September 19 – October 10, 2020 Having returned to the US and officially retired - but hobbled from travel overseas for a time due to Covid 19 concerns – we have turned to domestic destinations for the near future. We’ll have to set the “abroad” part of our travels aside for now. This trip was …
Februay 7 – 14, 2020 “If earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.” Napolean Bonaparte Our time in the Middle East is drawing to a close. We looked around for the best “must go” vacation left in the area. After discussing with several people, the resounding answer was – Turkey. From the …
November 28 – December 3, 2019 “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth.” Bhudda Bhutan was the destination for this trip to my 32nd country. This was another Meetup trip with Trekkup-Dubai. This group of 24 trekkers was a little larger than the usual group, but with 13 countries represented it was as …
“And I think to myself…. what a wonderful world.” Louis Armstrong This trip was another excellent opportunity to maximize our travel experience from the UAE – barely enough time to watch an in-flight movie. We chose this destination based on feedback from some of our travelling friends. These countries would be unlikely as stand-alone destinations …
August 22-24, 2019 “The world is full of obvious things which nobody ever observes.” Sherlock Holmes Oman amazes. I’ll just start with that. Before I came to the Middle East, I could have told you everything I knew about Oman in less than a minute, and half of that would have been wrong. This was …
August 6-13. 2019 “There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.” Buddha As we begin to approach the end of our time in the United Arab Emirates, we have started looking around the travel landscape to identify those spots where there is a real advantage to travelling from here instead of the USA. …
June 20-22, 2019 It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” Earnest Hemingway I noted this trip on the Trekkup-Dubai calendar a couple of months earlier, but just wasn’t sure less than two weeks was going to be enough recovery time from an …
June 2 – 8, 2019 “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” Aldous Huxley I can’t remember when the first time was that I saw pictures of topless women walking around in public. It was either an article about the Woodstock concert in my dad’s Life magazine, or pictures in …
April 24-27, 2019 “The world is big, and I’d like to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” John Muir This was a short trip, just a long weekend arranged through Trekkup Dubai (www.meetup.com/trekkup), one of two Meetups we belong to here. I had two goals I was able to meet on …
April 12-19, 2019 “You only get so many springtimes, better not waste them” – JD Schlandt France was the destination for our tenth trip together out of the country since we arrived in the United Arab Emirates. Each trip is different, and we weigh the pros and cons of self-travel versus using different tour group …