2020 Barbados
In fear of growing a set of gills with this year’s record rainfall, we decide…
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2019 New Zealand
With our trip to New Zealand’s South Island first requiring a stop in Brisbane Australia’s…
2018 Cuba
Following a post-midnight arrival, we taxi through blackness to our lodging, and after some knackering…
2018 Vietnam
February is an uninspiring month weather-wise to say the least; short on both days and…
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”. The ever so…
2016 Australia
It’s almost Friday midnight as we hurtle down the twinkling runway and up into an…
2014 Nicaragua
November has spilled over into December, and with all ten travel-toes itching to tread new…
2014 Costa Rica
The local L.S.D. (long steady drizzle) has me once again ‘tripping’, and this time my tantalizing…
2014 Vietnam & Bali
Seeking freedom from the frustrating frost, and forsaking February’s frigidity, finds us fancying a fix…
2013 Croatia
Knowing there must be more to Croatia than the fact it was formerly a part…
2013 Thailand & Laos
With the festive season almost upon us, it’s time to Thai one on. From Bangkok…
2012 Myanmar
It’s December, and time for this Canadian sexagenarian to stop shaking like a hypothermic Chihuahua….
2012 New Zealand
Maoris and Kauris, vines and wines, rolling green hills and roads with thrills, roundabouts causing…
2011 Austria & Slovenia
With passports desirous of another smudge, we’re off to Europe on a September sabbatical; keen…
2010 Belize
With the arrival of winter, I Belize it’s time to deposit myself somewhere where the…
2009 Laos
It’s December, it’s cold, and it’s time for a sun-drenched elsewhere. So, for the ‘I’ve…
2008 Panama
With Central America again beckoning, this winters respite is going to be a flash in…
2008 Hong Kong, Macau, Bali
With the season-of-soak stepping all over our Zen, the habitual lust for wandering in warmer…
2007 Italy, France, Monaco, Belgium
Christine has always had a travel itch for Paris, and thought it would be a…
2006 Singapore, Bali
With the ground painted white with winters frost and the last hardy leaves clinging desperately…
2005 Amsterdam, South Africa, Swaziland
Christine and I once again are trading the winter chills of Canuckistan for some far-flung…
2005 Vietnam, Thailand
Bitten by that persistent, perennial, and perpetual travel bug, we find ourselves being drawn like seagulls to…
2004 Melaque
For a special anniversary next week we’re off to Melaque; a little piece of seaside…
2004 Bali
With a growing aversion to weather more suited to growing mushrooms, it’s time for the…
2003 Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Obviously our thirst for the east has not yet ceased, as once again we find…
2002 Singapore, Malacca, Bali
Asia has for many years been our drug of choice as self-confirmed ‘Asiaholics’; even though…
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 arrive in Patong, Thailand, and checking into a…
2000 Vietnam
Foreign travel often has a tendency to explode our assumptions; turning everything we take for…
2000 Run Across Vietnam
Ultramarathoner: ‘a person who derives great personal satisfaction from experiences that include, but are not…
1993 Thailand, Sumatra, Bali, Hong Kong
Our fingernails are embedded deep into the upholstery as our moronic Bangkok taxi driver races…
1991 Borneo, Sulawesi, Bali, Irian Jaya
This year, in an attempt to mitigate the chills of winter we’re leaving western civilization…
1988 Turkey, Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Morocco
It’s April 1988, and our travels start out in Istanbul with a bang; in fact…
1985 Hong Kong China, Tibet, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia
Peering down from the fifth floor window of our dilapidated, pigmy-size room, we watch people…
1981 Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica
Ever since childhood, stories of exotic creatures and primitive tribes have fueled my burning desire…