Tag: cruising

10 Ways to Make Traveling with a Companion Companionable
I’ve always thought that renovating a house or traveling together are true tests of compatibility. We’ve done a lot of house renovation, and now we’ve been traveling together for over a year. That means spending time together 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Here are some suggestions that […]

How Can We Afford to Travel? or How Can You Afford Not to Travel!
This is a question we are often asked “How can you afford to travel?” We’ve learned one of the secrets is slow travel. Generally speaking, transportation is the most expensive and least flexible cost of travel. Once you decide to go to a specific place that is some distance from where […]

An UN-Birthday Party
Deena and I were west-bound on a trans-Pacific cruise that just happened to cross the International Dateline the day before my birthday. Going in that direction, it’s the next day when you cross the line. So the next day of the cruise was the day AFTER my birthday. Deena tried […]

It’s All About the Journey, Not the Destination
One of the questions we are often asked is how we decide where we will go next. We don’t plan very far in advance so we can seldom say where it might be. One determining factor is traveling inexpensively. There’s a Google app for that. Google Flights delivers a map […]