to explore less touristy parts of cities and find our off the beaten path treasures. We have only two days to ourselves after Jenn and Rob but we make the most of them.
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San Diego with Jen and Rob
As we have said many times, the leading joy of our itinerant lifestyle is having family and friends come to visit. That being said, the ultimate joy is having our eldest child and husband visit. Jennifer and Rob provide us with a home base in Newport Rhode Island where we keep our clothes and forty boxes of…
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San Diego with Joel and Lacey
One of the real joys of our itinerant lifestyle is the pleasure of welcoming friends and family into our various homes and then being able to explore our new city while also reconnecting our longstanding relationships. Joel is the son of Jim’s brother David and is one of a host of nieces and nephews that we…
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San Diego
Our winter stays have been the most challenging to date as we are looking for a desirable city with a perfect climate, 55-75℉ or 15-25°C. We are not interested in beach resorts but really need the big city. Our winters to date have been spent in Tel Aviv, Mexico City, Seville, San Miguel de Allende and New…
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El Camino de Santiago, from Baiona to Santiago
We have now walked for eight days and had two days off and are looking forward to six more days of walking to Santiago de Compostela with two 16 mile days scheduled. It has been just over two months since our last day on the Camino de Santiago and the memories and emotions still bring…
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Caminho Português, From Portugal to Spain.
After a nice day off in Viana do Castelo we only have 9 more days of walking with one more day off. Bill is taking a sick day today and will be taking a taxi to our next destination. Tomorrow we start our last six walking days with no more planned rest days. One more…