After the 2024 election, I left Twitter. Elon Musk’s acquiring of the platform and subsequent turning it into a right-wing disinformation center was too much for me, and I just couldn’t continue. I joined Bluesky. (By the way, if you are on that platform, please find me here. And if you aren’t on it, please…
After a fairly insane start to 2025 that saw me visit Guatemala, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Morocco, Tunisia, and Canada within the first six months, the summer is mainly about catching up on life. Part of that is seeing friends, and lucky for my travel schedule, some of them live domestically in some places that…
If it seems like you read something like this, maybe only a year ago, it is because you did. In 2024, A and I went to Toronto, my first time in Canada’s largest city. We visited family, but I was also able to take some time to see a bit of the place. And wow,…
I make two trips a year (if possible) to the Cincinnati area to see my father and his wife. Normally, those are fairly quick three-day turnarounds, where I might have a chance to see something in the Queen City, but not always. This year, for my spring trip to visit him, I’m making a “thing”…
In March of 2020, I was supposed to visit Marrakech as part of my Spain and Portugal adventure. It was to be my first time in Morocco, and my first time on the African continent. Well, that didn’t happen, for obvious reasons. Covid forced the early termination of that trip, and it has taken me…
As many of you know, my aunt and I have been trying to do yearly trips together. For the past couple years, we have taken tours with Overseas Adventure Travel (OAT), first to Ireland and then to Sicily. This year, we are off with them again, this time to Costa Rica. Guided tours are not…
Lots of people have been to the Bahamas. I’m one of them, and like a large percentage of them, I was there as part of a cruise. It was lovely. Others go for the resorts, clean beaches, blue waters. Those are also lovely. Well, I’m looking for a different Bahamian experience. I’ll be in the…
It’s always nice when my first trip of the year is in early January. It’s even nicer when it is a return trip to one of my favorite destinations from the earlier days of The Royal Tour: Guatemala. Back in 2019, I spent about a week and a half in Guatemala, splitting that time between…
I was here once, on a day trip via a ferry from Seattle, back when I was probably 8 or 9. I went to Butchart Gardens, and if I did anything else, I don’t remember. Of course, that was back when a drivers license got you into Canada, and such a day trip was much…
And just like that, my time in Scotland is coming to a close and the next and final segment of my 2024 Europe trip is about to begin. When I asked A what she would want this year’s “other” focus area to be (after Scotland), she immediately said Greece. She has never been, and my…