After seven days on the Atlantic, the time had arrived for a day at Port of Call Madeira, Portugal’s Year-round Resort Island. The weather had been pretty good, so the island of Madeira was on the schedule. A great indicator on a cruise ship that you’re nearing land is that you all at once see …
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Feb 10 2022
Caught on Beaver Island as Covid 19 becomes a global pandemic
After a couple of years globetrotting as interim innkeepers, we decided in 2019, to reply to a job offer on the website workingcouples.com, for a seasonal management job on Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan. Boutique Hotel Beaver Island Lodge with 14 rooms and suites and a separate log cabin was looking for operational managers …
Mar 31 2020
AirBNB’ing Our Stomping Grounds on St.Martin
For our winter travels we decided this year on a monthlong Airbnb’ing our Stomping Grounds on St.Martin in the West Indies. We left our life on St.Maarten where we had met in 2004, during the Great Recession in 2008/09 as the economy had decimated tourism and consequently our internet related marketing and promotion businesses. Han …
Jan 30 2020
Two Weeks in Portugal’s Algarve Region
It was early January 2020 – Covid 19 was just an inch away from stopping the world in its travel tracks – and we were in the Netherlands visiting our family and being that it was winter, it was very cold, dreary and damp. Typical weather for Holland in the early days of the year. …

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