Category: Travel Stories

A post cruise Stay at Spain’s Costa Brava

In the afternoon of an exhausting pick-pocket experience in Barcelona’s train station, our eyes lit up seeing the Aqua Promenade and Spa Hotel Resort in Pineda de Mar – our hotel for the next seven nights. TJ made a great choice there. The radiant lady at check in told us in perfect English that we …

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We Think We Have Time

  Thinking we have Time is possibly the biggest mistake we make in life. The decision to retire after 7 season was made and announced a year earlier, but with the reality of season 2025 at the Beaver Island Lodge coming to an end, the naked truth was also that we had to get rid …

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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 28 Day Nightmare Cruise in the Pacific in 2023

Cruising was still relatively new to us. The previous year (2022) we embarked on a Regal Princess Transatlantic Cruise,  which resulted in so much fun that before reaching Barcelona, we decided to add a Mediterranean extension that would take us to Istanbul, the Greek Islands and ports in Italy. Thirty days on the ocean, We …

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A Full Week of Fun, Family and Friends

Happy Birthday Tara Jeabet

We had a Full Week of Fun, Family and Friends planned around the birthday of my youngest one. Thursday: July 27th Early this morning we started our trek towards Michigan to visit with my youngest daughter and her sweet family. Our first stop though was Nashville, to visit with our best friends and spend the …

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