2022 Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland
With the Covid pandemic having mothballed travel for what seems an eternity, Christine and I…
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2020 Barbados
Fearful of growing a set of gills in this winter’s record rainfall has led to…
2019 New Zealand
Headed to New Zealand we stop for a few days in Australia’s sunny capital of…
2018 Cuba
Taxiing through the black of night to our lodging after a midnight arrival, a knackering…
2018 Vietnam
Short on both days and rays, February is a most uninspiring month with the cold,…
2017 Japan
Having always had a Yen to experience the gardens and culture of Japan, this winter’s…
2017 Spain & Portugal
“Please make sure your tray table is in its upright locked position” is the familiar…
2016 Australia
With a boundless affinity for the sun, this winter we are chasing it half a…
2014 Nicaragua
Always keen to probe the globe for sunnier climes during the stranglehold of winter, this…
2014 Costa Rica
Once again the local L.S.D. has me ‘tripping’, and tropical tendencies arising from the ‘long…
2014 Vietnam & Bali
Forsaking February’s frigidity and fancying freedom from a frustrating frost finds us focused on a…
2013 Croatia
Knowing there must be more to Croatia other than it was previously a part of…
2013 Thailand & Laos
With Christmas fast approaching we travel from Bangkok 200 km south to the quiet little…
2012 Myanmar
December in Canada is so damn cold that dogs need to be chiseled off the…
2012 New Zealand
Maoris and Kauris, rolling green hills and landscape that thrills, roundabouts causing doubts, vines and…
2011 Austria & Slovenia
With passports desirous of another smudge we’re off on a September sabbatical to spend our…
2010 Belize
With Canada now so cold that our sweaters are in need of sweaters, I’m desperately…
2009 Laos
It’s December, it’s cold, and it’s time for a sun-grilled elsewhere. With the cordial climate…
2008 Panama
Wanting to liberate ourselves from the Canadian winter’s Fifty Shades of Grey, the delicious climate…
2008 Hong Kong, Macau, Bali
With global gallivanting our therapy for the season-of-soak stepping all over our Zen, this year’s…
2007 Italy, France, Monaco, Belgium
Having always had a travel itch for Paris, Christine decides it would be a wonderful…
2006 Singapore, Bali
This winter we’re removing the robotic regularity of routine to reward ourselves with a little…
2005 Amsterdam, South Africa, Swaziland
Seeking to put a little extra flash in the dash between the dates on our…
2005 Vietnam
Bitten by that persistent, perennial, and perpetual travel bug we’re drawn like bees to blossoms,…
2004 Melaque
Swapping business suits for bathing suits, Christine and I are off to sunny Mexico for…
2004 Bali
With an aversion to damp winter weather better suited to growing mushrooms it’s time for…
2003 Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
With our thirst for the east not yet ceased we once again find ourselves exploring…
2002 Singapore, Malacca, Bali
Though many times over many years we’ve tried to conquer our addiction, Asia remains our…
2001 Mojave Deathrace
JUNE 9/10 2001 Welcome to our Millennium Race, we hope you survive it! This is…
2000 Thailand, Bali
With droopy eyelids at half-mast I check into a hotel in Patong, Thailand at 1:30…
2000 Vietnam
Foreign travel often has a tendency to explode our assumptions and turn everything we take…
2000 Run Across Vietnam
Ultramarathoner: ‘a person who derives great personal satisfaction from experiences that include, but are not…
1993 Thailand, Sumatra, Bali
Fearing the worst, our white-knuckled fingers are imbedded in the taxi’s upholstery and our feet…
1991 Borneo, Sulawesi, Bali, Irian Jaya
Flirting with the globe in search of the unusual, Christine and I have opted for…
1988 Turkey, Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Morocco
It’s April of 1988 and our travels start out in Istanbul’s Yucelt Hostel with a…
1985 Hong Kong China, Tibet, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia
The wingtip seeming to caress clothes strung over the balconies of towering apartments, and passengers…
1981 Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica
Ever since childhood, stories of exotic creatures and primitive tribes have fueled a yearning to…