We Begin Our Journey...

We begin our journey here on Blogspot trying to figure how this animal works. This exercise was started to share with friends an relatives our travel experiences and adventures that we are able to enjoy in our retirement. Basically we enjoy traveling around the country by car, motorcycle, and boat. In 2008, we embarked on a seven-week, 12,400 mile, 29 state motorcycle trip around the country and into Canada and during which we visited 24 U.S. National Parks. We were not blogging at that point, and in fact lost our computer on the third day of the trip in Big Bend National Park, TX. Unbelievably we got the computer back (yes, there are decent people out there!) after the trip, but were unable to share our experiences with everyone. Through these pages we hope to revisit our ride and share images and memorable moments with everyone.

Additionally, in April, 2009 we purchased a boat with the intention of traveling around the coastal and inland waters of the eastern portion of the U.S. in what is called America's Great Loop. This is basically a 6,000 mile plus boat ride which we plan to cover over a nine-month period in 2011. While we have owned boats for a number of years, our purchase represented a significantly larger boat and one with all sorts of "systems" that we are currently immersed in learning about in addition to trying to fathom what is involved in a boating adventure of this nature. We will share our plans and preparations as this baby unfolds.

Being retired allows us to take off on various excursions and some of the more memorable trips may make their way onto these pages. We hope it doesn't resemble watching old time vacation films, and will try to keep things as interesting as possible. However, if it does become tedious you can comment or choose to opt out. On the other hand, we are both hoping that this does not become drudgery in trying to maintain this blog. So bear with us and cut us some slack as we try and put on a show.