Retirement = Some travel

After more than eight years of retirement travel, visiting places that we both longed to see, we’ve now slowed the pace a bit. We began in northern California, followed by Barcelona, Morocco (Sidi Ifni, Oualidia, Fez), Portugal (Sesimbra), northern Norway (Tjeldoya), Scotland (Edinburgh, Dalbeattie, Invergordon, Orkney), and in 2017 we added Italy (Rome; Venice; Florence; Salerno; Sciacca, Sicily) and Ireland (Dingle, Bundoran). In 2018 we traveled around South America stopping in Ecuador, Colombia, and Aruba, as well as taking in new places in Peru like Ayacucho and Peru’s north coast. During 2019 we spent two months in New Zealand and six months in Australia. 2020 was scheduled for Greece, Vienna, England, and Croatia. After we got to the US just before the Covid lockdowns, we spent time in Lombard, IL, Ohio, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana. We waited the pandemic in Pacific Grove, CA, for eight months, then visited Bainbridge Island, WA, and the Big Island of Hawaii. Normally, we spend our winters (November-March) in Peru, but not in 2020-21 during Covid. We rented a house in Eureka, CA, though we returned to Peru in November of 2021 for three months, going back to the US in mid-February as a result of revised visa rules that only let us stay 3 months. By the end of 2022 we sold our wonderful house in Peru. We’re still traveling, check out the blog for 2023 destinations. If you have a comment based on your own travels, we’d like to hear it, we can compare notes as we go.