Category: Family and Friends

The Road Leading Up to our 2025 International Travels

This offseason had to be scheduled a bit different since TJ needed some facial skin procedures as a result of cancerous spots. Since we did not know the length of the recovery process we decided to have the procedure done early in November in Petoskey, so that everything could properly heal prior to traveling.  Less …

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A Second Winter on Beaver Island Michigan

Remembering the good times we had during our first winter on Beaver Island during Covid, and the fact that we have made deep friendships with some other “islanders”, combined again with the fact that it had been an exhausting vacation season at the Beaver Island Lodge, AND the fresh memory of our disastrous Pacific cruise, …

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The 2023 Winter Season Had Other Travel Plans

Traveling sometime puts things upside down and this winter’s travel season 2022/23 had a divergent plan for us in mind. At least for the first part of our six months winter vacation. We did the usual visits to kids and grandkids in Michigan, friends in Tennessee and Georgia,  in the snow bunny route south to …

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A Fourteen Day Trans-Atlantic Princess Cruise

A Fourteen day trans-atlantic Princess cruise was on the menu, now that a land vacation seemed out of the question because of Covid concerns and different international procedures. Beyond a 5 days Bahama’s cruise on Carnival in 2016, we had not done much cruising except for some Caribbean Tallship Trips when Windjammer Barefoot Charters operated …

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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 …

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